Chinese almanac for Sunday 16 August 2026
7th lunar month, day 4. A Water Dog day (Ren Xu, 壬戌), in a Fire Monkey month (Bing Shen, 丙申) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Full day (Man, 满)
- Ruling spirit
- Keeper of Fate (Si Ming, 司命), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Dragon years (龙: 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, 2024). The sha (煞) lies north.
Good for
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Consecrating a statue (开光), Travel (出行), Cleansing and clearing out (解除), Setting up the home altar (安香), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Demolition (拆卸), Moving into a new home (入宅), Moving house (移徙), Building and repairs (修造), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Setting up the bed (安床), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Installing machinery (安机械), Setting up a loom (经络)
Avoid
Felling trees (伐木), Thanking the earth after building (谢土), Funerals (行丧), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Building a stove (作灶), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Praying for blessings (祈福)
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 77 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:17–14:17. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:17–02:17 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:17–04:17 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:17–06:17 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:17–08:17 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:17–10:17 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:17–12:17 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:17–14:17 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:17–16:17 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:17–18:17 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:17–20:17 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:17–22:17 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:17–00:17 | Lucky | 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 Water (Ren, 壬); this month, the Fire Monkey month (Bing Shen, 丙申), has Yang Fire (Bing, 丙). 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.
Ren days: do not release water, or it cannot be held back. (壬不泱水更难提防)
Dog days: do not eat dog, or strange things climb into bed. (戌不吃犬作怪上床)
God of Joy (Xi Shen, 喜神): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): south. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
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