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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 22 December 2017
Friday · Winter Solstice (Dongzhi)
Lunar date
农历丁酉年十一月初五
丁酉 (Dingyou) · Year of the Rooster · 壬子 癸未
Nayin Willow Wood
Solar term today
Winter Solstice
Pentad · qiū yǐn jié
Next solar term · Minor Cold 2018-01-05
Auspicious
Coming-of-age ceremony · Receiving wealth · Digging wells · Digging ponds · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Placing the bed · Trading · Signing contracts · Hunting · Making nets · Haircut · Draining water
Avoid
Installing doors · Breaking ground · Breaking ground for a grave · Funeral procession · Burial · Putting on mourning clothes
- Clash
- Ox · Sha direction west
- Day god
- Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Danger
- Lunar mansion
- Neck · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 二黑土
- Fetus god
- 房床厕 外西北
- Directions
- Joy southeast · Wealth south · Fortune west
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 癸不词讼理弱敌强 未不服药毒气入肠
- Folk taboo days
- Monthly taboo day
Auspicious stars
tiān ēn · yào ān
Inauspicious stars
yuè shà · yuè xū · yuè hài · sì jī · fù rì · chù shuǐ lóng · Hooked Array
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 壬子 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 01:00–02:59 | 癸丑 | Vermilion Bird | |
| 03:00–04:59 | 甲寅 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Trading · Moving into a new home · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 乙卯 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 07:00–08:59 | 丙辰 | White Tiger | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 09:00–10:59 | 丁巳 | Jade Hall | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 戊午 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 13:00–14:59 | 己未 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring) |
| 15:00–16:59 | 庚申 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Taking up a post |
| 17:00–18:59 | 辛酉 | Hooked Array | |
| 19:00–20:59 | 壬戌 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed |
| 21:00–22:59 | 癸亥 | Bright Hall | Weddings · Moving house · Trading · Opening for business |
| 23:00–23:59 | 甲子 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
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
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- Julian calendar
- 9 December 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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- Islamic calendar (Umm al-Qura)
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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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- Aztec calendars
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- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
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- Roman calendar
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