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Chinese calendar, 6 March 1981
6 March 1981 is lunar month 2, day 1, 1981, the Metal Rooster year. The day pillar is Yin Water Goat. 28 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; new moon.
Friday
March 1981
Lunar date
2nd Month · 1st Day
一九八一年二月初一
Year of the
Metal is both the year element and the Rooster’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Metal.
Moon phase
18:31 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1981-03-06
The daily almanac & observances
癸未 Yin Water Goat
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Goat.
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Install machinery安机械
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Install a door安门
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Begin school入学
- Travel出行
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Release or drain water放水
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Sign a contract立券
- Set up a loom's warp经络
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 2 · 30 days
6 March 1981–4 April 1981. 29 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
5 April 1981 · In China, Qingming is commonly marked by tending graves and honouring ancestors, while spring outings form another long-standing strand of the day.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
March 1981 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 2/1
First quarter
Lunar 2/8
Full moon
Lunar 2/15
Last quarter
Lunar 2/24
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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Explore the days around 6 March 1981
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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 Water Goat · 癸未— 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 Earth · Jǐ 己 (primary)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (middle)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Rabbit · 辛卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Rooster · 辛酉— Metal reinforces Metal; 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
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Fire Ox · 丁丑— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Neck · 亢— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Dragon creature (龙) · 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: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against lawsuits, saying one’s case may be weaker than the opponent’s.癸不词讼理弱敌强The verse cautions against taking medicine, saying harm may enter the body.未不服药毒气入肠Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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