Chinese almanac for Sunday 13 December 2026
11th lunar month, day 5. A Metal Rooster day (Xin You, 辛酉), in a Metal Rat month (Geng Zi, 庚子) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), 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), Consecrating a statue (开光), Haircuts (理发), Trimming nails (整手足甲), Setting up the bed (安床), Building a stove (作灶), Cleaning the house (扫舍), Training cattle and horses (教牛马)
Avoid
Felling trees (伐木), Buying livestock (纳畜), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Burials (安葬), Preparing one’s own grave (开生坟), Weddings (嫁娶), Opening a business (开市), Breaking ground (动土), Trading (交易), Making beams (作梁)
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 68 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:08–14:08. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:08–02:08 | Lucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:08–04:08 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:08–06:08 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:08–08:08 | Lucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:08–10:08 | Unlucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:08–12:08 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:08–14:08 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:08–16:08 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:08–18:08 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:08–20:08 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:08–22:08 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:08–00:08 | 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 Metal Rat month (Geng Zi, 庚子), has Yang Metal (Geng, 庚). 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