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Chinese almanac (Huangli), 17 October 2074

Wednesday

Lunar date
农历甲午年八月廿七
甲午 (Jiawu) · Year of the Horse · 甲戌 丙子
Nayin Water in the Ravine
Solar term
Cold Dew
Pentad · què rù dà shuǐ wèi há
Next solar term · Frost's Descent 2074-10-23
Auspicious

Betrothal gifts · Making agreements · Opening for business · Trading · Signing contracts · Visiting family and friends · Acquiring livestock · Raising livestock · Exchanging names (betrothal rite) · Moving house · Cleansing and exorcism · Building a privy · Starting school · Laying foundations · Placing the bed · Opening granaries · Shipping goods · Burial · Opening a grave for reburial · Encoffining · Removing mourning clothes · Putting on mourning clothes

Avoid

Moving into a new home · Raising the ridge beam · Fasting and Taoist rites · Moving the altar fire before renovation · Thanking the Earth God

Clash
Horse · Sha direction south
Day god
Heavenly Prison · Black Path (inauspicious)
Day officer
Full
Lunar mansion
Winnowing Basket · auspicious
Nine star
三碧木
Fetus god
厨灶碓 外西南
Directions
Joy southwest · Wealth southwest · Fortune east
Peng Zu's taboos
丙不修灶必见灾殃 子不问卜自惹祸殃
Folk taboo days
Sanniang Sha (folk unlucky day) · Master Yang's taboo day
Auspicious stars

Heavenly Virtue · yuè dé · shí dé · mín rì · tiān wū · fú dé · pǔ hù · míng fèi duì

Inauspicious stars

zāi shà · tiān huǒ · dà shà · guī jì · chù shuǐ lóng · Heavenly Prison

Hours of the day

00:00–00:59戊子Golden CofferTravel · Taking up a post · Sacrifices and ancestor offerings · Thanksgiving to the gods
01:00–02:59己丑Heavenly VirtueWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
03:00–04:59庚寅White TigerWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Trading
05:00–06:59辛卯Jade HallWeddings · Moving house · Moving into a new home · Opening for business
07:00–08:59壬辰Heavenly PrisonWeddings · Trading · Opening for business · Placing the bed
09:00–10:59癸巳Black TortoiseWeddings · Moving into a new home · Opening for business · Burial
11:00–12:59甲午Controller of Fate
13:00–14:59乙未Hooked Array
15:00–16:59丙申Azure DragonWeddings · Travel · Trading · Opening for business
17:00–18:59丁酉Bright HallWeddings · Travel · Moving into a new home · Taking up a post
19:00–20:59戊戌Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · Travel · Moving house · Burial
21:00–22:59己亥Vermilion BirdWeddings · Travel · Praying for children · Seeking wealth
23:00–23:59庚子Heavenly PunishmentWeddings · 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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