Tag: Huangli

Date Selection for Beginners: What to Look at for a Move, a Wedding or an Opening

In the date-selection tradition, different matters correspond to different suitable-and-avoid entries: capping, marriage, mourning and sacrifice form one group, building and moving another, daily life and ceremonial celebrations a third. In practice the steadier order is to fix the range of possible dates first, check the weather and the people involved second, and use the almanac to choose among those days last.

September 19, 2026 About 5 minutes date selection Huangli lunisolar calendar

How to Use the Suitable-and-Avoid Entries of a Huangli: Why Two Almanacs Disagree

The suitable-and-avoid entries of a huangli form part of the date-selection tradition, and different editions of the almanac were never consistent with one another, so a single day reading both "suitable for marriage" and "avoid marriage" is nothing unusual. The steady way to use a huangli is as a reference calendar rather than as the basis for a decision.

September 19, 2026 About 4 minutes Huangli date selection suitable and avoid entries