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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 4 April 2008
Friday · Qingming Festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day)
Lunar date
农历戊子年二月廿八
戊子 (Wuzi) · Year of the Rat · 丙辰 甲戌
Nayin Fire on the Mountain
Solar term today
Pure Brightness
Pentad · tóng shǐ huá
Next solar term · Grain Rain 2008-04-20
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Ritual bathing · Cleansing and exorcism · Seeking a doctor · Medical treatment · Pulling down a house · Pulling down walls · Avoid everything else
Avoid
Praying for blessings · Fasting and Taoist rites · Opening for business · Burial
- Clash
- Dragon · Sha direction north
- Day god
- White Tiger · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Destruction
- Lunar mansion
- Ox · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 五黄土
- Fetus god
- 占门栖 外西南
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 甲不开仓财物耗散 戌不吃犬作怪上床
Auspicious stars
tiān mǎ · bù jiàng · fú shēng · jiě shén
Inauspicious stars
yuè pò · dà hào · sì jī · jiǔ kōng · jiǔ kǎn · jiǔ jiāo · White Tiger
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Azure Dragon | |
| 09:00–10:59 | 己巳 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 庚午 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Opening for business · Taking up a post |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Heavenly Virtue | Travel · Taking up a post · Seeking wealth |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 21:00–22:59 | 乙亥 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 丙子 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings |
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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