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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 November 1996
Wednesday
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Fasting and Taoist rites · Ritual bathing · Coming-of-age ceremony · Travel · Haircut · Demolition · Cleansing and exorcism · Laying foundations · Breaking ground · Setting column bases · Installing mortars and millstones · Digging ponds · Digging wells · Cleaning the house · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Moving a coffin · Opening a grave for reburial · Erecting a tombstone · Thanking the Earth God
Moving house · Moving into a new home · Installing doors · Making beams · Burial
- Clash
- Rabbit · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Vermilion Bird · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Open
- Lunar mansion
- Chariot · auspicious
- Nine star
- 三碧木
- Fetus god
- 厨灶门 外东南
- Directions
- Joy southwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 辛不合酱主人不尝 酉不会客醉坐颠狂
mǔ cāng · shí yáng · shēng qì · shèng xīn · chú shén · míng fèi
zāi shà · tiān huǒ · sì hào · wǔ lí · Vermilion Bird
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 戊子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 01:00–02:59 | 己丑 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 庚寅 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 05:00–06:59 | 辛卯 | Bright Hall | |
| 07:00–08:59 | 壬辰 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 癸巳 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 11:00–12:59 | 甲午 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 13:00–14:59 | 乙未 | Heavenly Virtue | Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building and repairs · Building a stove |
| 15:00–16:59 | 丙申 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 丁酉 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 19:00–20:59 | 戊戌 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 21:00–22:59 | 己亥 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Burial |
| 23:00–23:59 | 庚子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
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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