Chinese Almanac: Sun, June 20, 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.

Sun, June 20, 2027

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Month 5, Day 16, 2027 (丁未年五月十六)

丁未 Dīng Wèi year · 丙午 Bǐng Wǔ month · 庚午 Gēng Wǔ day

(none)

Nothing is favourable

Lunar year
丁未 Dīng Wèi, year of the Goat
Nayin
Water of the Heavenly River · Water of the Heavenly River · Earth by the Roadside
Solar term
Day 15 of Grain in Ear ; 1 days to Summer Solstice
Day officer
Establish Unfavourable
Clashes with
Rat (Zǐ)
Day spirit
Arbiter of Fate Yellow Path
Auspicious spirits
Military Fortune, Official's Day, Cockcrow and Bark, Golden Hall, Yang Virtue, Arbiter of Fate
Inauspicious spirits
Month Establishment, Minor Time, Earth Treasury, Monthly Aversion, Earth Fire, Attacking Day, Monthly Punishment, Military Ban, Earth Talisman, Four Separations
How the inauspicious spirits are weighed
  • Month Establishment:everything is unfavourable 子午月值月厭辰午酉亥月值月刑從刑厭論
  • Minor Time:everything is unfavourable 子午月值月厭辰午酉亥月值月刑從刑厭論
  • Earth Treasury:everything is unfavourable 子午月值月厭辰午酉亥月值月刑從刑厭論
  • Monthly Punishment:everything is unfavourable 午月值月厭從月厭論
  • Monthly Aversion:everything is unfavourable 子午月厭建㑹與天赦併如常例不與天赦併諸事皆忌
  • Earth Fire:everything is unfavourable 子午月厭建㑹與天赦併如常例不與天赦併諸事皆忌
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.