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Chinese calendar, 5 July 1945
5 July 1945 is lunar month 5, day 26, 1945, the Wood Rooster year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Pig. 21 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Thursday
July 1945
Lunar date
5th Month · 26th Day
一九四五年五月廿六
Year of the
Metal restrains Wood in the Five Phases, so the Rooster’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 26 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1945-07-05
The daily almanac & observances
乙亥 Yin Wood Pig
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Pig.
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
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Travel出行
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Lay a foundation起基
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Install a door安门
- Dig a pond开池
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Open a business or market开市
- Make a coffin合寿木
- Burial安葬
Month 5 · 29 days
10 June 1945–8 July 1945. 3 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
14 August 1945 · Across documented Chinese traditions, women and girls have set out seasonal fruit and held needlework or other skill contests, though forms differ sharply by region and many have faded.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
July 1945 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 5/24
New moon
Lunar 6/1
First quarter
Lunar 6/9
Full moon
Lunar 6/17
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
- Yin Wood Pig · 乙亥— 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 Water · Rén 壬 (primary)
- Yang Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (middle)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Rooster · 乙酉— Metal controls Wood; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Mountain-top Fire · 山头火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Pig · 猪— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Snake · 己巳— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Well · 井— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Wild dog creature (犴) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Hold · 执— 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 marriage, saying it may disadvantage the groom.亥不嫁娶不利新郎Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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