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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 24 March 2012
Saturday
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Consecrating sacred images · Sculpting and painting deities · Praying for blessings · Fasting and Taoist rites · Cutting cloth for garments · Hanging bed curtains · Coming-of-age ceremony · Weddings · Demolition · Breaking ground · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Encoffining · Moving a coffin · Burial · Thanking the Earth God · Praying for children · Starting school · Haircut · Felling trees · Setting up carpentry trestles · Making beams · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Building and repairs · Laying foundations · Setting column bases · Draining water · Taking up a post
Installing doors
- Clash
- Tiger · Sha direction south
- Day god
- White Tiger · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Initiate
- Lunar mansion
- Root · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 九紫火
- Fetus god
- 占门炉 外西北
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth northeast · Fortune southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 甲不开仓财物耗散 申不安床鬼祟入房
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
yuè dé · tiān mǎ · yào ān · jiě shén · chú shén · míng fèi
jié shà · xiǎo hào · wǔ lí · White Tiger
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | Heavenly Punishment | |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Burial |
| 09:00–10:59 | 己巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Closing the roof ridge |
| 11:00–12:59 | 庚午 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Black Tortoise | Thanksgiving to the gods · Seeking wealth |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 21:00–22:59 | 乙亥 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 丙子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
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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