Daily calendar conversion
Chinese calendar, 3 July 2004
3 July 2004 is lunar month 5, day 16, 2004, the Wood Monkey year. The day pillar is Yin Water Goat. 24 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Saturday
July 2004
Lunar date
5th Month · 16th Day
二〇〇四年五月十六
Year of the
Metal restrains Wood in the Five Phases, so the Monkey’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 16 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2004-07-03
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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Install machinery安机械
- Build a vehicle or carriage造车器
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Travel出行
- Receive funds纳财
- Move into a new home入宅
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Begin school入学
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Lay a foundation起基
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Raise livestock牧养
- Plant crops栽种
- Install a door安门
- Dig or open a latrine开厕
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
- Build or install a stove作灶
Month 5 · 29 days
18 June 2004–16 July 2004. 13 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
22 August 2004 · Across documented Chinese traditions, women and girls have set out seasonal fruit and held needlework or other skill contests, though forms differ sharply by region and many have faded.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
July 2004 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 5/15
Last quarter
Lunar 5/22
New moon
Lunar 6/1
First quarter
Lunar 6/9
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
- 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
- Yang Metal Horse · 庚午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Wood Monkey · 甲申— Metal controls Wood; 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
- Girl · 女— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Bat creature (蝠) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Remove · 除— 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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