Is the 16th day of the fifth lunar month an auspicious day of the zodiac?

No, there is a "Nine Poisons Festival" in May. The Yellow Calendar was obtained because ancient people imagined the movements and changes of celestial bodies on the basis of the age of the stars and divination, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that the yellow calendar was finalized.

Generally, the yellow calendar is printed and published on a yearly basis, and it can also display many sets of calendars such as solar calendar, lunar calendar and dry calendar, with a large number of rules and contents related to seeking good fortune and avoiding evil.

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Almanac existed in China at the latest during the Warring States Period as a guide book for people's lives. Taiding has a five-year period (1328), and there are more than three million official almanac books.

The ancient almanac was promulgated by the imperial court, such as Taishi Order in Qin and Han Dynasties, Taishi Bureau in Tang Dynasty, Si in Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qin in Ming and Qing Dynasties, etc. From the second year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty to the seventh year of Chongzhen (A.D. 1629 to 1634), the Calendar Bureau under the leadership of Xu Guangqi hired experts to compile the Calendar of Chongzhen.

When the Qing Dynasty was founded, missionaries sorted out the calendar of Chongzhen and presented it to the Qing emperor as a new book of western calendars. For a long time, studying and studying western astronomy at that time was an important task for astronomers. In the Qing dynasty, Qin promulgated the next year's yellow calendar on the first day of October every year.

Previously, the Qin Committee decided on the new calendar according to whether it was changed to yuan, and submitted it to the emperor, who sealed it by decree. Japanese teachers refer to the imperial imperial prescription book, hang up the hall number and publish the "general book" separately.