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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 24 December 2016
Saturday
Weddings · Coming-of-age ceremony · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Praying for children · Carving · Consecrating sacred images · Installing the household altar · Travel · Starting school · Building and repairs · Breaking ground · Erecting pillars · Raising the ridge beam · Roofing · Laying foundations · Installing doors · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Digging wells · Building livestock pens · Burial · Breaking ground for a grave · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes
Opening for business · Betrothal gifts · Making agreements · Building a stove · Building temples · Building boats · Setting up the loom
- Clash
- Dog · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Stable
- Lunar mansion
- Root · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 八白土
- Fetus god
- 碓磨栖 外正西
- Directions
- Joy northwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 庚不经络织机虚张 辰不哭泣必主重丧
tiān ēn · sān hé · lín rì · shí yīn · tiān cāng · bù jiàng · shèng xīn
sǐ qì · Heavenly Prison
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 丙子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 01:00–02:59 | 丁丑 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving into a new home · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 03:00–04:59 | 戊寅 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 05:00–06:59 | 己卯 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 07:00–08:59 | 庚辰 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 09:00–10:59 | 辛巳 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 壬午 | Heavenly Punishment | Travel · Thanksgiving to the gods · Seeking wealth |
| 13:00–14:59 | 癸未 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Thanksgiving to the gods |
| 15:00–16:59 | 甲申 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 乙酉 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 19:00–20:59 | 丙戌 | White Tiger | |
| 21:00–22:59 | 丁亥 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 23:00–23:59 | 戊子 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading |
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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