Chinese Almanac
Gregorian perpetual calendar: month cells mark solar terms and practitioner peril days; day sheets and hour slots show peril, broken, and empty badges.
Perpetual month grid
The top of the page is a Gregorian month grid. Move to any year and month, tap a day, and the almanac sheet for that day opens below.
Cells with a solar term show its name. A practitioner peril day shows a peril mark in the top-right corner of the cell before you open the sheet. Year turns at Start of Spring and month turns at jieqi, same calendar as the BaZi Chart page on this site.
Fields on the day sheet
Lunar date and weekday, year, month and day pillars with stem-branch colors and nayin, daily suitable and avoid lists, Peng Zu taboos, void branches for the ten-day cycle, clash and direction, fetal spirit.
Almanac notes: twelve-building day officer, day spirit, lucky or unlucky road, lunar mansion. Lucky and unlucky symbolic stars in two rows, plus shensha for year, month and day pillars and for the hour you select, same day-course rules as the almanac engine.
For weddings, moving in, or opening a business, read suitable and avoid first, then the clash line. Match the animal sign on the Chinese Zodiac Calculator page.
Practitioner peril day (grid and sheet)
A practitioner peril day is one when feng shui practitioners avoid moving the luo pan or opening the compass for a reading. The month cell carries a peril mark; the sheet header repeats the same peril-day note.
That rule is for practitioners, not the same as civilian wedding or move days. If you are not working with a compass on site, you only need to know the mark exists.
Twelve two-hour slots
The lower part of the sheet is a twelve-slot table. Tap a slot for its suitable and avoid lines and to refresh hour-level shensha.
A day that looks fine overall can still have slots that are unsuitable, so choose the slot as well as the day.
Peril hour (slot badge)
On a peril day, only some slots are peril hours, not all twelve. The peril badge on a slot marks a peril hour and belongs with the peril-day mark on the grid and sheet header.
Peril, broken, and empty are three separate badges. One slot can show more than one; each keeps its own meaning.
Broken hour badge
The broken badge is ri po: the slot branch clashes the day branch. It is shown on its own, not merged with peril or empty.
Empty hour badge
The empty badge marks a slot that falls in the day void branches. The sheet body also lists which two branches are void for the current ten-day cycle; the table marks the slots that land on them.
Common almanac and personal chart
This almanac is the same for every visitor. No sign-in and no birth data. To narrow a day for one person, cast four pillars on the BaZi Chart page and read it beside suitable, avoid, clash, and the peril, broken, and empty badges.
Terms on the sheet can be opened for glosses. Shensha and twelve-building notes are read with suitable and avoid, not alone.
FAQ
How do I find a day for a wedding, a move, or a launch?
Move to the target month, tap a date, and check whether suitable lists marriage, moving in, or opening a business, then read avoid and the clash line. After you pick a day, tap each slot in the hour table and steer around broken and empty badges.
What does the peril mark on a month cell mean?
A practitioner peril day. The cell shows a peril mark in the corner; the sheet header says the same. Practitioners avoid moving the luo pan or opening the compass that day.
What does the peril badge on an hour slot mean?
A peril hour. It appears only on peril days and marks the slots when practitioners avoid the compass, continuing the same peril-day rule down to the hour.
What does the broken badge on a slot mean?
Ri po: the slot branch clashes the day branch. The broken badge is separate from peril and empty.
What does the empty badge on a slot mean?
A slot inside the day void branches for the ten-day cycle. The sheet body also lists which two branches are void.
How is this different from the Japanese six-day cycle?
This page follows the Chinese almanac and gives none of those six labels, which pass in a fixed six-day order and describe a whole day at once. Here a day is split into suitable and avoid activities, Peng Zu taboos, the clash direction, the day void branches, and each two-hour slot. The two systems do not translate into one another.
Do I need a personal chart first?
Not for the common almanac. To narrow a day for one person, cast four pillars on the BaZi Chart page, then read it beside this page.
Is my look-up recorded?
No.
