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Chinese calendar, 13 May 2017
13 May 2017 is lunar month 4, day 18, 2017, the Fire Rooster year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Rat. 21 named Yi activities; 3 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
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May 2017
Lunar date
4th Month · 18th Day
二〇一七年四月十八
Year of the
Fire restrains Metal in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Rooster’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 18 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2017-05-13
The daily almanac & observances
庚子 Yang Metal Rat
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Rat.
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
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Plant crops栽种
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Burial安葬
- Repair a grave修坟
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 4 · 30 days
26 April 2017–25 May 2017. 12 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
30 May 2017 · 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 2017 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 4/8
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
Last quarter
Lunar 4/24
New moon
Lunar 5/1
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 Metal Rat · 庚子— 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 Water · Guǐ 癸 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Rooster · 丁酉— Fire controls Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Wall Earth · 壁上土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Horse · 甲午— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Root · 氐— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Raccoon dog creature (貉) · 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: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against setting warp and weft, saying the loom may stand empty.庚不经络织机虚张The verse cautions against divination, saying it may invite trouble.子不问卜自惹祸殃Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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