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Chinese calendar, 11 August 1905
11 August 1905 is lunar month 7, day 11, 1905, the Wood Snake year. The day pillar is Yang Water Horse. 23 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Friday
August 1905
Lunar date
7th Month · 11th Day
一九〇五年七月十一
Year of the
Wood generates Fire in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Snake’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 11 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1905-08-11
The daily almanac & observances
壬午 Yang Water Horse
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Horse.
Read this stem against your Day Master →Huang Dao and Hei Dao name the day-god cycle. For a particular plan, read its Yi and Ji activities below.
宜 Traditionally suitable
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Offer rites for wandering spirits普渡
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Travel出行
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Open a business or market开市
- Receive funds纳财
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Dispatch goods or funds出货财
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Dig a pond开池
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 7 · 29 days
1 August 1905–29 August 1905. 18 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Ghost Festival
15 August 1905 · In Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Yu Lan tradition, communities offer food to wandering ghosts and perform rites including burning a Ghost Master effigy; other Yu Lan traditions use different sequences.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 1905 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/8
Full moon
Lunar 7/15
Last quarter
Lunar 7/23
New moon
Lunar 8/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
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Calendar terms explained
This day in the traditional cycles
Each result below names this date’s position and explains what the term means.
- Day pillar 日柱
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— this date’s position in the repeating 60-day stem–branch cycle.Hidden stems are stems conventionally contained in the day pillar’s earthly branch. Primary is the main layer; middle and residual are secondary layers.
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (primary)
- Yin Earth · Jǐ 己 (middle)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Wood Monkey · 甲申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— Wood generates Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Willow Wood · 杨柳木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Horse · 马— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Rat · 丙子— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Ox · 牛— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Ox creature (牛) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against drawing water, saying trouble may be hard to guard against.壬不泱水更难提防The verse cautions against roofing a house, saying its owner may have to make changes.午不苫盖屋主更张Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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