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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 2 January 2025

Thursday

Lunar date
农历甲辰年十二月初三
甲辰 (Jiachen) · Year of the Dragon · 丙子 辛未
Nayin Earth by the Road
Solar term
Winter Solstice
Pentad · shuǐ quán dòng
Next solar term · Minor Cold 2025-01-05
Auspicious

Placing the bed · Setting up carpentry trestles · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Sculpting and painting deities · Consecrating sacred images · Travel · Haircut · Felling trees · Making beams · Drilling post holes · Building a privy · Hunting · Breaking ground for a grave · Encoffining · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes · Moving a coffin · Opening a grave for reburial · Repairing tombs · Erecting a tombstone

Avoid

Building a stove · Installing doors · Building bridges · Opening for business · Burial

Clash
Ox · Sha direction west
Day god
Hooked Array · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Danger
Lunar mansion
Well · auspicious
Nine star
八白土
Fetus god
厨灶厕 外西南
Directions
Joy southwest · Wealth east · Fortune southwest
Peng Zu's taboos
辛不合酱主人不尝 未不服药毒气入肠
Folk taboo days
Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day)
Auspicious stars

yào ān

Inauspicious stars

yuè shà · yuè xū · yuè hài · sì jī · Hooked Array

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59戊子Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Moving into a new home
01:00–02:59己丑Vermilion Bird
03:00–04:59庚寅Golden CofferWeddings · Travel · Praying for blessings · Burial
05:00–06:59辛卯Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
07:00–08:59壬辰White TigerWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Burial
09:00–10:59癸巳Jade HallWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
11:00–12:59甲午Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Praying for blessings
13:00–14:59乙未Black TortoiseWeddings · Moving house · Burial · Adding to the household (adoption, hiring)
15:00–16:59丙申Controller of FateWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59丁酉Hooked ArrayWeddings · Moving into a new home · Burial · Seeking wealth
19:00–20:59戊戌Azure DragonWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Placing the bed
21:00–22:59己亥Bright HallWeddings · Moving house · Trading · Opening for business
23:00–23:59庚子Azure DragonWeddings · 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.

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