Day officer
Mǎn
Full
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
三者數之極故曰滿
Three is the limit of number, and so it is called Full.
協紀辨方書 卷四
About this entry
滿 means full and comes third, on the 辰 day of the 寅 month. Commentary in 協紀辨方書 卷四 builds it from counting: one gives two, two gives three, and three is where number reaches a limit. 卷十 glosses the word as plenty and ease. 卷四 then remarks that what is full spills over, which is its reason for placing 平, leveling, immediately after.
Storage, trade and contracts fill the 1741 list: household members taken in, granaries repaired, markets opened, goods received. Two other names bring more, offerings and prayers as 天巫, and court memorials, banquets and palace repairs as 福德. The editors deleted an older claim that 天巫 suits treating illness, since the 滿 list itself names seeking a physician among its avoided items. Appointments and marriage arrangements are avoided as well, and the name 天狗 adds offerings in the 申 month alone.
星厯考原 puts 滿 on its unfavorable side and its rhyme marks the day black, yet 協紀 still lists markets and trade under it, so the two books resist being folded into one mark. 選擇宗鏡 sees mixed parts, 土瘟 and 喪門 against 天富 and a small good rating. In some months, when specific virtue spirits coincide, the 協紀 editors lift the avoid list. This site's calculator applies none of those conditions and shows only the name. 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 滿 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
- 進人口Taking in new household members
- 裁製Cutting and sewing clothes
- 修倉庫Repairing storehouses
- 經絡Warping silk thread
- 開市Opening a market or shop
- 立劵Drawing up contracts
- 交易Trading
- 納財Receiving money and goods
- 開倉庫出貨財Opening storehouses and paying out goods
- 補垣塞穴Patching walls and stopping holes
- 祭祀Making offerings (as 天巫)
- 祈福Praying for blessings (as 天巫)
- 上册進表章Presenting investiture documents and memorials to the throne (as 福德)
- 慶賜賞賀Bestowing gifts, rewards and congratulations (as 福德)
- 宴㑹Banquets (as 福德)
- 修宮室Repairing palaces and halls (as 福德)
- 繕城郭Repairing city walls (as 福德)
The book says to avoid
- 施恩封拜Granting favors and conferring titles
- 詔命公卿Appointing high ministers by decree
- 招賢Recruiting able men
- 舉正直Promoting the upright
- 上官赴任Taking up an official post
- 臨政親民Governing and attending to the people
- 結婚姻Arranging a marriage
- 納采問名Betrothal gifts and exchanging names
- 求醫療病Seeking a physician and treating illness
- 祭祀Making offerings (申 month, as 天狗)
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