Chinese almanac for Wednesday 22 April 2026
3rd lunar month, day 6. A Fire Tiger day (Bing Yin, 丙寅), in a Water Dragon month (Ren Chen, 壬辰) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- Keeper of Fate (Si Ming, 司命), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Monkey years (猴: 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Weddings (嫁娶), Opening a business (开市), Signing contracts (立券), Trading (交易), Hanging a signboard (挂匾), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Setting up the bed (安床), Planting (栽种), Buying property (置产), Demolition (拆卸), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土)
Avoid
Building a stove (作灶), Burials (安葬), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Placing the body in the coffin (入殓)
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 72 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:12–14:12. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:12–02:12 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:12–04:12 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:12–06:12 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:12–08:12 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:12–10:12 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:12–12:12 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:12–14:12 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:12–16:12 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:12–18:12 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:12–20:12 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:12–22:12 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:12–00:12 | 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 Fire (Bing, 丙); 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.
Bing days: do not repair the stove, or disaster follows. (丙不修灶必见灾殃)
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): southwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): northwest.
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