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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 12 October 2016
Wednesday · Yom Kippur
Weddings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Consecrating sacred images · Travel · Demolition · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Raising the ridge beam · Placing the bed · Acquiring livestock · Encoffining · Breaking ground for a grave
Moving into a new home · Moving house · Digging wells · Haircut · Felling trees · Trading · Opening for business · Building a stove
- Clash
- Rooster · Sha direction west
- Day god
- Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Initiate
- Lunar mansion
- Wall · auspicious
- Nine star
- 三碧木
- Fetus god
- 仓库门 外正南
- Directions
- Joy south · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 丁不剃头头必生疮 卯不穿井水泉不香
tiān ēn · liù hé · shèng xīn · wǔ hé · míng fèi duì
dà shí · dà bài · xián chí · xiǎo hào · wǔ xū · Hooked Array
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 庚子 | Controller of Fate | Praying for blessings · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building a stove · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 01:00–02:59 | 辛丑 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Moving house · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 03:00–04:59 | 壬寅 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 05:00–06:59 | 癸卯 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 甲辰 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 09:00–10:59 | 乙巳 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
| 11:00–12:59 | 丙午 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 丁未 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 15:00–16:59 | 戊申 | White Tiger | Moving into a new home · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Building and repairs |
| 17:00–18:59 | 己酉 | Jade Hall | |
| 19:00–20:59 | 庚戌 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 辛亥 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 23:00–23:59 | 壬子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed |
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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