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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 8 September 2012
Saturday
Lunar date
农历壬辰年七月廿三
壬辰 (Renchen) · Year of the Dragon · 己酉 壬申
Nayin Gold of the Sword Edge
Solar term
White Dew
Pentad · hóng yàn lái
Next solar term · Autumn Equinox 2012-09-22
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Cutting cloth for garments · Coming-of-age ceremony · Weddings · Installing machinery · Demolition · Breaking ground · Laying foundations · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Encoffining · Opening a grave for reburial · Burial · Building a granary · Setting up the loom
Avoid
Placing the bed · Consecrating sacred images · Opening for business · Trading
- Clash
- Tiger · Sha direction south
- Day god
- White Tiger · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Close
- Lunar mansion
- Root · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 四绿木
- Fetus god
- 仓库炉 外西南
- Directions
- Joy south · Wealth south · Fortune northwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 壬不泱水更难提防 申不安床鬼祟入房
- Folk taboo days
- Monthly taboo day
Auspicious stars
sì xiāng · wáng rì · tiān mǎ · wǔ fù · bù jiàng · shèng xīn · chú shén · míng fèi
Inauspicious stars
yóu huò · xuè zhī · wǔ lí · White Tiger
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 庚子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 辛丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 03:00–04:59 | 壬寅 | Heavenly Punishment | |
| 05:00–06:59 | 癸卯 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Burial · Building and repairs · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 07:00–08:59 | 甲辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 乙巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 11:00–12:59 | 丙午 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 丁未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 15:00–16:59 | 戊申 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 己酉 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 19:00–20:59 | 庚戌 | Controller of Fate | Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 21:00–22:59 | 辛亥 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial |
| 23:00–23:59 | 壬子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · 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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