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Chinese calendar, 5 December 2004
5 December 2004 is lunar month 10, day 24, 2004, the Wood Monkey year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Horse. 24 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; last quarter.
Sunday
December 2004
Lunar date
10th Month · 24th Day
二〇〇四年十月廿四
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
08:53 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 2004-12-05
The daily almanac & observances
戊午 Yang Earth Horse
The stem gives Earth; 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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Hunt畋猎
- Make fishing nets结网
- Dig a pond开池
- Dig or open a latrine开厕
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 10 · 30 days
12 November 2004–11 December 2004. 6 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
21 December 2004 · 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
December 2004 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 10/24
New moon
Lunar 11/1
First quarter
Lunar 11/8
Full moon
Lunar 11/15
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 Earth Horse · 戊午— 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 Wood Pig · 乙亥— 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
- Heavenly Fire · 天上火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Horse · 马— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Rat · 壬子— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Star · 星— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Horse creature (马) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- 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: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: North (正北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against accepting land, saying it may be inauspicious for the owner.戊不受田田主不祥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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