Chinese almanac for Friday 17 April 2026
3rd lunar month, day 1. A Metal Rooster day (Xin You, 辛酉), in a Water Dragon month (Ren Chen, 壬辰) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Initiate day (Zhi, 执)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Rabbit years (兔: 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023). The sha (煞) lies east.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓), Moving a coffin (移柩), Opening a grave for reburial (启钻), Burials (安葬), Trimming nails (整手足甲), Catching pests (捕捉), Hunting (畋猎), Fishing (取渔), Taking off mourning clothes (除服), Putting on mourning clothes (成服), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮)
Avoid
Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土)
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 73 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:13–14:13. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:13–02:13 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:13–04:13 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:13–06:13 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:13–08:13 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:13–10:13 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:13–12:13 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:13–14:13 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:13–16:13 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:13–18:13 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:13–20:13 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:13–22:13 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:13–00:13 | 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 Metal (Xin, 辛); this month, the Water Dragon month (Ren Chen, 壬辰), has Yang Water (Ren, 壬). 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
Rooster days: do not receive guests, or they get drunk and wild. (酉不会客醉坐颠狂)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
Choosing a date