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Chinese calendar, 16 May 1933
16 May 1933 is lunar month 4, day 22, 1933, the Water Rooster year. The day pillar is Yang Water Horse. 17 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; last quarter.
Tuesday
May 1933
Lunar date
4th Month · 22nd Day
一九三三年四月廿二
Year of the
Metal generates Water in the Five Phases, so the Rooster’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
20:50 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1933-05-16
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
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Install a door安门
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Plant crops栽种
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Repair a grave修坟
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Set up a bed安床
- Visit the sick探病
- Build or install a stove作灶
Month 4 · 29 days
25 April 1933–23 May 1933. 7 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
28 May 1933 · 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
May 1933 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 4/9
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
Last quarter
Lunar 4/22
New moon
Lunar 5/1
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
- Yin Fire Snake · 丁巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Water Rooster · 癸酉— Metal generates Water; 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
- Encampment · 室— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Pig creature (猪) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Remove · 除— 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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