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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 3 December 2005

Saturday

Lunar date
农历乙酉年十一月初三
乙酉 (Yiyou) · Year of the Rooster · 丁亥 辛酉
Nayin Pomegranate Wood
Solar term
Minor Snow
Pentad · bì sè ér chéng dōng
Next solar term · Major Snow 2005-12-07
Auspicious

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

Avoid

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
Willow · inauspicious
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
Folk taboo days
Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars

mǔ cāng · shí yáng · shēng qì · shèng xīn · chú shén · míng fèi

Inauspicious stars

zāi shà · tiān huǒ · sì hào · wǔ lí · Vermilion Bird

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59戊子Controller of FateWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
01:00–02:59己丑Hooked ArrayWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
03:00–04:59庚寅Azure DragonWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home
05:00–06:59辛卯Bright Hall
07:00–08:59壬辰Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
09:00–10:59癸巳Vermilion BirdWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed
11:00–12:59甲午Golden CofferWeddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial
13:00–14:59乙未Heavenly VirtuePraying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building and repairs · Building a stove
15:00–16:59丙申White TigerWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59丁酉Jade HallWeddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings
19:00–20:59戊戌Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring)
21:00–22:59己亥Black TortoiseWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Burial
23:00–23:59庚子Heavenly PrisonWeddings · 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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