Chinese almanac
The Chinese almanac, 黃曆 or Tong Shu, sorts every day into traditional types. The month calendar gives each day's lunar date or solar term. Pick a day to see its day pillar, its day officer, its yellow or black path spirit and its lunar mansion.
An almanac describes traditional day-types. It cannot decide health, money, law, marriage or children. Burial, marriage and medical items on these pages are what a book states, never advice.
Any day from 1900 to 2100. Today is read from your browser's time zone. The date is worked out in your browser, and it is not sent anywhere, saved or put in a URL.
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- What it isHistory, sources and where the record runs out.
- How it worksThe method, the conventions and what is left out, in plain English.
- The twelve day officers建除, the cycle of twelve that repeats through the days.
- The twelve spirits黃道 and 黑道, six of each.
- The twenty-eight mansions二十八宿, the cycle of twenty-eight days.