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Chinese calendar, 21 May 2012
21 May 2012 is lunar leap month 4, day 1, 2012, the Water Dragon year. The day pillar is Yang Water Horse. 17 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; new moon.
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May 2012
Lunar date
Leap 4th Month · 1st Day
二〇一二年闰四月初一
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the Dragon’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
07:47 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 2012-05-21
The daily almanac & observances
壬午 Yang Water Horse
The stem gives Water; 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
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Install a door安门
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Plant crops栽种
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Repair a grave修坟
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Set up a bed安床
- Visit the sick探病
- Build or install a stove作灶
Leap month 4 · 29 days
21 May 2012–18 June 2012. 28 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
23 June 2012 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
May 2012 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
Last quarter
Lunar 4/23
New moon
Lunar leap 4/1
First quarter
Lunar leap 4/9
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 21 May 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
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— 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 Snake · 乙巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰— Earth controls Water; 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
- Horse · 马— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Rat · 丙子— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Heart · 心— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Fox creature (狐) · 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: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against drawing water, saying trouble may be hard to guard against.壬不泱水更难提防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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