March 6, 2024 is a Full (满) Day under the 朱雀 Black Belt in the Chinese Almanac. It favors weddings, signing contracts, travel, housewarming; avoid groundbreaking, funerals, major announcements, risky ventures. Zodiac clash: Pig (Sha East).
宜 · Auspicious For
忌 · Avoid
今日建星 · 满 满日 (Full Day)
The Day of Abundance. Full is the moon at its roundest — completeness, harvest, celebration. Traditionally ideal for weddings, signing contracts, grand openings, and celebrations of every kind. One caution the classics note: Full days favor completion so strongly that starting brand-new long projects is better saved for Establish.
今日神煞 · Gods & Spirits
12 Hour Pillars — Yellow vs Black Belt Timeline
Gold = auspicious Yellow Belt hour · Ink = Black Belt hour · hover or tap a segment for details
吉神凶煞 · Daily Spirits & Sha (7 auspicious / 6 caution)
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You are a cultural interpreter of the Chinese Tung Shing (通勝, Chinese Almanac), working in the tradition of the imperial 1739 Qianlong Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu (協紀辨方書). ## Today's Almanac Data (pre-computed by the 12Zodiacs engine — treat as ground truth) - Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - Lunar date: 甲辰年 正月廿六 - Day Pillar / Ri Zhu (日柱): 己巳 (Ji Si) · NaYin: 大林木 (Wood of the Great Forest) - Day Officer / Zhi Shen (值神): Full (满) - Belt: 黑道 Black Belt — caution (朱雀) - Clash / Chong Sha (冲煞): clashes with Pig; unlucky for Pig-born people. Evil direction (Sha): East - Auspicious for / Yi (宜): weddings, signing contracts, travel, housewarming - Avoid / Ji (忌): groundbreaking, funerals, major announcements, risky ventures - Key Spirits / Shen Sha (神煞): day auspicious spirits (日家吉神): 月德合, 相日, 驿马, 天后, 天巫, 福德, 圣心; day caution spirits (日家凶煞): 五虚, 土符, 大煞, 往亡, 重日, 朱雀; salvageable Yellow Belt hours: Chou Hour, Chen Hour, Wu Hour, Wei Hour, Xu Hour, Hai Hour - Solar term context (节气): 惊蛰后1天 ## User's Situation - Birth year: [YOUR BIRTH YEAR] - Chinese zodiac animal: [YOUR ZODIAC ANIMAL] - Event you are planning: [e.g. wedding / signing a contract / moving house / launching a new product / buying a car] ## Your Task 1. Interpret today STRICTLY from the data above. Do NOT calculate or estimate any calendar data yourself (no lunar conversion, no GanZhi, no solar terms). If you cite any date, officer, or spirit, quote it verbatim from above — never generate almanac values that were not provided. 2. If the data above seems insufficient for a question, say so directly instead of guessing. 3. Personalize the reading for the user's event. If the zodiac field was left blank, skip the zodiac-clash personalization rather than assuming one. 4. Use only the Chinese Tung Shing framework. Do not mix in Western astrology, tarot, or horoscope systems. 5. Answer in modern, professional English. Keep Chinese terms with pinyin, e.g. Zhi Shen (值神), Yi (宜), Ji (忌). 6. This is cultural interpretation for reference only — it is not medical, legal, or financial advice. Data provided by the 12Zodiacs.com Tung Shing engine (JPL DE440s astronomical precision + 1739 imperial Qianlong Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu): https://www.12zodiacs.com/tung-shing/
Cultural interpretation only — not medical, legal, or financial advice. Data © 12Zodiacs.com
Today's Reading — Why This Day Feels the Way It Does
On this specific day the pillar Ji Si (己巳) places it under the Full (满) Officer — peak fullness in the twelve-day cycle: harvest results, give thanks, and let ripe matters settle rather than forcing closures. The day falls under the Zhu Que (Vermilion Bird) (朱雀) — a Black Belt deity whose hours demand more selective timing.
The NaYin voice of the pillar is 大林木 Wood of the Great Forest, and the day's protective geometry clashes the Pig — born in years like 1995, 2007, 2019 — who should defer bold joint moves until the window passes. Meanwhile Monkey-born visitors find the day quietly cooperative: the Six Harmony channel is open for negotiation, alliances and reconciliation.
Read together with the hour table above, the practical takeaway: anchor commitments in the Yellow Belt hours, let the Black Belt hours carry routine work, and treat any veto flag as the final word — exactly as the 1739 Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu arbitrates it.
What Is the Tung Shing (通勝)?
The Tung Shing — also written Tong Sheng or Tung Shu (通書), and known in English as the Chinese Almanac, Yellow Calendar, or Imperial Calendar (皇曆) — is the traditional Chinese almanac that families have consulted for over a thousand years to pick auspicious dates for weddings, moves, business openings, and every major undertaking.
The name carries a story: the almanac was originally called Tong Shu (通書, "the all-encompassing book"), but in Cantonese that sounds uncomfortably close to "all lost" (輸). Guangdong publishers flipped the unlucky homophone to Tung Shing (通勝, "all victories") — the reason overseas Chinese families, who grew up with Hong Kong-printed editions, still say Tung Shing today while Mandarin speakers say Tong Shu.
Its lineage is imperial: dating back to oracle-bone divination of the Shang dynasty (c. 1250 BCE) and codified under Qing emperor Qianlong in the 1739 compendium Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu (協紀辨方書), the almanac maps each day onto the twelve Day Officers (建除十二神), the Yellow and Black Belt deities (黃道/黑道), and a four-tier arbitration of auspicious and inauspicious spirits — the exact canon our engine implements with NASA-grade JPL ephemeris astronomy.
Authoritative References
- JPL Solar System Dynamics — Ephemerides — the DE440s planetary data our solar-term computation is built on
- Chinese calendar (Wikipedia) — lunisolar structure, leap months, and the 24 solar terms
- Hong Kong Observatory — 24 Solar Terms — independent observatory reference for term dates
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
What Lunar New Year animal is 2026?
2026 is the Fire Horse (丙午) — the horse in its Fire element pairing, one of the sixty sexagenary combinations. Fire Horse years occur every 60 years (the last was 1966) and carry a reputation in folklore for intensity; classical sources simply treat them as requiring more careful date selection, which our engine applies automatically.
What is the Chinese almanac and how do I read it?
The Tung Shing (通勝) is the traditional Chinese almanac: for each day it gives the lunar date, the governing Day Officer (one of twelve), the deity path (Yellow Belt = auspicious windows), the activities favored and avoided, and lucky hours. Our daily page renders all of it in English with the original Chinese terms preserved — start with the Officer badge and the 宜/avoid board, then check your birth year against the clash animal.
What are lucky numbers in Chinese culture?
The homophone hierarchy: 8 (八, ba ≈ 发, wealth) is luckiest; 6 (六, liu ≈ flow) means smooth progress; 9 (九, jiu ≈ 久, longevity) blesses unions. Four (四) is avoided — it sounds exactly like death (死). Combinations compound: 168 = "one road to prosperity," 520 = "I love you." For almanac purposes the numbers matter most in date selection and red-envelope amounts.
How is this different from a horoscope?
A horoscope reads the sky for your sign; the almanac scores the day itself for activities. Ours is calendar-astronomy, not fortune-telling: solar terms computed from JPL's DE440s ephemeris to the minute, structured by the 1739 imperial canon, machine-verified across every day from 1900 to 2100 — 73,414 day-level assertions, all passing. You can use it with a horoscope, or instead of one.
Why does your almanac show fewer auspicious days than other Chinese calendar sites?
Most commercial wan-nian-li sites use single-layer table lookup: a Stable (定) day automatically lists "marriage, engagement, contracts" from a static tag library — even on a Year Break (岁破) day, when the day branch clashes head-on with the Grand Duke. They never run conflict resolution. The 1739 imperial canon Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu ranks Year/Month Break as "chief of all calamities — all major affairs must yield" (诸煞之首，大事皆避): a Tier-1 veto that overrides every surface blessing. Our engine runs that arbitration, which is why our lists are shorter, safer, and canon-correct rather than padded.
Your page says "veto day" but lists some auspicious items — which is right?
Both, and the banner explains it: on a veto day (Year Break, Month Break, Four Departures, Yang Gong taboos) the engine demotes the day's board to routine, low-stakes matters and shows the officer's usual recommendations as struck-through, suppressed items. That is the canon's own hierarchy — the veto outranks the Day Officer and the Yellow Belt deity. If a site shows "great for marriage" on a Year Break day with no warning, it is reading only the surface layer.
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.
How accurate is this almanac compared to the Hong Kong Observatory?
All 24 solar terms of 2026 verified against the Hong Kong Observatory official solar-term table: 24 of 24 match within one minute, 11 exact to the minute (Start of Spring 2026: February 4, 04:02, matching to the minute). HKO computes from HM Nautical Almanac Office / USNO data while our engine uses JPL's DE440s ephemeris; the residual spread of one minute on some terms is the ΔT Earth-rotation prediction difference between the two observatory-grade ephemerides. You can repeat the check yourself: compare any term instant on our pages against the HKO table.