Chinese almanac (Huangli), 24 October 2004

Sunday

Lunar date

农历甲申年九月十一

甲申 (Jiashen) · Year of the Monkey · 甲戌丙子

Nayin Water in the Ravine

Solar term

Frost's Descent

Pentad · chái nǎi jì shòu

Next solar term · Start of Winter 2004-11-07

Auspicious

Betrothal gifts · Making agreements · Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Visiting family and friends · Acquiring livestock · Raising livestock · Exchanging names (betrothal rite) · Moving house · Cleansing and exorcism · Building a privy · Starting school · Laying foundations · Placing the bed · Opening granaries · Shipping goods · Burial · Opening a grave for reburial · Encoffining · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes

Avoid

Moving into a new home · Raising the ridge beam · Fasting and Taoist rites · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Thanking the Earth God

Clash: Horse · Sha direction south
Day god: Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer: Full
Lunar mansion: Emptiness · inauspicious
Nine star: 三碧木
Fetus god: 厨灶碓外西南
Directions: Joy southwest · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
Peng Zu's taboos: 丙不修灶必见灾殃子不问卜自惹祸殃

Auspicious stars

Heavenly Virtue · yuè dé · shí dé · mín rì · tiān wū · fú dé · pǔ hù · míng fèi duì

Inauspicious stars

zāi shà · tiān huǒ · dà shà · guī jì · chù shuǐ lóng · Heavenly Prison

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59	戊子	Golden Coffer	Travel · Taking up a post · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Thanksgiving to the gods
01:00–02:59	己丑	Heavenly Virtue	Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
03:00–04:59	庚寅	White Tiger	Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading
05:00–06:59	辛卯	Jade Hall	Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
07:00–08:59	壬辰	Heavenly Prison	Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed
09:00–10:59	癸巳	Black Tortoise	Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial
11:00–12:59	甲午	Controller of Fate
13:00–14:59	乙未	Hooked Array
15:00–16:59	丙申	Azure Dragon	Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59	丁酉	Bright Hall	Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post
19:00–20:59	戊戌	Heavenly Punishment	Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Burial
21:00–22:59	己亥	Vermilion Bird	Weddings · Travel · Praying for children · Seeking wealth
23:00–23:59	庚子	Heavenly Punishment	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.

This day in other calendars

Gregorian calendar: 24 October 2004
Julian calendar: 11 October 2004 (Julian)
Chinese calendar (Nongli): Jiashen year (Monkey), month 9, day 11
Korean calendar (Dangi): Dangi 4337, month 9, day 11
Tibetan calendar (Phugpa): Rabjung 17, Wood Monkey year, month 9, day 11
Hebrew calendar: 9 Heshvan 5765 AM
Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura): 10 Ramadan 1425 AH
Solar Hijri calendar (Persian): 3 Aban 1383 SH
Ethiopian calendar: 14 Tikimt 1997 EC
Coptic calendar: 14 Paopi 1721 AM
Indian national calendar (Saka): 2 Kartika 1926 Saka
Japanese era calendar: Heisei 16, October 24
Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era): 24 October BE 2547
Minguo calendar: 24 October, Minguo 93
Maya calendars: 12.19.11.13.0 1 Ajaw 3 Sak'
Aztec calendars: 1 Xochitl (flower), 17 Izcalli
Ancient Egyptian civil calendar: 6 Phamenoth, Peret (growth), year 2753 of Nabonassar
Roman calendar: a.d. V Id. Oct., 2757 AUC