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Chinese calendar, 8 November 2000
8 November 2000 is lunar month 10, day 13, 2000, the Metal Dragon year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Horse. 29 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Wednesday
November 2000
Lunar date
10th Month · 13th Day
二〇〇〇年十月十三
Year of the
Earth generates Metal in the Five Phases, so the Dragon’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 13 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2000-11-08
The daily almanac & observances
庚午 Yang Metal Horse
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- 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
- Set up a bed安床
- Take up a post赴任
- Travel出行
- Move residence移徙
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Fell timber伐木
- Plant crops栽种
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- Acquire livestock纳畜
忌 Traditionally avoid
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 10 · 30 days
27 October 2000–25 November 2000. 17 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
21 December 2000 · In parts of northern China people eat dumplings, while Shanghai and some southern communities favour tangyuan; other foods and rites vary locally.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
November 2000 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 10/9
Full moon
Lunar 10/17
Last quarter
Lunar 10/23
New moon
Lunar 11/1
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 Metal Horse · 庚午— 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 Pig · 丁亥— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰— Earth generates Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Roadside Earth · 路旁土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Horse · 马— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Rat · 甲子— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Three Stars · 参— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Ape creature (猿) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Danger · 危— 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 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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