Chinese almanac for Monday 3 January 2028
12th lunar month, day 7. A Fire Pig day (Ding Hai, 丁亥), in a Water Rat month (Ren Zi, 壬子) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Close day (Bi, 闭)
- Ruling spirit
- Vermilion Bird (Zhu Que, 朱雀), a black-path, unlucky day
- Clashes
- People born in Snake years (蛇: 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025). The sha (煞) lies west.
Good for
Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Coming-of-age rites (冠笄), Hanging the bridal curtains (合帐), Cutting cloth for clothes (裁衣), Building and repairs (修造), Breaking ground (动土), Demolition (拆卸), Moving house (移徙), Moving into a new home (入宅), Hanging a door (安门), Opening the storehouse (开仓), Building embankments (筑堤), Building a toilet (开厕), Planting (栽种), Buying livestock (纳畜), Mending walls (补垣), Sealing holes (塞穴)
Avoid
Weddings (嫁娶), Praying for blessings (祈福), Consecrating a statue (开光), Digging a well (掘井), Burials (安葬), Funerals (行丧)
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 78 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:18–14:18. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:18–02:18 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:18–04:18 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:18–06:18 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:18–08:18 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:18–10:18 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:18–12:18 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:18–14:18 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:18–16:18 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:18–18:18 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:18–20:18 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:18–22:18 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:18–00:18 | 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 Fire (Ding, 丁); this month, the Water Rat month (Ren Zi, 壬子), 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.
Ding days: do not shave the head, or it breaks out in sores. (丁不剃头头必生疮)
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): south. God of Wealth (Cai Shen, 财神): southwest. God of Fortune (Fu Shen, 福神): southeast.
Choosing a date