Chinese almanac for Sunday 31 January 2027
12th lunar month, day 24. A Metal Dog day (Geng Xu, 庚戌), in a Metal Ox month (Xin Chou, 辛丑) and a Fire Horse year (Bing Wu, 丙午).
- Day officer
- Receive day (Shou, 收)
- Ruling spirit
- Green Dragon (Qing Long, 青龙), 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
Weddings (嫁娶), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Exchanging names and birth dates (问名), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Taking in new household members (进人口), Receiving money (纳财), Catching pests (捕捉), Building a stove (作灶)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Setting up the bed (安床), Burials (安葬), Repairing a grave (修坟)
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 87 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:27–14:27. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:27–02:27 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:27–04:27 | Unlucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:27–06:27 | Lucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:27–08:27 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:27–10:27 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:27–12:27 | Lucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:27–14:27 | Unlucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:27–16:27 | Unlucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:27–18:27 | Lucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:27–20:27 | Lucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:27–22:27 | Unlucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:27–00:27 | 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 Metal (Geng, 庚); this month, the Metal Ox month (Xin Chou, 辛丑), 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.
Geng days: do not string a loom, or it stands idle. (庚不经络织机虚张)
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): northwest. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): east. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southwest.
Choosing a date