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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 8 November 1996

Friday

Lunar date
农历丙子年九月廿八
丙子 (Bingzi) · Year of the Rat · 己亥 己酉
Nayin Earth of the Highway
Solar term
Start of Winter
Pentad · shuǐ shǐ bīng
Next solar term · Minor Snow 1996-11-22
Auspicious

Opening for business · Receiving wealth · Travel · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Fasting and Taoist rites · Exchanging names (betrothal rite) · Starting school · Laying foundations · Setting column bases · Buying property · Digging channels · Digging wells · Demolition · Planting · Acquiring livestock · Raising livestock · Breaking ground · Breaking ground for a grave · Opening a grave for reburial

Avoid

Moving house · Moving into a new home · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Encoffining · Burial

Clash
Rabbit · Sha direction east
Day god
Vermilion Bird · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Open
Lunar mansion
Bond · auspicious
Nine star
六白金
Fetus god
占大门 外东北
Directions
Joy northeast · Wealth north · Fortune south
Peng Zu's taboos
己不破券二比并亡 酉不会客醉坐颠狂
Auspicious stars

yuè dé · tiān ēn · mǔ cāng · shí yáng · shēng qì · shèng xīn · chú shén · míng fèi

Inauspicious stars

zāi shà · tiān huǒ · wǔ lí · Vermilion Bird

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59甲子Controller of FateWeddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings
01:00–02:59乙丑Hooked ArrayWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
03:00–04:59丙寅Azure DragonWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
05:00–06:59丁卯Bright Hall
07:00–08:59戊辰Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
09:00–10:59己巳Vermilion BirdWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
11:00–12:59庚午Golden CofferWeddings · Travel · Opening for business · Taking up a post
13:00–14:59辛未Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings
15:00–16:59壬申White TigerWeddings · Travel · Burial · Building and repairs
17:00–18:59癸酉Jade HallWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
19:00–20:59甲戌Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring)
21:00–22:59乙亥Black TortoiseWeddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring)
23:00–23:59丙子Heavenly PrisonWeddings · 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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