Calendars · Find auspicious days
Chinese almanac (Huangli), 18 November 1978
Saturday
Lunar date
农历戊午年十月十八
戊午 (Wuwu) · Year of the Horse · 癸亥 甲申
Nayin Water in the Spring
Solar term
Start of Winter
Pentad · zhì rù dà shuǐ wèi shèn
Next solar term · Minor Snow 1978-11-23
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Ritual bathing · Making nets · Moving a coffin · Encoffining · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes
Avoid
Placing the bed · Opening for business · Trading · Shipping goods · Burial · Repairing tombs · Weddings · Building a stove
- Clash
- Tiger · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Heavenly Punishment · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Receive
- Lunar mansion
- Root · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 四绿木
- Fetus god
- 占门炉 外西北
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 甲不开仓财物耗散 申不安床鬼祟入房
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars
yuè dé · mǔ cāng · sì xiāng · chú shén · míng fèi
Inauspicious stars
tiān gāng · jié shà · yuè hài · wǔ lí · Heavenly Punishment
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | Heavenly Punishment | |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Burial |
| 09:00–10:59 | 己巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Closing the roof ridge |
| 11:00–12:59 | 庚午 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Black Tortoise | Thanksgiving to the gods · Seeking wealth |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 21:00–22:59 | 乙亥 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 丙子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
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
- 18 November 1978
- Julian calendar
- 5 November 1978 (Julian)
- Chinese calendar (Nongli)
- Wuwu year (Horse), month 10, day 18
- Korean calendar (Dangi)
- Dangi 4311, month 10, day 18
- Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
- Rabjung 16, Earth Horse year, month 9, day 19
- Hebrew calendar
- 18 Heshvan 5739 AM
- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
- 17 Dhu al-Hijjah 1398 AH
- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
- 27 Aban 1357 SH
- Ethiopian calendar
- 9 Hidar 1971 EC
- Coptic calendar
- 9 Hathor 1695 AM
- Indian national calendar (Saka)
- 27 Kartika 1900 Saka
- Japanese era calendar
- Shōwa 53, November 18
- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
- 18 November BE 2521
- Minguo calendar
- 18 November, Minguo 67
- Maya calendars
- 12.18.5.7.8 6 Lamat 1 Keh
- Aztec calendars
- 6 Tochtli (rabbit), 15 Atlcahualo
- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
- 24 Phamenoth, Peret (growth), year 2727 of Nabonassar
- Roman calendar
- Nonae Nov., 2731 AUC