Chinese almanac for Thursday 5 March 2026
1st lunar month, day 17. An Earth Tiger day (Wu Yin, 戊寅), in a Metal Rabbit month (Xin Mao, 辛卯) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Close day (Bi, 闭)
- Ruling spirit
- Green Dragon (Qing Long, 青龙), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
- Solar term
- Awakening of Insects (Jing Zhe, 惊蛰), at 21:59 Malaysia time
Good for
Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Installing machinery (安机械), Demolition (拆卸), Setting up the bed (安床), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Moving a coffin (移柩), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Repairing a grave (修坟), Setting up a tombstone (立碑), Setting up a loom (经络), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Receiving money (纳财), Building embankments (筑堤), Building a storehouse (造仓), Mending walls (补垣), Sealing holes (塞穴), Buying livestock (纳畜), Felling trees (伐木), Setting up trestles (架马)
Avoid
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Consecrating a statue (开光), Weddings (嫁娶), Moving into a new home (入宅)
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 85 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:25–14:25. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:25–02:25 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:25–04:25 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:25–06:25 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:25–08:25 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:25–10:25 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:25–12:25 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:25–14:25 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:25–16:25 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:25–18:25 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:25–20:25 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:25–22:25 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:25–00:25 | 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 Yang Earth (Wu, 戊); this month, the Metal Rabbit month (Xin Mao, 辛卯), has Yin Metal (Xin, 辛). 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.
Wu days: do not take on land, or the owner has no luck with it. (戊不受田田主不祥)
Tiger days: do not make offerings, or the spirits will not accept them. (寅不祭祀神鬼不尝)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southeast. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): north. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northeast.
Choosing a date