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Chinese calendar, 3 January 2002
3 January 2002 is lunar month 11, day 20, 2001, the Metal Snake year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Goat. 20 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Thursday
January 2002
Lunar date
11th Month · 20th Day
二〇〇一年冬月二十
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 20 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2002-01-03
The daily almanac & observances
辛未 Yin Metal Goat
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Set up a bed安床
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Cut hair理发
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Dig or open a latrine开厕
- Hunt畋猎
- Begin burial excavation破土
- 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
- Repair a grave修坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 11 · 29 days
15 December 2001–12 January 2002. 9 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Laba Festival
20 January 2002 · 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 2002 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 11/23
New moon
Lunar 12/1
First quarter
Lunar 12/10
Full moon
Lunar 12/17
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
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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 Metal Goat · 辛未— 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
- Yang Metal Rat · 庚子— 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
- Roadside Earth · 路旁土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑— 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
- Danger · 危— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southwest (西南)
- Blessing 福神: Northwest (西北)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against making sauce, saying the household may not taste it.辛不合酱主人不尝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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