Green hours run under one of the six auspicious spirits. Times are local, on the traditional two-hour clock.
Two lines of a thousand-year-old mnemonic verse, one for the day's stem and one for its branch. Heritage text, kept for the tradition; read it as such.
A daily almanac gives the general weather of the day. For a wedding, an opening, a contract or a burial, a proper date is selected against the people involved — their charts, the venue's facing, the month's constraints. That is a service, not a lookup. The masters at Guan do it the traditional way.
Ask for a date selection at guan.lifeThe Tong Shu (通書), often called the Chinese almanac or Huang Li (黃曆), is a day-by-day guide that Chinese households have consulted for centuries: what each day's energies favor, what they resist, which hours run smooth and which zodiac sign the day clashes with. It is built from the same sexagenary machinery as BaZi — stems, branches and solar terms — applied to the calendar instead of a person.
The Officer of the Day is one of twelve rotating day-qualities (建除十二神); it sets the day's broad character. The favors / avoid lists are the classical almanac entries for the full day pillar, translated. The clash names the zodiac sign opposite today's branch: if that is your sign, tradition counsels a quieter day, not a hidden one. Auspicious hours follow the day branch through the twelve two-hour watches.
Day qualities are computed by fixed classical rules on the Chinese civil calendar (dates roll at local midnight; solar-term months follow the standard almanac convention). Different almanac houses occasionally disagree on minor entries. And no almanac outranks your own judgment: the tradition itself says the strongest chart beats the weakest date. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice.