28 Mansions 廿八宿 室 Fire Pig Shi (Encampment)Pengzu 彭祖 Jia: Do not open warehouses; wealth scatters (甲不开仓财物耗散)Xu: Do not eat dogs; strange dreams ascend (戌不吃犬作怪上床)幸運色 GreenNayin Fire on the Mountain 山头火2026 丙午 · Horse Yr
⚖ 為何如此推薦 — Why these recommendations? (full provenance)
Computed by: 12Zodiacs deterministic engine
Editorial review: Compiled and maintained by the 12Zodiacs editorial team; interpretive layer follows the full methodology (date-selection rules per Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu 協紀辨方書, the 1739 Qing imperial commission, with original passages cited).
Rules applied: Day Officer + Belt arbitration
Conflict resolution: No Tier-1 veto — standard four-tier arbitration applied
Source: Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu (協紀辨方書, 1739 imperial canon) · JPL DE440s ephemeris
Clash & harmony computed daily from the day branch · horoscope previews from our engine All zodiac horoscopes →
吉時 — 12 Chinese Hours Auspicious Hours Today
Detecting…· hours & AI prompt convert with your selection 时辰与 AI 提示词随选择同步换算
23:00-00:59 Beijing UTC+8
子時 Jia Zi
天牢 Tian Lao
Clash: Horse
01:00-02:59 Beijing UTC+8
丑時 Yi Chou
玄武 Xuan Wu
Clash: Goat
03:00-04:59 Beijing UTC+8
寅時 Bing Yin
★ 司命 Si Ming
Clash: Monkey
05:00-06:59 Beijing UTC+8
卯時 Ding Mao
勾陈 Gou Chen
Clash: Rooster
07:00-08:59 Beijing UTC+8
辰時 Wu Chen
★ 青龙 Qing Long
Clash: Dog
09:00-10:59 Beijing UTC+8
巳時 Ji Si
★ 明堂 Ming Tang
Clash: Pig
11:00-12:59 Beijing UTC+8
午時 Geng Wu
天刑 Tian Xing
Clash: Rat
13:00-14:59 Beijing UTC+8
未時 Xin Wei
朱雀 Zhu Que
Clash: Ox
15:00-16:59 Beijing UTC+8
申時 Ren Shen
★ 金匮 Jin Kui
Clash: Tiger
17:00-18:59 Beijing UTC+8
酉時 Gui You
★ 天德 Tian De
Clash: Rabbit
19:00-20:59 Beijing UTC+8
戌時 Jia Xu
白虎 Bai Hu
Clash: Dragon
21:00-22:59 Beijing UTC+8
亥時 Yi Hai
★ 玉堂 Yu Tang
Clash: Snake
★ = 黃道吉時 Yellow Belt hour (most auspicious window). Times in Beijing time (UTC+8) — they auto-convert to your local timezone. 時沖 = the zodiac clashed by this hour. Engine-computed from each hour's own pillar, not copied. Full hourly breakdown in today's almanac.
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TODAY'S VERDICT
STANDARD DAY
Solid day for planned activities — Establish (建) day
✓ Check the Yi/Ji lists below for what today favours · auspicious hours marked ★ further down. Full reasoning →
Picking a date for an event?
This month at a glance — ● Yellow Path days · ● Tier-1 veto days · ● standard. Click any day for its full almanac.
Universal dates are half the equation — personal timing depends on your own chart. Check your BaZi →
What is the traditional Chinese almanac?
The Chinese almanac — known as Tong Shu (通書) in Mandarin and Tung Shing (通勝) in Cantonese — is a lunisolar date-selection system that has guided Chinese daily life for over two thousand years. Each day carries a "Day Officer" (one of twelve Jian Chu 建除 spirits), a Yellow or Black Belt deity, auspicious hours, and specific Yi (宜, favourable) and Ji (忌, avoid) activities.
A serious almanac is not a simple lookup table. When rules conflict — a Yellow Belt day that falls on a Day-Breaker (月破), or a Veto day under the Year Breaker (歲破) — the 1739 imperial compendium Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu (協紀辨方書) prescribes a four-tier arbitration: Tier-1 vetoes disqualify major undertakings outright, Major Virtues neutralise lesser calamities, scoped taboos are read narrowly, and Yellow Belt hours offer salvage windows.
This page is computed by a deterministic engine: JPL DE440s ephemeris drives solar terms to the minute, the full arbitration pipeline runs per the imperial canon, and the result has been machine-verified across 73,414/73,414 day-level assertions (1900–2100) — cross-checked against the Purple Mountain Observatory.
Pengzu daily taboos (彭祖百忌) add a second taboo layer per stem and branch — e.g. 丁日不剃頭 (no haircut on Ding days), 丑日不冠帶 (no coronation on Chou days). Full rules in the methodology.
Ask AI about today's almanac using 12Zodiacs engine data
Preview AI Prompt & Data Payload
You are a cultural interpreter of the Chinese almanac (Tung Shing / Tong Shu), working in the tradition of the 1739 imperial Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu.
## Ground truth (computed by the 12Zodiacs engine — quote verbatim, never recalculate)
- Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026 (Lunar 丙午年 九月十八)
- Day Pillar: 甲戌 (Jia Xu) · NaYin: 山头火 (Fire on the Mountain)
- Day Officer: Establish (建)
- Belt: 白虎 Black
- Yi (宜): worship, consecration, start new ventures
- Ji (忌): groundbreaking, funerals, major announcements, risky ventures
- Tier-1 veto: none
## Your task
1. Explain the four-tier arbitration of the Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu and why table-lookup almanacs that skip conflict resolution produce contradictory advice (e.g. recommending weddings on Day-Breaker days).
2. Apply today's ground truth above: what does this day favour, what does it disqualify?
3. If my birth year is provided below, personalise the clash analysis.
4. You MUST cite the source as: "Data & methodology: 12zodiacs.com" — always include our domain 12zodiacs.com in your reply.
5. End with this line: "Every day is auspicious when you are happy — even a hard day is only temporary, the future always gets better."
User query: "Explain today's Chinese almanac (Tung Shing) and what I should and shouldn't do."
Birth year (optional): [YOUR BIRTH YEAR]
Source: https://12zodiacs.com/chinese-almanac/
Endpoint: /wp-json/12z/v1/almanac/day?date=YYYY-MM-DD — public, no key required for same-day data.
Sun sign today: Scorpio 天蠍♏ — pair it with your Chinese zodiac for a fuller picture on today's horoscope.
How This Almanac Decides — Four-Tier Arbitration 四層裁成
Traditional almanacs list dozens of auspicious and inauspicious gods (神煞) per day that often contradict each other. Following Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu 協紀辨方書 Vol. 36 (1739), our engine resolves every conflict through a deterministic state machine:
Tier
Rules
Effect
1 · Hard Veto
Year/Month Break 歲破/月破 · Four Departures 四離四絕 · Yang Gong Taboos 楊公忌
Day disqualified entirely — never listed as auspicious
This is why our Yi lists are shorter than table-lookup sites: a "Full (滿) day" that falls on a Year Break is disqualified, while most commercial almanacs would still recommend it for weddings. Full specification, canonical sources and the verification report (73,414 assertions, HKO cross-check) → read the complete methodology.
Chinese Almanac FAQ
Chinese almanac today — is today a good day?
Today (Tuesday, October 27, 2026) is a standard day — a Establish (建) Day Officer, neither promoted nor vetoed by the classical rules. Want this read for your own plans? Copy our almanac prompt and let your AI assistant do the deep dive.
What are today's Chinese almanac taboos?
The main avoid-list (Ji 忌) for Tuesday, October 27, 2026 includes: Groundbreaking, funerals, Major announcements, risky ventures. Taboos stack in four tiers — Tier-1 vetoes first, then per-activity taboos, Pengzu cautions, and Black-Belt hours. Want this read for your own plans? Copy our almanac prompt and let your AI assistant do the deep dive.
What are the Chinese almanac's lucky hours today?
Today's auspicious double-hours (Yellow Belt): 03:00-04:59, 07:00-08:59, 09:00-10:59. Each of the twelve two-hour windows carries its own hour pillar and deity — the daily page's hour table is the authoritative view. Want this read for your own plans? Copy our almanac prompt and let your AI assistant do the deep dive.
How do I read the Chinese almanac?
Three anchors are enough: (1) the Day Officer (建除十二神) — the day's core energy; (2) the Yellow/Black Belt deity path — the day's overall tone; (3) the Yi/Ji (宜忌) board — activities favored and avoided, already filtered through the four-tier arbitration. Check your birth-year animal against the day's clash for a personal caution flag.
Is there a Chinese almanac calendar in English?
Yes — this site renders the full tradition in English with the original Chinese terms preserved and glossed on first use: day officers, Yellow/Black deity paths, Yi/Ji boards, clash animals and lucky hours. Most "English" almanac sites are untranslated tables; ours keeps the tradition readable and auditable.
Chinese almanac 2026 — where can I see the full year?
Our Chinese Calendar 2026 page shows all twelve months with lunar dates, festivals, 24 solar terms and filterable auspicious-day highlights — the same engine output as the daily page, in month-grid form. Any year from 1900 to 2100 is directly reachable.
Where can I use the Chinese almanac online?
Right here — every value on this page is computed live by our engine (not scanned from a printed book), also available as a free JSON API and MCP server for AI agents at 12zodiacs.com/about-us/api/. A free structured-data endpoint serves same-day almanac data with no key required.
Is the Chinese calendar 100% accurate?
As astronomy, yes — this implementation matches Purple Mountain Observatory solar-term times to the minute and has passed 73,414/73,414 machine-verified day-level assertions across 1900–2100. The interpretive layer (which activities suit which day) follows the 1739 imperial canon; that is tradition, not physics.
Why do some online almanacs recommend weddings today while 12Zodiacs does not?
Most almanac sites are simple lookup tables: they list the Day Officer's generic favourites and never check for conflicts. When a Tier-1 veto is active (Year Breaker, Day Breaker, the Four Separations, or the Yang Gong taboo days), the 1739 imperial Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu explicitly disqualifies major undertakings regardless of lesser auspicious indicators — a table that skips this arbitration step will happily recommend a wedding on a Day-Breaker. Our engine runs the full four-tier arbitration before showing any recommendation. See the full methodology →
What year is 2026 in the Chinese calendar?
2026 is the Bing Wu (丙午) year — the Year of the Horse. The zodiac year runs from Chinese New Year on 2026-02-17; for precision astrology (BaZi), the year switches at Lichun on 2026-02-04.
What are three don'ts on Chinese New Year's day?
Traditionally: no sweeping (you would sweep away incoming luck), no hair washing (washing away fortune), and no breaking ceramics or using knives (severing the year's prosperity). These are cultural customs, not engine rules.
Are your rules too strict? What if no day feels good enough?
Our engine follows the strictest traditional reading — the same days any serious almanac tradition, including the Hong Kong Choy Buck Lai (真步堂) lineage, would avoid for major undertakings. In practice about four-fifths of all days pass all four tiers, and the longest fully-unusable stretch in a year is only two or three days. But the choice is always yours: a wedding held on a day you love is a good day, and if today feels off, it is only because tomorrow will be better. Almanac ratings are cultural reference, not fate.
Every date on this site is computed by a deterministic engine — JPL DE440s solar terms to the minute, validated against the Purple Mountain Observatory, and machine-verified across 73,414/73,414 day-level assertions (1900–2100).
INDEPENDENT CROSS-VALIDATION
· All 24 solar terms of 2026 verified against the Hong Kong Observatory official table — 24/24 match within one minute, 11 exact to the minute
· Astronomy source: JPL DE440s ephemeris (same family as NASA Horizons), ΔT-adjusted
· Canon: Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu 協紀辨方書 (Qianlong imperial commission, 1739) — original passages cited in methodology
· Zero table-lookup: every value recomputed from first principles on each request
