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Chinese calendar, 20 June 2001
20 June 2001 is lunar leap month 4, day 29, 2001, the Metal Snake year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Tiger. 15 named Yi activities; 8 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Wednesday
June 2001
Lunar date
Leap 4th Month · 29th Day
二〇〇一年闰四月廿九
Year of the
Fire restrains Metal in the Five Phases, so the Snake’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 29 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2001-06-20
The daily almanac & observances
甲寅 Yang Wood Tiger
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Tiger.
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
- Receive funds纳财
- Plant crops栽种
- Set up a bed安床
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
Leap month 4 · 29 days
23 May 2001–20 June 2001. This is the final day of the month.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
25 June 2001 · 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
June 2001 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 4/15
Last quarter
Lunar leap 4/23
New moon
Lunar 5/1
First quarter
Lunar 5/8
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 Wood Tiger · 甲寅— 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 Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (primary)
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Wood Horse · 甲午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Snake · 辛巳— Fire controls Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Great Stream Water · 大溪水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Tiger · 虎— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申— 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
- Complete · 成— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northeast (东北)
- Blessing 福神: North (正北)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against opening a storehouse, saying possessions may be lost.甲不开仓财物耗散The verse cautions against ritual offerings, saying spirits may not receive them.寅不祭祀神鬼不尝Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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20 June 2001 corresponds to lunar year 2001, the leap occurrence of month 4, day 29, in the 辛巳 year — the Year of the Snake. You can enter another date in the date converter.
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