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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 12 December 1996
Thursday
Lunar date
农历丙子年十一月初二
丙子 (Bingzi) · Year of the Rat · 庚子 癸未
Nayin Willow Wood
Solar term
Major Snow
Pentad · hǔ shǐ jiāo
Next solar term · Winter Solstice 1996-12-21
Auspicious
Coming-of-age ceremony · Receiving wealth · Digging wells · Digging ponds · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Placing the bed · Trading · Signing contracts · Hunting · Making nets · Haircut · Draining water
Avoid
Installing doors · Breaking ground · Breaking ground for a grave · Funeral procession · Burial · Putting on mourning clothes
- Clash
- Ox · Sha direction west
- Day god
- Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Danger
- Lunar mansion
- Well · auspicious
- Nine star
- 二黑土
- Fetus god
- 房床厕 外西北
- Directions
- Joy southeast · Wealth south · Fortune west
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 癸不词讼理弱敌强 未不服药毒气入肠
Auspicious stars
tiān ēn · yào ān
Inauspicious stars
yuè shà · yuè xū · yuè hài · sì jī · fù rì · chù shuǐ lóng · Hooked Array
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 壬子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 癸丑 | Vermilion Bird | |
| 03:00–04:59 | 甲寅 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 乙卯 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 丙辰 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 丁巳 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 戊午 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 己未 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 15:00–16:59 | 庚申 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 17:00–18:59 | 辛酉 | Hooked Array | |
| 19:00–20:59 | 壬戌 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 21:00–22:59 | 癸亥 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Opening for business |
| 23:00–23:59 | 甲子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · 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.
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