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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 17 October 2015
Saturday
Lunar date
农历乙未年九月初五
乙未 (Yiwei) · Year of the Goat · 丙戌 丙寅
Nayin Fire in the Furnace
Solar term
Cold Dew
Pentad · què rù dà shuǐ wèi há
Next solar term · Frost's Descent 2015-10-24
Auspicious
Encoffining · Breaking ground for a grave · Opening a grave for reburial · Burial · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Avoid everything else
Avoid
Opening for business · Moving into a new home · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Buying property · Repairing walls · Blocking holes against pests
- Clash
- Monkey · Sha direction north
- Day god
- Controller of Fate · Yellow Path (auspicious)
- Day officer
- Stable
- Lunar mansion
- Stomach · auspicious
- Nine star
- 四绿木
- Fetus god
- 厨灶炉 外正南
- Directions
- Joy southwest · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 丙不修灶必见灾殃 寅不祭祀神鬼不尝
- Folk taboo days
- Monthly taboo day
Auspicious stars
Heavenly Virtue · yuè dé · tiān ēn · yáng dé · sān hé · lín rì · shí yīn · wǔ hé · Controller of Fate · míng fèi duì
Inauspicious stars
yuè yàn · dì huǒ · sǐ qì · jiǔ kǎn · jiǔ jiāo · gū chén
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 戊子 | Azure Dragon | Travel · Taking up a post · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 01:00–02:59 | 己丑 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 03:00–04:59 | 庚寅 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 05:00–06:59 | 辛卯 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 壬辰 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial |
| 09:00–10:59 | 癸巳 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial |
| 11:00–12:59 | 甲午 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 乙未 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 丙申 | Heavenly Prison | |
| 17:00–18:59 | 丁酉 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 19:00–20:59 | 戊戌 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 21:00–22:59 | 己亥 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 23:00–23:59 | 庚子 | Controller of Fate | Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods |
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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