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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 20 September 1997
Saturday
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Visiting family and friends · Betrothal gifts · Weddings · Consecrating sacred images · Sculpting and painting deities · Fasting and Taoist rites · Installing the household altar · Opening for business · Signing contracts · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Encoffining · Moving a coffin · Burial · Taking up a post · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) · Travel · Cutting cloth for garments · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Raising the ridge beam · Setting up the loom · Trading
Moving into a new home · Felling trees
- Clash
- Goat · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Stable
- Lunar mansion
- Willow · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 二黑土
- Fetus god
- 碓磨厕 外东南
- Directions
- Joy northwest · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 乙不栽植千株不长 丑不冠带主不还乡
yuè dé hé · tiān ēn · mǔ cāng · sān hé · shí yīn · jīn táng
sǐ qì · Hooked Array
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 丙子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 丁丑 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 戊寅 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 己卯 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 庚辰 | White Tiger | |
| 09:00–10:59 | 辛巳 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Opening for business |
| 11:00–12:59 | 壬午 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 癸未 | Black Tortoise | |
| 15:00–16:59 | 甲申 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings |
| 17:00–18:59 | 乙酉 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 19:00–20:59 | 丙戌 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 丁亥 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 23:00–23:59 | 戊子 | Azure Dragon | Travel · Taking up a post · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Thanksgiving to the gods |
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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