黄历 · Chinese almanac
Friday, January 15, 2027
农历腊月初八 (12th lunar month, day 8) · Year of the Horse 丙午 · Day 甲午
Traditionally favored 宜
- 嫁娶 Weddings
- 纳采 Betrothal gifts
- 订盟 Engagements
- 入宅 Moving into a new home
- 移徙 Moving house
- 安床 Setting up a bed
- 祭祀 Ritual offerings to ancestors and deities
- 祈福 Praying for blessings
- 开光 Consecrating sacred images or objects
- 出行 Travel
- 解除 Ritual cleansing
- 出火 Moving the family altar (a ritual)
- 拆卸 Dismantling
- 动土 Breaking ground
- 纳畜 Buying livestock
- 谢土 Thanking the earth after building
- 安葬 Burials
- 破土 Breaking ground for a grave
Traditionally avoided 忌
- 伐木 Felling trees
- 开市 Opening a business
- 交易 Trading and deals
- 上梁 Raising the main beam
- 作灶 Building a stove
- 安门 Installing doors
- 盖屋 Building a house
Clash 冲煞
Clashes with the Rat 戊子
The almanac names one clashing animal each day. Some people born in Rat 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
执 Initiate
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
Minor Cold 小寒 since January 5. Next up: Major Cold 大寒 on January 20. 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).