28 Mansions 廿八宿 鬼 Metal Sheep Gui (Ghost)Pengzu 彭祖 Wu: Do not buy fields or property (戊不受田田主不祥)Zi: Do not ask for divination — invites calamity (子不问卜自惹祸殃)幸運色 Yellow & BrownNayin Fire of Thunder 霹雳火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: Tier-1 veto active (Year Break (岁破)) — major undertakings disqualified
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
Detected: …
23:00-00:59 Beijing UTC+8
子時 Ren Zi
★ 金匮 Jin Kui
Clash: Horse
01:00-02:59 Beijing UTC+8
丑時 Gui Chou
★ 天德 Tian De
Clash: Goat
03:00-04:59 Beijing UTC+8
寅時 Jia Yin
白虎 Bai Hu
Clash: Monkey
05:00-06:59 Beijing UTC+8
卯時 Yi Mao
★ 玉堂 Yu Tang
Clash: Rooster
07:00-08:59 Beijing UTC+8
辰時 Bing Chen
天牢 Tian Lao
Clash: Dog
09:00-10:59 Beijing UTC+8
巳時 Ding Si
玄武 Xuan Wu
Clash: Pig
11:00-12:59 Beijing UTC+8
午時 Wu Wu
★ 司命 Si Ming
Clash: Rat
13:00-14:59 Beijing UTC+8
未時 Ji Wei
勾陈 Gou Chen
Clash: Ox
15:00-16:59 Beijing UTC+8
申時 Geng Shen
★ 青龙 Qing Long
Clash: Tiger
17:00-18:59 Beijing UTC+8
酉時 Xin You
★ 明堂 Ming Tang
Clash: Rabbit
19:00-20:59 Beijing UTC+8
戌時 Ren Xu
天刑 Tian Xing
Clash: Dragon
21:00-22:59 Beijing UTC+8
亥時 Gui Hai
朱雀 Zhu Que
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
TIER-1 VETO DAY
Major undertakings disqualified — Year Break (岁破)
✓ Safe for routine business, maintenance, study & household organization · ✗ No weddings, moves, launches or milestone contracts today — lesser auspicious indicators cannot override this veto. Why →
➜ Next approved moving dates — Sep 13 (Sun) · Sep 18 (Fri) · Sep 20 (Sun)full list →➜ Next approved wedding dates — Sep 18 (Fri) · Sep 30 (Wed) · Oct 13 (Tue)full list →➜ Next approved contract dates — Oct 19 (Mon) · Oct 31 (Sat)full list →➜ Next approved opening dates — Sep 18 (Fri) · Sep 30 (Wed) · Oct 13 (Tue)full list →
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: Friday, September 11, 2026 (Lunar 丙午年 八月初一)
- Day Pillar: 戊子 (Wu Zi) · NaYin: 霹雳火 (Fire of Thunder)
- Day Officer: Balance (平)
- Belt: 司命 Yellow
- Yi (宜): sacrifice & ancestor worship 祭祀 · tidying & sweeping 扫舍, bathing & haircut-free grooming 沐浴 · study, planning & quiet routines 修书
- Ji (忌): major ceremonies, all major undertakings (veto day)
- Tier-1 veto: ACTIVE
## 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: Virgo 處女♍ — 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 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 this page, in month-grid form. Any year from 1900 to 2100 is directly reachable.
Chinese almanac today — is today a good day?
Check today's verdict banner at the top of this page: it computes the full four-tier arbitration live and answers in one line — Tier-1 veto (avoid major undertakings), auspicious, or standard day. Below it: Yi/Ji lists, clash animal, god directions and the twelve lucky hours, all for today's date.
Is there a Chinese almanac calendar in English?
Yes — this site renders the full Tung Shing in English with the original Chinese terms preserved: day officers (建除十二神), Yellow/Black deity paths, Yi/Ji activity boards, clash animals and lucky hours, each term glossed on first use. Most "English" almanac sites are untranslated tables; ours keeps the tradition readable and auditable.
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/api. A free structured-data endpoint serves same-day almanac data with no key required.
What are the main Chinese almanac taboos?
The almanac's taboo layer stacks four tiers: Tier-1 vetoes (Year Break 岁破, Month Break 月破, the Four Separations 四离四绝, Yang Gong's thirteen taboo days) disqualify major undertakings outright; scoped taboos apply per activity; Pengzu stem-branch taboos add daily cautions; and inauspicious deity paths (Black Belt hours) narrow the safe windows. Our engine runs all four before listing any Yi (宜) item.
What are the lucky hours in the Chinese almanac?
Each day carries twelve two-hour windows (時辰), each governed by its own hour pillar and a Yellow or Black Belt deity. Hours on the Yellow Path — ★-marked in our hourly table — are the lucky hours; hours whose branch clashes your birth sign are the ones to avoid. Times are Beijing UTC+8 by convention and auto-convert to your local timezone on this page.
What is today's Chinese lunar calendar?
Today's full Chinese almanac reading — lunar date, day pillar, governing Day Officer, Yellow or Black Belt deity path, auspicious and avoided activities, and the twelve two-hour windows — is computed live on our daily Tung Shing page. The date shown is anchored to New York time for our primary audience, with the underlying astronomy (solar terms to the minute) computed in UTC+8 as the tradition defines it.
What Chinese zodiac are we in right now?
We are in the Year of the Fire Horse (丙午) — 2026 in the sexagenary cycle. The horse year began at Chinese New Year on February 17, 2026. Rat-born readers (1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020) are in their clash year (犯太岁) and see extra caution markers on our daily page's personalizer.
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.
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
