Chinese almanac for Sunday 28 November 2027
11th lunar month, day 1. A Metal Pig day (Xin Hai, 辛亥), in a Metal Pig month (Xin Hai, 辛亥) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Establish day (Jian, 建)
- Ruling spirit
- Heavenly Virtue (Tian De, 天德), a yellow-path, lucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Snake years (蛇: 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Offerings and worship (祭祀), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Travel (出行), Nothing else (馀事勿取)
Avoid
Opening a business (开市), Breaking ground (动土), Breaking ground for a grave (破土), Funerals (行丧), Burials (安葬)
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 62 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:02–14:02. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:02–02:02 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:02–04:02 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:02–06:02 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:02–08:02 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:02–10:02 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:02–12:02 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:02–14:02 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:02–16:02 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:02–18:02 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:02–20:02 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:02–22:02 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:02–00:02 | 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 Yin Metal (Xin, 辛); this month, the Metal Pig month (Xin Hai, 辛亥), 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.
Xin days: do not make sauce, or the master will never taste it. (辛不合酱主人不尝)
Pig days: do not marry, or it goes badly for the groom. (亥不嫁娶不利新郎)
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