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Chinese calendar, 28 January 1925
28 January 1925 is lunar month 1, day 5, 1925, the Wood Ox year. The day pillar is Yang Water Rat. 15 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Wednesday
January 1925
Lunar date
1st Month · 5th Day
一九二五年正月初五
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Ox’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 5 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1925-01-28
The daily almanac & observances
壬子 Yang Water Rat
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Rat.
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
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Receive funds纳财
- Set up a bed安床
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Repair a grave修坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Move a coffin移柩
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 1 · 30 days
24 January 1925–22 February 1925. 25 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lantern Festival
7 February 1925 · In Shanghai and many other Chinese communities, people may view lantern displays, solve lantern riddles and eat yuanxiao or tangyuan, with recipes and events varying by place.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
January 1925 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
New moon
Lunar 1/1
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 Rat · 壬子— 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 Water · Guǐ 癸 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Fire Ox · 丁丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Mulberry Wood · 桑柘木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Winnowing Basket · 箕— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Leopard creature (豹) · 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: 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 divination, saying it may invite trouble.子不问卜自惹祸殃Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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