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December 31, 1996 Tuesday (Week 53)

(Rat Year) Lunar: 11th Month, 21st Day

Bingzi Year, Gengzi Month, Renyin Day

Auspicious Opening Business Signing Contracts Consecration Dispelling Installing Machinery Raising Roof Beam Relocating Grave Burial

Inauspicious Marriage Praying for Blessings

Prev Solar Term: Winter Solstice
（1996-12-21 22:05:53）

Next Solar Term: Slight Cold
（1997-01-05 15:24:28）

God of Wealth Direction Due South

God of Fortune Direction Southeast

God of Joy Direction Due South

Yang Benefactor Direction Due East

Yin Benefactor Direction Southeast

Five Elements Gold Foil Metal

Clash & Inauspicious Direction Clash: Sha:North

Deity of the Day White Tiger（Inauspicious Day）

Twelve Day Officers

Full
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Auspicious Deities

Monthly Virtue, Hourly Virtue, Minister's Day, Post Horse, Heavenly Queen, Heavenly Horse, Heavenly Mystic, Fortune Virtue, No General, Fortune Generating, Five Harmonies, Echoing Bark

Fetal Deity Position

Storehouse, Furnace - Inside Room South

Inauspicious Deities

Five Emptinesses, Return Taboo, White Tiger

Pengzu's Hundred Taboos

Ren: Do not dam water, or floods cannot be prevented. Yin: Do not offer sacrifices, or spirits will reject them.

28 Lunar Mansions

Lunar Mansions: Encampment Fire Pig

Year Element Stream Water

Month Element Wall Earth

Day Element Gold Foil Metal

Year Void Shen, You

Month Void Chen, Si

Day Void Chen, Si

Phenology Third Pentad，Spring waters flow

Monthly Ordinance Gengzi

Daily Prosperity Hai Mutual Prosperity, Jia Advancing Prosperity

Auspicious

Double Hour: Zi Hour Time: 23:00-00:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Jiawu), Sha South

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Due East, Direction for Joy:Due South, Direction for Fortune:Southwest, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Northeast

AU.Praying for Blessings, Engagement, Marriage, Opening Business, Burial

IN.Shipbuilding, Take Boat, Raising Roof Beam, Building House, Encoffining, Taking Office, Travel

Chou

Auspicious

Double Hour: Chou Hour Time: 01:00-02:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Yiwei), Sha East

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Due East, Direction for Joy:Northeast, Direction for Fortune:Northwest, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Due South

AU.Offering Sacrifices, Praying for Blessings, Thanking the Deities, Travel, Seek Wealth, Meet Nobles, Engagement, Marriage, Renovation, Burial

IN.None

Yin

Inauspicious

Double Hour: Yin Hour Time: 03:00-04:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Bingshen), Sha North

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Due South, Direction for Joy:Due East, Direction for Fortune:Southeast, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Southeast

AU.Taking Office, Meet Nobles, Travel, Seek Wealth, Marriage, Expanding Household, Migration, Burial

IN.Praying for Blessings, Praying for Heirs

Mao

Inauspicious

Double Hour: Mao Hour Time: 05:00-06:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Dingyou), Sha West

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Due South, Direction for Joy:Southeast, Direction for Fortune:Northeast, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Due East

AU.Renovation, Building House, Migration, Setting Up Bed, Entering New House, Opening Business, Opening Granary, Praying for Blessings, Praying for Heirs, Engagement, Marriage, Taking Office, Travel, Meet Nobles

IN.None

Chen

Auspicious

Double Hour: Chen Hour Time: 07:00-08:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Wuxu), Sha South

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Northeast, Direction for Joy:Southwest, Direction for Fortune:Due North, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Northeast

AU.Praying for Blessings, Praying for Heirs, Engagement, Marriage, Seek Wealth, Opening Business, Trading, Setting Up Bed

IN.Taking Office, Renovation, Migration, Travel, Litigation

Auspicious

Double Hour: Si Hour Time: 09:00-10:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Zihai), Sha East

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Northeast, Direction for Joy:Southwest, Direction for Fortune:Southwest, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Due North

AU.Praying for Heirs, Marriage, Migration, Entering New House, Opening Business, Trading, Burial

IN.Taking Office, Travel, Renovation, Breaking Ground

Inauspicious

Double Hour: Wu Hour Time: 11:00-12:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Gengzi), Sha North

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Southwest, Direction for Joy:Due West, Direction for Fortune:Northwest, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Northwest

AU.None

IN.Nothing Suitable

Wei

Auspicious

Double Hour: Wei Hour Time: 13:00-14:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (xinchou), Sha West

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Southwest, Direction for Joy:Northwest, Direction for Fortune:Southeast, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Due West

AU.Thanking the Deities, Seek Wealth, Meet Nobles, Engagement, Marriage, Renovation, Burial

IN.Taking Office, Travel, Offering Sacrifices, Praying for Blessings, Taoist Fasts and Offerings, Consecration

Shen

Inauspicious

Double Hour: Shen Hour Time: 15:00-16:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Renyin), Sha South

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Due North, Direction for Joy:Northeast, Direction for Fortune:Northeast, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Southwest

AU.Praying for Blessings, Praying for Heirs, Engagement, Marriage, Travel, Seek Wealth, Opening Business, Trading, Setting Up Bed, Taking Office, Entering New House

IN.Consecration, Renovation, Burial

You

Inauspicious

Double Hour: You Hour Time: 17:00-18:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Kuimao), Sha East

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Due North, Direction for Joy:Due North, Direction for Fortune:Due North, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Southwest

AU.Praying for Heirs, Marriage, Migration, Entering New House, Opening Business, Trading, Renovation, Burial, Praying for Blessings, Taking Office, Travel, Seek Wealth

IN.None

Auspicious

Double Hour: Xu Hour Time: 19:00-20:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Jiachen), Sha North

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Due East, Direction for Joy:Due South, Direction for Fortune:Southwest, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Northeast

AU.Praying for Blessings, Praying for Heirs, Engagement, Marriage, Seek Wealth, Opening Business, Trading, Setting Up Bed, Meet Nobles

IN.Raising Roof Beam, Building House, Encoffining, Taking Office, Travel

Hai

Inauspicious

Double Hour: Hai Hour Time: 21:00-22:59

Clash & Sha: Clash (Yisi), Sha West

Deity Positions: Direction for Wealth:Due East, Direction for Joy:Northeast, Direction for Fortune:Northwest, Direction for Yang Benefactors:Due South

AU.Taking Office, Meet Nobles, Travel, Seek Wealth, Marriage, Expanding Household, Migration, Burial, Renovation, Entering New House

IN.Offering Sacrifices, Praying for Blessings, Taoist Fasts and Offerings, Thanking the Deities

Chinese Almanac Calendar

December 31, 1996 Tuesday (Week 53)

(Rat Year) Lunar: 11th Month, 21st Day

Bingzi Year, Gengzi Month, Renyin Day

Auspicious Opening Business Signing Contracts Consecration Dispelling Installing Machinery Raising Roof Beam Relocating Grave Burial

Inauspicious Marriage Praying for Blessings