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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 12 September 1981

Saturday · Mid-Autumn Festival · Chuseok

Lunar date
农历辛酉年八月十五
辛酉 (Xinyou) · Year of the Rooster · 丁酉 癸巳
Nayin Long-Flowing Water
Solar term
White Dew
Pentad · hóng yàn lái
Next solar term · Autumn Equinox 1981-09-23
Auspicious

Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Receiving wealth · Hanging a signboard · Planting · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Consecrating sacred images · Demolition · Breaking ground · Placing the bed

Avoid

Weddings · Breaking ground for a grave · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Travel · Moving into a new home · Moving house · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Acquiring livestock · Lawsuits · Burial

Clash
Pig · Sha direction east
Day god
Vermilion Bird · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Success
Lunar mansion
Willow · inauspicious
Nine star
一白水
Fetus god
占房床 房内北
Directions
Joy southeast · Wealth south · Fortune west
Peng Zu's taboos
癸不词讼理弱敌强 巳不远行财物伏藏
Auspicious stars

yuè ēn · sì xiāng · sān hé · lín rì · tiān xǐ · tiān yī · bù jiàng · pǔ hù

Inauspicious stars

chóng rì · Vermilion Bird

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59壬子White TigerWeddings · Burial · Praying for children · Seeking wealth
01:00–02:59癸丑Jade HallWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
03:00–04:59甲寅Heavenly Prison
05:00–06:59乙卯Black TortoiseWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading
07:00–08:59丙辰Controller of FateWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
09:00–10:59丁巳Hooked ArrayWeddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post
11:00–12:59戊午Azure DragonWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed
13:00–14:59己未Bright HallWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
15:00–16:59庚申Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59辛酉Vermilion BirdWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
19:00–20:59壬戌Golden CofferWeddings · Opening for business · Burial
21:00–22:59癸亥Heavenly Virtue
23:00–23:59甲子Golden Coffer

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
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Hebrew calendar
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Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
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Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
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Ethiopian calendar
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Coptic calendar
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Japanese era calendar
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Minguo calendar
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Maya calendars
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Aztec calendars
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Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
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Roman calendar
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