Yellow almanacs soon recovered from the earnest efforts of the educationalists. In subsequent popular editions, the selection of auspicious days, marriage prognostications, geomancy, fortunetelling, and charts of the Nine Dragons Who Control the Rains were thrown in with The Aphorisms of Chu Hsi and The Filial Piety Classic and wedded to maps, railway schedules, and tips on body building.
民間黃曆的內容就「精采」多了：九龍治水、芒神形相、牛郎打春…… 之類的民俗圖說之外，編纂者還參照術士專用的「通書」，簡化其中深奧難懂的術數，供一般人擇日、堪輿、相命… …；於是天師祛病圖、九星照命推算法、男女合婚、人生春秋圖……，一一登場。