Chinese Almanac: Mon, May 17, 2027
The day's Chinese almanac (Huang Li, Tong Shu), computed from the Imperial Almanac (Xieji Bianfang Shu). Tap any activity to see which spirits make it favourable or unfavourable.
Mon, May 17, 2027
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Month 4, Day 12, 2027 (丁未年四月十二)
丁未 Dīng Wèi year · 乙巳 Yǐ Sì month · 丙申 Bǐng Shēn day
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Select an activity to see which spirits make it favourable or unfavourable.
- Lunar year
- 丁未 Dīng Wèi, year of the Goat
- Nayin
- Water of the Heavenly River · Lamp Fire · Fire at the Foot of the Mountain
- Solar term
- Day 12 of Start of Summer ; 4 days to Grain Buds
- Day officer
- Balance Unfavourable
- Clashes with
- Tiger (Yín)
- Day spirit
- Heavenly Punishment Black Path
- Auspicious spirits
- Heavenly Virtue Combination, Heavenly Wish, Minister's Day, Controlling Day, Purging Spirit, Cockcrow and Bark, Six Harmonies, Five Riches, Continuing Generations, Unopposed
- Inauspicious spirits
- Death Spirit, River Chief, Five Emptinesses, Five Separations, Repeat Day, Monthly Punishment, Roaming Calamity, Blood Taboo, Military Ban, Heavenly Punishment
How the inauspicious spirits are weighed
- Balance Day：only the listed activities are unfavourable
寅巳月值月刑從月刑論
- Death Spirit：only the listed activities are unfavourable
寅巳月值月刑從月刑論
- Monthly Punishment：only the listed activities are unfavourable
巳月值平日相日六合與月德天德合天願併止忌安撫邊境選將訓兵出師求醫療病餘皆不忌不與德願併凡所忌者則不註宜所宜者亦不註忌
- Five Emptinesses：not unfavourable
與天德月德天德合月德合六合併則不忌
- Repeat Day：neither unfavourable nor marked favourable
與天德月德天德合月德合天赦六合併天願必是六合故不言而已在其中則不忌亦不註宜
- Five Separations：not unfavourable
與天德月德天德合月德合天赦三合六合併則不忌
Notes and sources
Lunar dates and solar terms are computed for Beijing time. The stem-branch year starts at Start of Spring and each month at its solar term, as in the BaZi chart; the lunar year and zodiac animal start at Chinese New Year.
The twelve day officers follow the Imperial Almanac (Xieji Bianfang Shu), chapter on the Twelve Day Officers: 正月建寅則寅日起建順行十二辰
除危定執成開為吉建破平收滿閉為凶
The Yellow and Black Path spirits follow chapter 7 of the Imperial Almanac: counted from the month's Heavenly Ridge, Azure Dragon, Bright Hall, Golden Casket, Precious Light, Jade Hall and Arbiter of Fate are the Yellow Path; Heavenly Punishment, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Heavenly Prison, Black Tortoise and Gou Chen are the Black Path. Chapter 10 adds that the Yellow Path spirits follow the day's other good or bad spirits, so a Yellow Path day is not good for everything; the day's listed activities decide: 黄黒二道者黄道六黑道六共十有二以配十有二辰
青龍明堂金匱寶光玉堂司命與吉神併則從所宜與凶神併則從所忌
Favourable and unfavourable activities follow the Imperial Almanac (Xieji Bianfang Shu): chapters 3–9 give each day's spirits, chapter 10 what each spirit favours or forbids and how good and bad spirits are weighed, and the activities are listed as the sixty of chapter 11. Spirits that vary by year and are absent from the book's monthly tables (such as the Long and Short Stars, monthly taboo days and Earth in Command) are also applied to the actual date.
The results have been checked page by page against 75 pages of the book's monthly tables (chapters 20–31). Where the tables disagree with the text, or with themselves, the text and the majority of pages are followed.
English names of the spirits and activities are this site's translations; the Chinese names are those of the book.