Calendars · Find auspicious days

Chinese almanac (Huangli), 7 December 1996

Saturday

Lunar date
农历丙子年十月廿七
丙子 (Bingzi) · Year of the Rat · 庚子 戊寅
Nayin Earth on the City Wall
Solar term today
Major Snow
Pentad · hé dàn bù míng
Next solar term · Winter Solstice 1996-12-21
Auspicious

Making agreements · Betrothal gifts · Visiting family and friends · Installing machinery · Consecrating sacred images · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Erecting pillars · Raising the ridge beam · Roofing · Laying foundations · Building bridges · Planting · Acquiring livestock · Building livestock pens · Moving a coffin · Encoffining · Opening a grave for reburial · Repairing tombs · Erecting a tombstone · Burial

Avoid

Praying for blessings · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Breaking ground for a grave

Clash
Monkey · Sha direction north
Day god
White Tiger · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Full
Lunar mansion
Stomach · auspicious
Nine star
六白金
Fetus god
房床炉 外正西
Directions
Joy southeast · Wealth north · Fortune north
Peng Zu's taboos
戊不受田田主不祥 寅不祭祀神鬼不尝
Folk taboo days
Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars

shí dé · xiàng rì · yì mǎ · tiān hòu · tiān mǎ · tiān wū · fú dé · fú shēng · wǔ hé

Inauspicious stars

wǔ xū · guī jì · White Tiger

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59壬子Azure DragonWeddings · Opening for business · Burial · Seeking wealth
01:00–02:59癸丑Bright HallWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
03:00–04:59甲寅Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
05:00–06:59乙卯Vermilion BirdTravel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings
07:00–08:59丙辰Golden CofferWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
09:00–10:59丁巳Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post
11:00–12:59戊午White TigerWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
13:00–14:59己未Jade HallWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
15:00–16:59庚申Heavenly Prison
17:00–18:59辛酉Black Tortoise
19:00–20:59壬戌Controller of FateBuilding and repairs · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods
21:00–22:59癸亥Hooked ArrayWeddings · Burial · Closing the roof ridge
23:00–23:59甲子Controller of FateWeddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · 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.

This day in other calendars

Gregorian calendar
7 December 1996
Julian calendar
24 November 1996 (Julian)
Chinese calendar (Nongli)
Bingzi year (Rat), month 10, day 27
Korean calendar (Dangi)
Dangi 4329, month 10, day 27
Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
Rabjung 17, Fire Rat year, month 10, day 27
Hebrew calendar
26 Kislev 5757 AM
Ethiopian calendar
28 Hidar 1989 EC
Coptic calendar
28 Hathor 1713 AM
Indian national calendar (Saka)
16 Agrahayana 1918 Saka
Japanese era calendar
Heisei 8, December 7
Minguo calendar
7 December, Minguo 85
Maya calendars
12.19.3.13.2 9 Ik' 5 Mak
Aztec calendars
9 Ehecatl (wind), 19 Tlacaxipehualiztli
Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
18 Pharmuthi, Peret (growth), year 2745 of Nabonassar
Roman calendar
a.d. VIII Kal. Dec., 2749 AUC