The day I got the keys, an elder stopped the mover about to lift the mattress: “How can you move the bed first? Bring the rice in first.” In the almanac, moving into a new home is ruzhai and moving house is yixi, and their favorable and unfavorable indications are not the same.
During the Double Ten holiday in the Taiwan region of China, many people are torn over just one thing: head south first or north first? What they dwell on more is the universal cash payout of NT$10,000—the region’s finance authority set out a plan on October 8, and if the general budget passes its third reading on schedule the first batch could be credited as early as January 26, 2027.
Korea calls the making of winter kimchi kimjang, usually done around the start of winter (ipdong), and many households pick one of two kinds of day: the “no-ghost day” and the “horse day.” The first refers to lunar dates ending in 9 or 10; the second takes the auspicious speed of the horse of the wu branch.
