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Chinese calendar, 3 February 2016
3 February 2016 is lunar month 12, day 25, 2015, the Wood Goat year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Rabbit. 24 named Yi activities; 3 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Wednesday
February 2016
Lunar date
12th Month · 25th Day
二〇一五年腊月廿五
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Goat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 25 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2016-02-03
The daily almanac & observances
乙卯 Yin Wood Rabbit
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Rabbit.
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Travel出行
- Begin school入学
- Receive funds纳财
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Begin learning a craft习艺
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Set up a bed安床
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Dispatch goods or funds出货财
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Burial安葬
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Repair a grave修坟
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 12 · 29 days
10 January 2016–7 February 2016. 4 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
7 February 2016 · 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
February 2016 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/8
Full moon
Lunar 1/16
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 Wood Rabbit · 乙卯— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Earth Ox · 己丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Goat · 乙未— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Great Stream Water · 大溪水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Rooster · 己酉— 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
- Full · 满— 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 digging a well, saying the water may not be sweet.卯不穿井水泉不香Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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