Calendars · Find auspicious days
Chinese almanac (Huangli), 17 May 2012
Thursday
Lunar date
农历壬辰年四月廿七
壬辰 (Renchen) · Year of the Dragon · 乙巳 戊寅
Nayin Earth on the City Wall
Solar term
Start of Summer
Pentad · wáng guā shēng
Next solar term · Grain Buds 2012-05-20
Auspicious
Making nets · Cleansing and exorcism · Avoid everything else
Avoid
Nothing is favourable
- Clash
- Monkey · Sha direction north
- Day god
- Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Receive
- Lunar mansion
- Horn · auspicious
- Nine star
- 九紫火
- Fetus god
- 房床炉 外正西
- Directions
- Joy southeast · Wealth north · Fortune north
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 戊不受田田主不祥 寅不祭祀神鬼不尝
- Folk taboo days
- Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars
mǔ cāng · sì xiāng · jìng ān · wǔ hé
Inauspicious stars
tiān gāng · jié shà · yuè hài · tǔ fú · Heavenly Prison
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 壬子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial · Seeking wealth |
| 01:00–02:59 | 癸丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 03:00–04:59 | 甲寅 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 05:00–06:59 | 乙卯 | Vermilion Bird | Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post · Praying for blessings |
| 07:00–08:59 | 丙辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 丁巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 11:00–12:59 | 戊午 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 己未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 庚申 | Heavenly Prison | |
| 17:00–18:59 | 辛酉 | Black Tortoise | |
| 19:00–20:59 | 壬戌 | Controller of Fate | Building and repairs · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 21:00–22:59 | 癸亥 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Burial · Closing the roof ridge |
| 23:00–23:59 | 甲子 | 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.
This day in other calendars
- Gregorian calendar
- 17 May 2012
- Julian calendar
- 4 May 2012 (Julian)
- Chinese calendar (Nongli)
- Renchen year (Dragon), month 4, day 27
- Korean calendar (Dangi)
- Dangi 4345, leap month 3, day 27
- Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
- Rabjung 17, Water Dragon year, month 3, day 27
- Hebrew calendar
- 25 Iyar 5772 AM
- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
- 26 Jumada al-Akhirah 1433 AH
- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
- 28 Ordibehesht 1391 SH
- Ethiopian calendar
- 9 Ginbot 2004 EC
- Coptic calendar
- 9 Pashons 1728 AM
- Indian national calendar (Saka)
- 27 Vaishakha 1934 Saka
- Japanese era calendar
- Heisei 24, May 17
- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
- 17 May BE 2555
- Minguo calendar
- 17 May, Minguo 101
- Maya calendars
- 12.19.19.7.2 7 Ik' 5 Sip
- Aztec calendars
- 7 Ehecatl (wind), 4 Ochpaniztli
- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
- 28 Thoth, Akhet (inundation), year 2761 of Nabonassar
- Roman calendar
- a.d. IV Non. Mai., 2765 AUC