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Chinese calendar, 5 January 2012
5 January 2012 is lunar month 12, day 12, 2011, the Metal Rabbit year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Ox. 24 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
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January 2012
Lunar date
12th Month · 12th Day
二〇一一年腊月十二
Year of the
Metal restrains Wood in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Rabbit’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 12 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2012-01-05
The daily almanac & observances
乙丑 Yin Wood Ox
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Ox.
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
- Build a vehicle or carriage造车器
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Build a temple造庙
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Travel出行
- Married woman's visit to her parents归宁
- Begin school入学
- Move into a new home入宅
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Seek medical care求医
- Treat an illness治病
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Lay a foundation起基
- Install a door安门
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
- Burial安葬
- Hold funeral rites行丧
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 12 · 29 days
25 December 2011–22 January 2012. 17 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
22 January 2012 · 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 2012 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/9
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
Explore the days around 5 January 2012
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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 Wood Ox · 乙丑— 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 Water · Guǐ 癸 (middle)
- Yin Metal · Xīn 辛 (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 Rabbit · 辛卯— Metal controls Wood; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Sea Metal · 海中金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Ox · 牛— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Goat · 己未— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Dipper · 斗— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Xiezhi creature (獬) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against planting, saying even many plants may not grow.乙不栽植千株不长The verse cautions against ceremonial dress, saying the wearer may not return home.丑不冠带主不还乡Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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