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Chinese calendar, 21 January 2004
21 January 2004 is lunar month 12, day 30, 2003, the Water Goat year. The day pillar is Yin Earth Pig. 17 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Wednesday
January 2004
Lunar date
12th Month · 30th Day
二〇〇三年腊月三十
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the Goat’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 30 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2004-01-21
The daily almanac & observances
己亥 Yin Earth Pig
The stem gives Earth; 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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Bathe沐浴
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Begin school入学
- Treat an illness治病
- Install a mortar or mill安碓磑
- Dig a well掘井
- Dig a pond开池
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Move into a new home入宅
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Burial安葬
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 12 · 30 days
23 December 2003–21 January 2004. This is the final day of the month.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve · 除夕
In China, many families share a reunion dinner and stay up late to greet the new year, while the meal and surrounding rituals vary by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
January 2004 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/8
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 Earth Pig · 己亥— 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
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Water Goat · 癸未— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Level-ground Wood · 平地木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Pig · 猪— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Water Snake · 癸巳— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Wall · 壁— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Yu beast creature (獝) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— 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: North (正北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against handling agreements, saying both parties may lose.己不破券二比并亡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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