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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 8 October 1978
Sunday
Lunar date
农历戊午年九月初七
戊午 (Wuwu) · Year of the Horse · 壬戌 癸卯
Nayin Gold Leaf
Solar term today
Cold Dew
Pentad · hóng yàn lái bīn
Next solar term · Frost's Descent 1978-10-24
Auspicious
Weddings · Making agreements · Betrothal gifts · Travel · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Breaking ground · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Breaking ground for a grave · Burial
Avoid
Opening for business · Taking up a post
- Clash
- Rooster · Sha direction west
- Day god
- Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Initiate
- Lunar mansion
- Hairy Head · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 九紫火
- Fetus god
- 房床门 房内西
- Directions
- Joy southeast · Wealth south · Fortune west
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 癸不词讼理弱敌强 卯不穿井水泉不香
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars
sì xiāng · liù hé · bù jiàng · shèng xīn · wǔ hé · míng fèi duì
Inauspicious stars
dà shí · dà bài · xián chí · xiǎo hào · wǔ xū · Hooked Array
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 壬子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial |
| 01:00–02:59 | 癸丑 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Burial · Praying for children |
| 03:00–04:59 | 甲寅 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 05:00–06:59 | 乙卯 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 07:00–08:59 | 丙辰 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 丁巳 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings |
| 11:00–12:59 | 戊午 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial · Building and repairs |
| 13:00–14:59 | 己未 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 15:00–16:59 | 庚申 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 17:00–18:59 | 辛酉 | Jade Hall | |
| 19:00–20:59 | 壬戌 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 21:00–22:59 | 癸亥 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 23:00–23:59 | 甲子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
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.
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