Chinese almanac for Monday 5 January 2026
11th lunar month, day 17. An Earth Rabbit day (Ji Mao, 己卯), in an Earth Ox month (Ji Chou, 己丑) and a Wood Snake year (Yi Si, 乙巳).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rooster years (鸡: 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017). The sha (煞) lies west.
- Solar term
- Minor Cold (Xiao Han, 小寒), at 16:23 Malaysia time
Good for
Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Digging a pond (开池), Mending walls (补垣), Weddings (嫁娶), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Buying livestock (纳畜), Fishing (取渔), Setting up the bed (安床)
Avoid
Building and repairs (修造), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Moving into a new home (入宅), Praying for blessings (祈福), Visiting the sick (探病), Digging a well (掘井), Breaking ground (动土), Hanging a door (安门), Burials (安葬), Building a stove (作灶)
The good-for and avoid lists come from the open-source lunar calendar library (6tail), whose author built them from a popular Chinese calendar website’s data. Almanacs differ on these lists, and unlike the rest of this site they are not quoted from a classical text. How the rest is worked out
The hours, on the clock in Kuala Lumpur
Almanacs give the hours by the sun: the Horse hour is 11 to 1, when the sun is highest. In Kuala Lumpur today the sun runs 79 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:19–14:19. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:19–02:19 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:19–04:19 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:19–06:19 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:19–08:19 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:19–10:19 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:19–12:19 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:19–14:19 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:19–16:19 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:19–18:19 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:19–20:19 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:19–22:19 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:19–00:19 | Unlucky | Snake (蛇) |
Lucky or unlucky by the spirit ruling the hour: six walk the yellow path and are lucky (Green Dragon, Bright Hall, Golden Casket, Heavenly Virtue, Jade Hall, Keeper of Fate); the other six walk the black path.
This day for each day master
BaZi reads a day by what its stem is to your day master, and a month by the month’s stem. This day’s stem is Yin Earth (Ji, 己); this month, the Earth Ox month (Ji Chou, 己丑), has Yin Earth (Ji, 己). Each links to what the classics say about it. Don’t know your day master? Read each day against your whole chart
The Peng Zu taboos
A rhyme every almanac prints: one line for the day’s stem, one for its branch.
Ji days: do not break a contract, or both parties lose. (己不破券二比并亡)
Rabbit days: do not dig a well, or the water will not be sweet. (卯不穿井水泉不香)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): northeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): north.
Choosing a date