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Tong Shu April 2027

Every day of April 2027 with its day pillar, Day Officer and clashing animal, and what the 《協紀辨方書》 table says about the officer for five events.

The days of April 2027 in the Chinese almanac
Date	Day pillar	Day Officer	Clash	Wedding	Moving house	Opening a business	Signing a contract	Travel
1 Thu	庚戌 Geng Xu	危 Danger	Dragon (甲辰), Sha north	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
2 Fri	辛亥 Xin Hai	成 Success	Snake (乙巳), Sha west	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	not named
3 Sat	壬子 Ren Zi	收 Receive	Horse (丙午), Sha south	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
4 Sun	癸丑 Gui Chou	開 Open	Goat (丁未), Sha east	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	favourable
5 Mon	甲寅 Jia Yin	開 Open	Monkey (戊申), Sha north	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	favourable
6 Tue	乙卯 Yi Mao	閉 Close	Rooster (己酉), Sha west	avoid	avoid	avoid	not named	avoid
7 Wed	丙辰 Bing Chen	建 Establish	Dog (庚戌), Sha south	not named	not named	not named	not named	favourable
8 Thu	丁巳 Ding Si	除 Remove	Pig (辛亥), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
9 Fri	戊午 Wu Wu	滿 Full	Rat (壬子), Sha north	not named	not named	favourable	favourable	not named
10 Sat	己未 Ji Wei	平 Balance	Ox (癸丑), Sha west	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
11 Sun	庚申 Geng Shen	定 Stable	Tiger (甲寅), Sha south	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
12 Mon	辛酉 Xin You	執 Initiate	Rabbit (乙卯), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
13 Tue	壬戌 Ren Xu	破 Destruction	Dragon (丙辰), Sha north	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
14 Wed	癸亥 Gui Hai	危 Danger	Snake (丁巳), Sha west	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
15 Thu	甲子 Jia Zi	成 Success	Horse (戊午), Sha south	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	not named
16 Fri	乙丑 Yi Chou	收 Receive	Goat (己未), Sha east	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
17 Sat	丙寅 Bing Yin	開 Open	Monkey (庚申), Sha north	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	favourable
18 Sun	丁卯 Ding Mao	閉 Close	Rooster (辛酉), Sha west	avoid	avoid	avoid	not named	avoid
19 Mon	戊辰 Wu Chen	建 Establish	Dog (壬戌), Sha south	not named	not named	not named	not named	favourable
20 Tue	己巳 Ji Si	除 Remove	Pig (癸亥), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
21 Wed	庚午 Geng Wu	滿 Full	Rat (甲子), Sha north	not named	not named	favourable	favourable	not named
22 Thu	辛未 Xin Wei	平 Balance	Ox (乙丑), Sha west	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
23 Fri	壬申 Ren Shen	定 Stable	Tiger (丙寅), Sha south	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
24 Sat	癸酉 Gui You	執 Initiate	Rabbit (丁卯), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
25 Sun	甲戌 Jia Xu	破 Destruction	Dragon (戊辰), Sha north	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
26 Mon	乙亥 Yi Hai	危 Danger	Snake (己巳), Sha west	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
27 Tue	丙子 Bing Zi	成 Success	Horse (庚午), Sha south	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	not named
28 Wed	丁丑 Ding Chou	收 Receive	Goat (辛未), Sha east	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
29 Thu	戊寅 Wu Yin	開 Open	Monkey (壬申), Sha north	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	favourable
30 Fri	己卯 Ji Mao	閉 Close	Rooster (癸酉), Sha west	avoid	avoid	avoid	not named	avoid

宜 = the table lists the officer as favourable for the event, 忌 = it lists it among the days to avoid, — = the line does not name this officer.

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How the days are calculated

The day pillar comes from the unbroken cycle of sixty days, the same one as in our BaZi calculator.
The month is the solar month of the Chinese calendar: it begins at one of the twelve Jie solar terms (Li Chun around 4 February, Jing Zhe around 6 March, and so on), calculated from the Sun's position, not at the new Moon.
The Day Officer follows from the month's branch and the day's branch. On the day a Jie begins, the officer of the day before repeats, as the Qing manual 《協紀辨方書》 states (卷四: 每月交節，則疊兩值日).
The clashing animal is the one of the branch opposite the day's branch; the almanac line also names the clashing pillar and the Sha (煞) direction of the day, here as printed: a Rat, Dragon or Monkey day has Sha in the south, an Ox, Snake or Rooster day in the east, a Tiger, Horse or Dog day in the north, a Rabbit, Goat or Pig day in the west.
Clock: days are the calendar days of China Standard Time (UTC+8), which is also the time of Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, as most almanacs print them. In Europe or America the date of a solar term can fall a day earlier.

The table used for the five events

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.

Read chapter 11 on Wikisource (Chinese) ↗

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.

Tong Shu April 2027

The days of April 2027 in the Chinese almanac

How the days are calculated

The table used for the five events