October 24, 2027 Chinese almanac
Calendar and pillars
- Gregorian
- October 24, 2027 · Sunday
- Chinese lunar
- month 9, day 25
- Japanese old calendar
- month 9, day 25
- Year pillar
- Ding-Wei (丁未)
- Month pillar
- Geng-Xu (庚戌)
- Day pillar
- Bing-Zi (丙子)
Suitable for
- Send betrothal gifts
- Betrothal
- Open for business
- Trade
- Sign contracts
- Gather family and friends
- Take in livestock
- Raise livestock
- Ask the bride’s name
- Relocate
- Cleansing rite
- Build a latrine
- Start school
- Lay a foundation
- Set up a bed
- Open the granary
- Ship goods or pay out
- Burial
- Open a grave
- Encoffin
- End mourning
- Put on mourning dress
Best avoided
- Move into a new home
- Raise the ridge beam
- Hold a Daoist rite
- Move the household fire
- Thank the earth spirits
Day spirits and mansion
- Clash
- Clashes with horse (Geng-Wu (庚午))
- Hostile direction
- South
- Day officer (建除)
- Full (满)
- Day spirit (十二天神)
- Heavenly Prison (天牢) · Black Path day (inauspicious)
- Lunar mansion (28 mansions)
- Emptiness (虚) · Inauspicious
- Mansion animal
- rat
- Ruling luminary
- Sun
Directions
- Wealth direction
- Southwest
- Joy direction
- Southwest
- Fortune direction
- Northwest
Japanese calendar notes (old calendar, rokuyo, lucky days)
- Rokuyo
- Senbu
- Lucky and unlucky days
- Fujōju-bi (nothing comes to fruition)
- Fujōju-bi (nothing comes to fruition): Set by the old-calendar month and day (Tokyo-time new moons). Traditionally nothing started on this day is thought to come to fruition.
FAQ
Where do the almanac’s “suitable” and “avoid” entries come from?
They are looked up in traditional almanac tables from the day’s stem-branch, day officer, day spirit and lunar mansion. They are not a judgement about any person, and schools differ on individual terms; this page uses the common almanac convention.
Why does Japan’s calendar sometimes differ by a day from the Chinese lunar calendar?
Japan’s old calendar starts each month on the day of the new moon in Tokyo time, China’s lunar calendar in Beijing time. When the new moon falls between 23:00 and midnight in Beijing, it is already the next day in Tokyo, so the Japanese month starts a day later and the rokuyo shift with it.
What are Tenshanichi and Ichiryumanbai-bi?
Tenshanichi falls on the Wu-Yin day in spring, Jia-Wu in summer, Wu-Shen in autumn and Jia-Zi in winter, and is treated as the most auspicious day of the season to begin something new. Ichiryumanbai-bi is set by the solar month and the day branch and means one grain becoming ten thousand. Both are Japanese folk day-selection customs without a scientific basis.
The dos and don’ts are entries from traditional almanacs. They are folk reference only, guarantee nothing and are not medical, legal or investment advice.
Sources: almanac entries come from the lunar-javascript library (solar-term days by Beijing date); the Japanese old calendar fixes new moons in Tokyo time, and the Japanese day officer, solar month and lucky days use solar-term days by Tokyo date, checked against the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan; lucky-day rules are described on the page.