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Chinese calendar, 16 June 1920
16 June 1920 is lunar month 5, day 1, 1920, the Metal Monkey year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Snake. 17 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; new moon.
Wednesday
June 1920
Lunar date
5th Month · 1st Day
一九二〇年五月初一
Year of the
Metal is both the year element and the Monkey’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Metal.
Moon phase
21:41 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1920-06-16
The daily almanac & observances
乙巳 Yin Wood Snake
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Snake.
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
- Pray for children求嗣
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Lay a foundation起基
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Install a door安门
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Build an embankment筑堤
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 5 · 30 days
16 June 1920–15 July 1920. 29 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
20 June 1920 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
June 1920 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
Last quarter
Lunar 4/24
New moon
Lunar 5/1
First quarter
Lunar 5/8
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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Explore the days around 16 June 1920
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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
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— 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.
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (primary)
- Yang Metal · Gēng 庚 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— Metal reinforces Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Covered-lamp Fire · 覆灯火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Snake · 蛇— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Pig · 己亥— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Chariot · 轸— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Earthworm creature (蚓) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Close · 闭— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against planting, saying even many plants may not grow.乙不栽植千株不长The verse cautions against long travel, saying possessions may be hidden or lost.巳不远行财物伏藏Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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