Day officer
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Remove
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.
In the classical sources
建次為除除舊布新
Next after Establish is Remove: remove the old and spread out the new.
協紀辨方書 卷四
About this entry
除 stands second, one branch past the month's own, which makes a 卯 day 除 in the 寅 month. 協紀辨方書 卷四 reads the name as a sweeping out, the clearing that comes right after a month is founded. The same volume gives it two further names, 吉期 and 兵寶. Its editors concede that nobody can now tell whether such paired names came from one school of day selection or from two.
In the 1741 list at 卷十 the word itself sets the contents. Clearing rites, seeking a physician and sweeping the house were already there, and the editors added washing, nail trimming and grooming because these too shed the old. As 吉期 the day takes on the appointments proper to 建, and as 兵寶 the same military matters. An older entry for marriage arrangements was struck out for having nothing to do with the day's meaning, and 卷十 prints no avoid list here.
Later ratings differ. 選擇宗鏡 calls 除 a small good and puts it in a second tier beside 定, while 星厯考原 counts it among six favorable officers and the rhyme it quotes colors it yellow. That rhyme concerns officers, and 黃道 on this site always means the twelve spirits. Our calculator takes no side and names the position. Where this list names illness, money or contracts, it reports the 1741 book and is no guidance; ask a doctor or another qualified person about real decisions.
What 協紀辨方書 says of a 除 day
These are the statements of the 1741 imperial almanac book, volume 10. They are the book's words about choosing days, not advice from this site.
The book says the day suits
- 解除Rites of clearing and removal
- 沐浴Bathing
- 整容剃頭Grooming and shaving the head
- 整手足甲Trimming fingernails and toenails
- 求醫療病Seeking a physician and treating illness
- 掃舍宇Sweeping the house
- 施恩封拜Granting favors and conferring titles (as 吉期)
- 舉正直Promoting the upright (as 吉期)
- 行幸Imperial tours (as 吉期)
- 遣使Sending envoys (as 吉期)
- 上官赴任Taking up an official post (as 吉期)
- 臨政親民Governing and attending to the people (as 吉期)
- 詔命公卿Appointing high ministers by decree (tenth month, joined with 天馬)
- 招賢Recruiting able men (tenth month, joined with 天馬)
- 安撫邊境Pacifying the borders (as 兵寶)
- 選將訓兵Selecting generals and training troops (as 兵寶)
- 出師Sending out an army (as 兵寶)
The book says to avoid
The book states nothing to avoid on this day type.
Where this text comes from
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The English here is our own plain wording. Lists keep the items of the source.