Calendars · Find auspicious days
Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 July 1978
Thursday
Lunar date
农历戊午年六月十六
戊午 (Wuwu) · Year of the Horse · 己未 癸未
Nayin Willow Wood
Solar term
Minor Heat
Pentad · yīng shǐ zhì
Next solar term · Major Heat 1978-07-23
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Travel · Trading · Harvesting honey · Building livestock pens
Avoid
Weddings · Building a stove · Burial · Breaking ground · Lawsuits · Making beams · Felling trees · Digging wells · Breaking ground for a grave · Moving house
- Clash
- Ox · Sha direction west
- Day god
- Black Tortoise · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Establish
- Lunar mansion
- Well · auspicious
- Nine star
- 八白土
- Fetus god
- 房床厕 外西北
- Directions
- Joy southeast · Wealth south · Fortune west
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 癸不词讼理弱敌强 未不服药毒气入肠
Auspicious stars
tiān ēn · shǒu rì · bù jiàng · shèng xīn
Inauspicious stars
yuè jiàn · xiǎo shí · tǔ fǔ · chù shuǐ lóng · yuán wǔ
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 壬子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 癸丑 | Vermilion Bird | |
| 03:00–04:59 | 甲寅 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 乙卯 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 丙辰 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 丁巳 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 戊午 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 己未 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 15:00–16:59 | 庚申 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 17:00–18:59 | 辛酉 | Hooked Array | |
| 19:00–20:59 | 壬戌 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 21:00–22:59 | 癸亥 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Opening for business |
| 23:00–23:59 | 甲子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
The almanac (huangli) is a Chinese folk tradition. Its rules come from historical texts such as the Xieji Bianfang Shu (1739); it is shown here as cultural heritage, not as a prediction or advice.
This day in other calendars
- Gregorian calendar
- 20 July 1978
- Julian calendar
- 7 July 1978 (Julian)
- Chinese calendar (Nongli)
- Wuwu year (Horse), month 6, day 16
- Korean calendar (Dangi)
- Dangi 4311, month 6, day 16
- Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
- Rabjung 16, Earth Horse year, leap month 5, day 15
- Hebrew calendar
- 15 Tammuz 5738 AM
- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
- 14 Shaʿban 1398 AH
- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
- 29 Tir 1357 SH
- Ethiopian calendar
- 13 Hamle 1970 EC
- Coptic calendar
- 13 Epip 1694 AM
- Indian national calendar (Saka)
- 29 Ashadha 1900 Saka
- Japanese era calendar
- Shōwa 53, July 20
- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
- 20 July BE 2521
- Minguo calendar
- 20 July, Minguo 67
- Maya calendars
- 12.18.5.1.7 2 Manik' 0 Xul
- Aztec calendars
- 2 Mazatl (deer), 19 Tepeilhuitl
- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
- 23 Athyr, Akhet (inundation), year 2727 of Nabonassar
- Roman calendar
- Nonae Iul., 2731 AUC