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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 1 May 1988
Sunday
Lunar date
农历戊辰年三月十六
戊辰 (Wuchen) · Year of the Dragon · 丙辰 丙辰
Nayin Earth in the Sand
Solar term
Grain Rain
Pentad · dài shèng jiàng yú sāng
Next solar term · Start of Summer 1988-05-05
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Travel · Training oxen and horses · Cleaning the house · Avoid everything else
Avoid
Consecrating sacred images · Felling trees · Burial · Breaking ground for a grave
- Clash
- Dog · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Azure Dragon · Yellow Path (auspicious)
- Day officer
- Establish
- Lunar mansion
- Emptiness · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 五黄土
- Fetus god
- 厨灶栖 外正东
- Directions
- Joy southwest · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 丙不修灶必见灾殃 辰不哭泣必主重丧
Auspicious stars
yuè kōng · sì xiāng · shǒu rì · yù yǔ · Azure Dragon
Inauspicious stars
yuè jiàn · xiǎo shí · tǔ fǔ · yuè xíng
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 戊子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 01:00–02:59 | 己丑 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 03:00–04:59 | 庚寅 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
| 05:00–06:59 | 辛卯 | Hooked Array | |
| 07:00–08:59 | 壬辰 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 09:00–10:59 | 癸巳 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 11:00–12:59 | 甲午 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
| 13:00–14:59 | 乙未 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 15:00–16:59 | 丙申 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 丁酉 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 19:00–20:59 | 戊戌 | White Tiger | |
| 21:00–22:59 | 己亥 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 庚子 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Opening for business · 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.
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