Chinese almanac · Tong Shu 通書
The Tong Shu, the Chinese almanac also called Tung Shing or Huang Li, gives every day a set of traditional labels. Here are the Day Officer and the clashing animal of each day of 2027, and the days that one named classical table lists for five events, all calculated, not copied.
6 November 2026 · Fri
The almanac day in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong time (UTC+8).
The whole month in the almanacPick an event. Under each month are the days whose Day Officer the table lists as favourable for it; a tap opens the day in the month table.
The table names no Day Officer as favourable for a wedding, only the officers to avoid (Po, Ping, Shou, Bi). The days below are the ones the officer rule does not exclude.
The officers follow one another day by day in a fixed order. Jian falls on the day whose branch is the month's own branch (a Tiger day in the Tiger month), and the other eleven follow it.
| Officer | Listed as favourable for | Listed to avoid for |
|---|---|---|
| 建 Jiàn · EstablishThe month's own branch: a beginning, something set up. | Travel | — |
| 除 Chú · RemoveClearing away the old: cleaning, letting go. | — | — |
| 滿 Mǎn · FullFullness and plenty, a full storehouse. | Opening a business, Signing a contract | — |
| 平 Píng · BalanceLevel and even, neither rising nor falling. | — | Wedding, Moving house, Opening a business, Signing a contract, Travel |
| 定 Dìng · StableSettling and fixing what lasts. | — | — |
| 執 Zhí · InitiateHolding and carrying out, taking hold of something. | — | — |
| 破 Pò · DestructionThe branch opposite the month's: breaking, the strongest tension of the month. | — | Wedding, Moving house, Opening a business, Signing a contract, Travel |
| 危 Wēi · DangerA high and exposed place: caution. | — | — |
| 成 Chéng · SuccessCompletion, things coming to fruition. | Moving house, Opening a business | — |
| 收 Shōu · ReceiveGathering in and collecting, the harvest. | — | Wedding, Moving house, Opening a business, Signing a contract, Travel |
| 開 Kāi · OpenOpening and beginning, a door open. | Moving house, Opening a business, Travel | — |
| 閉 Bì · CloseClosing and storing away, the quietest day of the cycle. | — | Wedding, Moving house, Opening a business, Travel |
The favourable and the avoided officers come from one book only: 《欽定協紀辨方書》 (Xieji Bianfang Shu, the almanac manual compiled for the Qianlong court in 1739), chapter 11, "用事", the lines 嫁娶 (wedding), 移徙 (moving house), 開市 (opening a business), 立券交易 (contracts and trade) and 出行 (travel). We use only the Day Officers those lines name; the other day spirits of the same lines (such as 天德, 三合 or 劫煞) are not calculated here.
This is what the almanac tradition assigns to each day, according to one classical table. It is not advice and not a prediction: no date makes an event go well or badly, and nothing here promises luck. Printed almanacs also weigh many other day spirits, so a family almanac or a date-selection master may list different days. Choose your dates for your own reasons.