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Tong Shu January 2027

Every day of January 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 January 2027 in the Chinese almanac
Date	Day pillar	Day Officer	Clash	Wedding	Moving house	Opening a business	Signing a contract	Travel
1 Fri	庚辰 Geng Chen	定 Stable	Dog (甲戌), Sha south	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
2 Sat	辛巳 Xin Si	執 Initiate	Pig (乙亥), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
3 Sun	壬午 Ren Wu	破 Destruction	Rat (丙子), Sha north	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
4 Mon	癸未 Gui Wei	危 Danger	Ox (丁丑), Sha west	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
5 Tue	甲申 Jia Shen	危 Danger	Tiger (戊寅), Sha south	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
6 Wed	乙酉 Yi You	成 Success	Rabbit (己卯), Sha east	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	not named
7 Thu	丙戌 Bing Xu	收 Receive	Dragon (庚辰), Sha north	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
8 Fri	丁亥 Ding Hai	開 Open	Snake (辛巳), Sha west	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	favourable
9 Sat	戊子 Wu Zi	閉 Close	Horse (壬午), Sha south	avoid	avoid	avoid	not named	avoid
10 Sun	己丑 Ji Chou	建 Establish	Goat (癸未), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	favourable
11 Mon	庚寅 Geng Yin	除 Remove	Monkey (甲申), Sha north	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
12 Tue	辛卯 Xin Mao	滿 Full	Rooster (乙酉), Sha west	not named	not named	favourable	favourable	not named
13 Wed	壬辰 Ren Chen	平 Balance	Dog (丙戌), Sha south	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
14 Thu	癸巳 Gui Si	定 Stable	Pig (丁亥), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
15 Fri	甲午 Jia Wu	執 Initiate	Rat (戊子), Sha north	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
16 Sat	乙未 Yi Wei	破 Destruction	Ox (己丑), Sha west	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
17 Sun	丙申 Bing Shen	危 Danger	Tiger (庚寅), Sha south	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
18 Mon	丁酉 Ding You	成 Success	Rabbit (辛卯), Sha east	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	not named
19 Tue	戊戌 Wu Xu	收 Receive	Dragon (壬辰), Sha north	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
20 Wed	己亥 Ji Hai	開 Open	Snake (癸巳), Sha west	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	favourable
21 Thu	庚子 Geng Zi	閉 Close	Horse (甲午), Sha south	avoid	avoid	avoid	not named	avoid
22 Fri	辛丑 Xin Chou	建 Establish	Goat (乙未), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	favourable
23 Sat	壬寅 Ren Yin	除 Remove	Monkey (丙申), Sha north	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
24 Sun	癸卯 Gui Mao	滿 Full	Rooster (丁酉), Sha west	not named	not named	favourable	favourable	not named
25 Mon	甲辰 Jia Chen	平 Balance	Dog (戊戌), Sha south	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
26 Tue	乙巳 Yi Si	定 Stable	Pig (己亥), Sha east	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
27 Wed	丙午 Bing Wu	執 Initiate	Rat (庚子), Sha north	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
28 Thu	丁未 Ding Wei	破 Destruction	Ox (辛丑), Sha west	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid
29 Fri	戊申 Wu Shen	危 Danger	Tiger (壬寅), Sha south	not named	not named	not named	not named	not named
30 Sat	己酉 Ji You	成 Success	Rabbit (癸卯), Sha east	not named	favourable	favourable	not named	not named
31 Sun	庚戌 Geng Xu	收 Receive	Dragon (甲辰), Sha north	avoid	avoid	avoid	avoid	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 January 2027

The days of January 2027 in the Chinese almanac

How the days are calculated

The table used for the five events