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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 28 October 2008
Tuesday
Lunar date
农历戊子年九月三十
戊子 (Wuzi) · Year of the Rat · 壬戌 辛丑
Nayin Earth on the Wall
Solar term
Frost's Descent
Pentad · cǎo mù huáng luò
Next solar term · Start of Winter 2008-11-07
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Making nets · Building livestock pens · Avoid everything else
Avoid
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- Clash
- Goat · Sha direction east
- Day god
- Black Tortoise · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Balance
- Lunar mansion
- Turtle Beak · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 二黑土
- Fetus god
- 厨灶厕 房内南
- Directions
- Joy southwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 辛不合酱主人不尝 丑不冠带主不还乡
Auspicious stars
tiān dé hé · yuè dé hé · mǔ cāng · fú dé
Inauspicious stars
tiān gāng · sǐ shén · yuè shà · yuè xū · dì náng · yuán wǔ
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 戊子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 己丑 | Vermilion Bird | Burial · Building and repairs |
| 03:00–04:59 | 庚寅 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 05:00–06:59 | 辛卯 | Heavenly Virtue | Building and repairs · Building a stove |
| 07:00–08:59 | 壬辰 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Burial |
| 09:00–10:59 | 癸巳 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Opening for business |
| 11:00–12:59 | 甲午 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Travel · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings |
| 13:00–14:59 | 乙未 | Black Tortoise | |
| 15:00–16:59 | 丙申 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 丁酉 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 19:00–20:59 | 戊戌 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 21:00–22:59 | 己亥 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 庚子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · 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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