2026/8/16 (Gregorian) Sun
Lunar Bing-Wu year, 7th month, day 4
Bing-Wu yearBing-Shen monthRen-Xu dayZodiac: Horse
Day 9 after Beginning of Autumn
Dos, don'ts and spirits
Good for
- Betrothal Gift-Giving
- Engagement
- Consecrating a Religious Statue
- Travel
- Exorcism or Purification Rites
- Setting Up an Incense Altar
- Moving a Household Shrine or Stove
- Demolition
- Moving into a New Home
- Moving House
- Renovation
- Raising the Ridge Beam
- Setting Up a Bed
- Planting
- Acquiring Livestock
- Meeting Friends or Relatives
- Installing Machinery
- Setting Up a Loom
Avoid
- Felling Trees
- Thanking the Earth God
- Conducting a Funeral
- Worship
- Building a Stove
- Breaking Ground
- Breaking Ground for a Grave
- Burial
- Praying for Blessings
- Clash
- Clashes with Dragon · Sha in the North
- 12 Day Officers
- Full
- 28 Lunar Mansions
- Star mansion
- Nayin element
- Water of the Great Sea
- Joy deity direction
- South
- Wealth deity direction
- South
- Fetal deity location
- Storehouse & Coop · outside, southeast
- Peng Zu's taboos
- Ren day: don't draw water — trouble would be hard to guard against. / Xu (Dog) day: don't eat dog meat — it would cause trouble in your sleep.
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