Chinese almanac for Thursday 27 January 2028
1st lunar month, day 2. A Metal Pig day (Xin Hai, 辛亥), in a Water Ox month (Gui Chou, 癸丑) and a Fire Goat year (Ding Wei, 丁未).
- Day officer
- Open day (Kai, 开)
- Ruling spirit
- Bright Hall (Ming Tang, 明堂), 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
Making pledges and agreements (订盟), Sending betrothal gifts (纳采), Visiting family and friends (会亲友), Offerings and worship (祭祀), Taoist fasting rites (斋醮), Ritual bathing (沐浴), Making holy images (塑绘), Moving the altar out before works (出火), Consecrating a statue (开光), Raising pillars (竖柱), Raising the roof beam (上梁), Opening a business (开市), Trading (交易), Signing contracts (立券), Making beams (作梁), Cutting holes for pillars (开柱眼), Felling trees (伐木), Setting up trestles (架马), Hanging a door (安门), Setting up the bed (安床), Demolition (拆卸), Raising livestock (牧养), Building animal pens (造畜稠), Digging a well (掘井)
Avoid
Building a temple (造庙), Weddings (嫁娶), Travel (出行), Breaking ground (动土), 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 86 minutes behind the clock, so on your clock the Horse hour is 12:26–14:26. The table is already converted. Why
| Hour | Clock time | Luck | Clashes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rat (子) | 00:26–02:26 | Unlucky | Horse (马) |
| Ox (丑) | 02:26–04:26 | Lucky | Goat (羊) |
| Tiger (寅) | 04:26–06:26 | Unlucky | Monkey (猴) |
| Rabbit (卯) | 06:26–08:26 | Unlucky | Rooster (鸡) |
| Dragon (辰) | 08:26–10:26 | Lucky | Dog (狗) |
| Snake (巳) | 10:26–12:26 | Unlucky | Pig (猪) |
| Horse (午) | 12:26–14:26 | Lucky | Rat (鼠) |
| Goat (未) | 14:26–16:26 | Lucky | Ox (牛) |
| Monkey (申) | 16:26–18:26 | Unlucky | Tiger (虎) |
| Rooster (酉) | 18:26–20:26 | Unlucky | Rabbit (兔) |
| Dog (戌) | 20:26–22:26 | Lucky | Dragon (龙) |
| Pig (亥) | 22:26–00:26 | 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 Water Ox month (Gui Chou, 癸丑), has Yin Water (Gui, 癸). 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