黄历 · Chinese almanac
Saturday, December 26, 2026
农历冬月十八 (11th lunar month, day 18) · Year of the Horse 丙午 · Day 甲戌
Traditionally favored 宜
- 纳采 Betrothal gifts
- 订盟 Engagements
- 祭祀 Ritual offerings to ancestors and deities
- 祈福 Praying for blessings
- 塑绘 Sculpting and painting sacred images
- 解除 Ritual cleansing
- 拆卸 Dismantling
- 修造 Building and renovation
- 动土 Breaking ground
- 竖柱 Raising pillars
- 上梁 Raising the main beam
- 安门 Installing doors
- 置产 Buying property
- 开池 Digging a pond
- 掘井 Digging a well
- 纳畜 Buying livestock
- 安床 Setting up a bed
- 栽种 Planting
- 造畜稠 Building animal pens
- 破土 Breaking ground for a grave
- 移柩 Moving a coffin
- 立碑 Putting up a headstone
Some entries have been omitted from this list.
Traditionally avoided 忌
- 嫁娶 Weddings
- 开市 Opening a business
- 出火 Moving the family altar (a ritual)
- 进人口 Welcoming new household members
- 入殓 Placing in the coffin
- 赴任 Starting a new post
- 入宅 Moving into a new home
- 移徙 Moving house
- 出行 Travel
- 安葬 Burials
Clash 冲煞
Clashes with the Dragon 戊辰
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
开 Open
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
- Northeast 东北
- Wealth 财神
- Northeast 东北
- Fortune 福神
- North 正北
Solar term 节气
Winter Solstice 冬至 since December 22. Next up: Minor Cold 小寒 on January 5. 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).