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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 16 February 2018
Friday · Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) · Seollal (Korean New Year) · Losar (Tibetan New Year)
Lunar date
农历戊戌年正月初一
戊戌 (Wuxu) · Year of the Dog · 甲寅 己卯
Nayin Earth on the City Wall
Solar term
Start of Spring
Pentad · yú zhì fù bīng
Next solar term · Rain Water 2018-02-19
Auspicious
Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Praying for blessings · Fasting and Taoist rites · Travel · Opening for business · Signing contracts · Breaking ground · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Breaking ground for a grave · Burial
Avoid
Consecrating sacred images · Weddings · Building a stove · Digging wells · Acquiring livestock
- Clash
- Rooster · Sha direction west
- Day god
- Vermilion Bird · Black Path (inauspicious)
- Day officer
- Remove
- Lunar mansion
- Neck · inauspicious
- Nine star
- 四绿木
- Fetus god
- 占大门 外正西
- Directions
- Joy northeast · Wealth north · Fortune south
- Peng Zu's taboos
- 己不破券二比并亡 卯不穿井水泉不香
Auspicious stars
tiān ēn · guān rì · jí qī · bù jiàng · yù yǔ · wǔ hé
Inauspicious stars
dà shí · dà bài · xián chí · Vermilion Bird
Hours of the day
| 00:00–00:59 | 甲子 | Controller of Fate | Weddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial |
| 01:00–02:59 | 乙丑 | Hooked Array | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 03:00–04:59 | 丙寅 | Azure Dragon | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 05:00–06:59 | 丁卯 | Bright Hall | Moving into a new home · Burial · Building and repairs |
| 07:00–08:59 | 戊辰 | Heavenly Punishment | Weddings · Travel · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 09:00–10:59 | 己巳 | Vermilion Bird | Weddings · Travel · Moving house · Moving into a new home |
| 11:00–12:59 | 庚午 | Golden Coffer | Weddings · Travel · Opening for business · Taking up a post |
| 13:00–14:59 | 辛未 | Heavenly Virtue | Weddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business |
| 15:00–16:59 | 壬申 | White Tiger | Weddings · Burial · Praying for children |
| 17:00–18:59 | 癸酉 | Jade Hall | |
| 19:00–20:59 | 甲戌 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Praying for blessings · Burial · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings |
| 21:00–22:59 | 乙亥 | Black Tortoise | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
| 23:00–23:59 | 丙子 | Heavenly Prison | Weddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings |
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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- Hebrew calendar
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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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- Ancient Egyptian civil calendar
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