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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 8 July 2012
Sunday
Lunar date
农历壬辰年五月二十
壬辰 (Renchen) · Year of the Dragon · 丁未 庚午
Nayin Earth by the Road
Solar term
Minor Heat
Pentad · wēn fēng zhì
Next solar term · Major Heat 2012-07-22
Auspicious
Repairing walls · Blocking holes against pests · Making nets · Encoffining · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Moving a coffin · Burial · Opening a grave for reburial · Avoid everything else
Avoid
Nothing is favourable
- Clash
- Rat · Sha direction north
- Day god
- Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Close
- Lunar mansion
- Star · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 三碧木
- Fetus god
- 占碓磨 外正南
- Directions
- Joy northwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 庚不经络织机虚张 午不苫盖屋主更张
Auspicious stars
yuè kōng · guān rì · liù hé · míng fèi
Inauspicious stars
tiān lì · zhì sǐ · xuè zhī · wǎng wáng · Heavenly Prison
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 丙子 | Golden Coffer | |
| 01:00–02:59 | 丁丑 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 03:00–04:59 | 戊寅 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 己卯 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 07:00–08:59 | 庚辰 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 09:00–10:59 | 辛巳 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 壬午 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Burial · Building a stove |
| 13:00–14:59 | 癸未 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
| 15:00–16:59 | 甲申 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 乙酉 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
| 19:00–20:59 | 丙戌 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 丁亥 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Burial |
| 23:00–23:59 | 戊子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · 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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