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Chinese calendar, 4 January 1935
4 January 1935 is lunar month 11, day 29, 1934, the Wood Dog year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Dragon. 26 named Yi activities; 7 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Friday
January 1935
Lunar date
11th Month · 29th Day
一九三四年冬月廿九
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Dog’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 29 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1935-01-04
The daily almanac & observances
庚辰 Yang Metal Dragon
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Dragon.
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
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Carve or engrave雕刻
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Install an incense altar安香
- Travel出行
- Begin school入学
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Lay a foundation起基
- Install a door安门
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Dig a well掘井
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 11 · 29 days
7 December 1934–4 January 1935. This is the final day of the month.
Follow the Moon through this month →Laba Festival
12 January 1935 · In many parts of China, Laba is marked with multigrain porridge, while ingredients and related foods such as pickled garlic differ by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
January 1935 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 12/1
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/15
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
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 Metal Dragon · 庚辰— 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 Earth · Wù 戊 (primary)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (middle)
- Yin Water · Guǐ 癸 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Fire Rat · 丙子— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Wood Dog · 甲戌— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- White Wax Metal · 白蜡金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dragon · 龙— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Dog · 甲戌— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Ghost · 鬼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Goat creature (羊) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Settle · 定— 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: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against setting warp and weft, saying the loom may stand empty.庚不经络织机虚张The verse cautions against weeping, saying another bereavement may follow.辰不哭泣必主重丧Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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