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Traditional calendar · personal reflection

Daily Insight

A living Chinese almanac for the day, paired with a quieter prompt for how you might move through it.

April 1857

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TODAY
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Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
Lunar month 329Day 4SouthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 330Day 5Due SouthFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 331Day 6SoutheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 31Day 7NortheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 32Day 8NorthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 33Day 9SouthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 34Day 10Due SouthFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingPure Brightness5Day 11SoutheastFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 36Day 12NortheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 37Day 13NorthwestFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 38Day 14SouthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 39Day 15Due SouthFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 310Day 16SoutheastFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 311Day 17NortheastFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 312Day 18NorthwestFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 313Day 19SouthwestFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 314Day 20Due SouthFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 315Day 21SoutheastFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 316Day 22NortheastFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 317Day 23NorthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 318Day 24SouthwestFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 319Day 25Due SouthFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseGrain Rain20Day 26SoutheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 321Day 27NortheastFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 322Day 28NorthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 323Day 29SouthwestFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 424Day 1Due SouthFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 425Day 2SoutheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 426Day 3NortheastFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 427Day 4NorthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 428Day 5SouthwestFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingLunar month 429Day 6Due SouthFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 430Day 7SoutheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 41Day 8NortheastFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 42Day 9NorthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 43Day 10SouthwestFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigationLunar month 44Day 11Due SouthFavourableStudyAvoidGroundbreakingStart of Summer5Day 12SoutheastFavourablePlantingAvoidLendingLunar month 46Day 13NortheastFavourableBlessingsAvoidQuarrelsLunar month 47Day 14NorthwestFavourableTravelAvoidMoving houseLunar month 48Day 15SouthwestFavourableGatheringsAvoidHasteLunar month 49Day 16Due SouthFavourableAgreementsAvoidLitigation
Today Selected Solar term

Wednesday, April 8, 1857

Lunar 一八五七年 · 三月十四

Daily direction

Southwest

Make room for warm gatherings and patient beginnings. If rushed decisions asks for your attention, let patience set the pace.

Lean into
warm gatherings
Give space to
rushed decisions

A daily reflection is not a prediction. Use it as a prompt for attentive, self-directed choices.

24 Solar Terms

Follow the seasonal rhythm, from today into the next turn.

  1. Pure Brightness

    Sun

    1857-04-05

    Passed 3 days

  2. Selected date

    Wed

    1857-04-08

    Since the previous term: 3 days

  3. Grain Rain

    Mon

    1857-04-20

    In 12 days

  4. Start of Summer

    Tue

    1857-05-05

    In 27 days

Traditional almanac

The day at a glance

Lunar date, gan-zhi cycles, solar terms, auspicious activities and timing.

清明 → 谷雨

Year cycle

丁巳

Zodiac · 蛇

Month cycle

甲辰

三月十四

Day cycle

丙寅

炉中火

Day guardian

司命

吉 · 开

Favourable

Traditional activities commonly associated with a smoother rhythm today.

Set an altarMove the hearthFormal betrothalMake a pactMarriageOpen for businessExecute an agreementTradeHang a signboardConsecrate

Avoid

Traditional cautions for the day; treat them as a pause for discernment.

Build a stoveBurialMake an offeringFuneral preparation

Orientation

Auspicious directions

Traditional directional correspondences for the day.

Joy

Southwest

坤

Fortune

Northwest

乾

Wealth

Southwest

坤

Day notes

Clash (庚申)猴 · Sha 北

丙不修灶必见灾殃 · 寅不祭祀神鬼不尝

Timing

Twelve double-hours

A traditional indication of the day’s changing rhythm.

23:00–00:59

戊子

Favourable

01:00–02:59

己丑

Favourable

03:00–04:59

庚寅

Avoid

05:00–06:59

辛卯

Avoid

07:00–08:59

壬辰

Favourable

09:00–10:59

癸巳

Favourable

11:00–12:59

甲午

Avoid

13:00–14:59

乙未

Favourable

15:00–16:59

丙申

Avoid

17:00–18:59

丁酉

Avoid

19:00–20:59

戊戌

Favourable

21:00–22:59

己亥

Avoid

Almanac information and Daily Insight are offered for traditional-culture reference and personal reflection only. They are not professional, medical, legal, or financial advice.

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