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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 28 October 2017
Saturday · Double Ninth Festival
Lunar date
农历丁酉年九月初九
丁酉 (Dingyou) · Year of the Rooster · 庚戌 戊子
Nayin Thunderbolt Fire
Solar term
Frost's Descent
Pentad · cǎo mù huáng luò
Next solar term · Start of Winter 2017-11-07
Auspicious
Ritual bathing · Haircut · Coming-of-age ceremony · Placing the bed · Opening for business · Signing contracts · Visiting family and friends · Trading · Receiving wealth · Making nets · Training oxen and horses
Avoid
Moving house · Moving into a new home · Travel · Praying for blessings · Weddings
- Clash
- Horse · Sha direction south
- Day god
- Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Full
- Lunar mansion
- Root · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 九紫火
- Fetus god
- 房床碓 外正北
- Directions
- Joy southeast · Wealth north · Fortune north
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 戊不受田田主不祥 子不问卜自惹祸殃
Auspicious stars
shí dé · mín rì · tiān wū · fú dé · pǔ hù
Inauspicious stars
zāi shà · tiān huǒ · dà shà · guī jì · fù rì · Heavenly Prison
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 壬子 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Opening for business · Burial · Seeking wealth |
| 01:00–02:59 | 癸丑 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Burial · Building and repairs · Closing the roof ridge |
| 03:00–04:59 | 甲寅 | White Tiger | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home |
| 05:00–06:59 | 乙卯 | Jade Hall | Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 07:00–08:59 | 丙辰 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 丁巳 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post |
| 11:00–12:59 | 戊午 | Controller of Fate | |
| 13:00–14:59 | 己未 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Praying for children |
| 15:00–16:59 | 庚申 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 17:00–18:59 | 辛酉 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 19:00–20:59 | 壬戌 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 21:00–22:59 | 癸亥 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 23:00–23:59 | 甲子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · 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.
This day in other calendars
- Gregorian calendar
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- Julian calendar
- 15 October 2017 (Julian)
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- Korean calendar (Dangi)
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- Tibetan calendar (Phugpa)
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- Hebrew calendar
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- Solar Hijri calendar (Persian)
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- Ethiopian calendar
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- Coptic calendar
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- Indian national calendar (Saka)
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- Japanese era calendar
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- Thai solar calendar (Buddhist Era)
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- Minguo calendar
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- Maya calendars
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- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
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- Roman calendar
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