Day officer
Wēi
Danger
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
危日取安為義
The Danger day takes safety as its meaning.
協紀辨方書 卷十
About this entry
危 reads as danger, and the eighth place in the count belongs to it, the 酉 day of the 寅 month. 協紀辨方書 卷十 says outright that this day takes safety as its meaning. 卷四 explains that care follows a break, and cites Mencius on how a mind alert to peril comes to understanding. It is the only officer for which 卷四 records no other name.
The 1741 list pairs rest with readiness. Setting up a bed comes from the idea of safety, and the editors reason that not forgetting danger in peaceful times is why border pacification and troop training belong here too. Seasonal items follow: 立冬 to 立春 for felling, 霜降 to 立春 for hunting, 雨水 to 立夏 for fishing. Nothing under this heading is marked for avoidance.
選擇宗鏡 places 危 among its four best officers and connects it with 龍德, and 星厯考原 also counts it favorable, so these two sources lean the same way. The rhyme quoted in 考原 colors it yellow. The same character names a lunar mansion, Rooftop, which runs on a separate count of twenty-eight. Here the calculator prints the officer's name and nothing more.
What 協紀辨方書 says of a 危 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
- 安撫邊境Pacifying the borders
- 選將訓兵Selecting generals and training troops
- 安牀Setting up a bed
- 伐木Felling trees (after 立冬, before 立春)
- 畋獵Hunting (after 霜降, before 立春)
- 取魚Fishing (after 雨水, before 立夏)
The book says to avoid
The book states nothing to avoid on this day type.
Where this text comes from
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