Calendars · Find auspicious days
Chinese almanac (Huangli), 1 October 1985
Tuesday
Lunar date
农历乙丑年八月十七
乙丑 (Yichou) · Year of the Ox · 乙酉 癸酉
Nayin Gold of the Sword Edge
Solar term
Autumn Equinox
Pentad · zhé chóng pī hù
Next solar term · Cold Dew 1985-10-08
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Travel · Putting on mourning clothes · Removing mourning clothes · Ritual bathing · Encoffining
Avoid
Breaking ground · Coming-of-age ceremony · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Erecting pillars · Raising the ridge beam
- Clash
- Rabbit · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Jade Hall · Yellow Path (auspicious)
- Day officer
- Establish
- Lunar mansion
- Turtle Beak · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 三碧木
- Fetus god
- 房床门 外西南
- Directions
- Joy southeast · Wealth south · Fortune west
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 癸不词讼理弱敌强 酉不会客醉坐颠狂
Auspicious stars
yuè ēn · sì xiāng · guān rì · liù yí · yì hòu · chú shén · chú shén · Jade Hall · míng fèi
Inauspicious stars
yuè jiàn · xiǎo shí · tǔ fǔ · yuè xíng · yàn duì · zhāo yáo · wǔ lí
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 · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 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 | |
| 07:00–08:59 | 丙辰 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 丁巳 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Praying for children |
| 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 · Moving house · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 15:00–16:59 | 庚申 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 17:00–18:59 | 辛酉 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 19:00–20:59 | 壬戌 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 21:00–22:59 | 癸亥 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 甲子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · 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
- 1 October 1985
- Julian calendar
- 18 September 1985 (Julian)
- Chinese calendar (Nongli)
- Yichou year (Ox), month 8, day 17
- Korean calendar (Dangi)
- Dangi 4318, month 8, day 17
- Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
- Rabjung 17, Wood Ox year, month 8, day 17 (repeated)
- Hebrew calendar
- 16 Tishrei 5746 AM
- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
- 16 Muharram 1406 AH
- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
- 9 Mehr 1364 SH
- Ethiopian calendar
- 21 Meskerem 1978 EC
- Coptic calendar
- 21 Thout 1702 AM
- Indian national calendar (Saka)
- 9 Ashvin 1907 Saka
- Japanese era calendar
- Shōwa 60, October 1
- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
- 1 October BE 2528
- Minguo calendar
- 1 October, Minguo 74
- Maya calendars
- 12.18.12.6.17 6 Kab'an 15 Ch'en
- Aztec calendars
- 6 Ollin (movement), 14 Tititl
- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
- 8 Mechir, Peret (growth), year 2734 of Nabonassar
- Roman calendar
- a.d. XIV Kal. Oct., 2738 AUC