黄历 · Chinese almanac
Sunday, August 16, 2026
农历七月初四 (7th lunar month, day 4) · Year of the Horse 丙午 · Day 壬戌
Traditionally favored 宜
- 纳采 Betrothal gifts
- 订盟 Engagements
- 开光 Consecrating sacred images or objects
- 出行 Travel
- 解除 Ritual cleansing
- 安香 Setting up an altar
- 出火 Moving the family altar (a ritual)
- 拆卸 Dismantling
- 入宅 Moving into a new home
- 移徙 Moving house
- 修造 Building and renovation
- 上梁 Raising the main beam
- 安床 Setting up a bed
- 栽种 Planting
- 纳畜 Buying livestock
- 会亲友 Seeing family and friends
- 安机械 Installing machinery
- 经络 Weaving
Traditionally avoided 忌
- 伐木 Felling trees
- 谢土 Thanking the earth after building
- 行丧 Holding a funeral
- 祭祀 Ritual offerings to ancestors and deities
- 作灶 Building a stove
- 动土 Breaking ground
- 破土 Breaking ground for a grave
- 安葬 Burials
- 祈福 Praying for blessings
Clash 冲煞
Clashes with the Dragon 丙辰
The almanac names one clashing animal each day. Some people born in Dragon years keep their plans simple on a day like this. It’s a custom, and nothing to worry about.
Sha direction: North 煞北
Day officer 建除
满 Full
The twelve day officers take turns through the calendar. Their names are traditional categories: “Danger” or “Destruction” doesn’t mean anything bad will happen today.
Directions 方位
- Joy 喜神
- South 正南
- Wealth 财神
- South 正南
- Fortune 福神
- Southeast 东南
Solar term 节气
Start of Autumn 立秋 since August 7. Next up: End of Heat 处暑 on August 23. Dates are in China Standard Time (UTC+8).
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The almanac (黄历, also known as the Tung Shing 通胜) is a traditional Chinese calendar that notes what each day suits. We share it as cultural reference. We leave out its entries on medical treatment, lawsuits and praying for children, and a list says so when that happens. Please don’t let a calendar decide when you see a doctor.
How this almanac is worked out
- Source: the almanac tables built into the open-source lunar-javascript library (version 1.7.7). The library doesn’t cite a classical source for its good-for and avoid tables, and we’re having them reviewed.
- Which day: we show the standard entries for the calendar date you choose. “Today” follows your device’s time zone. The entries themselves aren’t recalculated for your time zone.
- Lunar date and year: these follow the Chinese lunar calendar, so the year here turns at Lunar New Year. BaZi charts on this site turn the year at Li Chun instead.
- Day: each almanac day runs from midnight to midnight on the calendar date. The 11pm rule used in BaZi charts doesn’t apply here.
- Month: for the good-for and avoid lists and the day officer, the month changes on the calendar day of each solar term, and that whole day counts in the new month.
- Day officer: counted from the month’s branch to the day’s branch, in the traditional order 建除满平定执破危成收开闭.
- Directions: the Joy, Wealth and Fortune directions come from the day’s heavenly stem, using the library’s standard tables (its default second table for Fortune). They belong to the date and aren’t personal to you.
- Solar-term dates are given in China Standard Time (UTC+8).