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Chinese calendar, 20 December 2017
20 December 2017 is lunar month 11, day 3, 2017, the Fire Rooster year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Snake. 19 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Wednesday
December 2017
Lunar date
11th Month · 3rd Day
二〇一七年冬月初三
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 3 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2017-12-20
The daily almanac & observances
辛巳 Yin Metal Snake
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Snake.
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
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Build or renovate修造
- Lay a foundation起基
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Join the roof ridge合脊
- Install a door安门
- Install a mortar or mill安碓磑
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Travel出行
- Dig a well掘井
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Burial安葬
Month 11 · 30 days
18 December 2017–16 January 2018. 27 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
22 December 2017 · 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 2017 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 10/16
Last quarter
Lunar 10/23
New moon
Lunar 11/1
First quarter
Lunar 11/9
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 20 December 2017
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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 Metal Snake · 辛巳— 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.
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (primary)
- Yang Metal · Gēng 庚 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Water Rat · 壬子— 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
- White Wax Metal · 白蜡金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Snake · 蛇— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Pig · 乙亥— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Chariot · 轸— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Earthworm creature (蚓) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Hold · 执— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southwest (西南)
- Blessing 福神: Northwest (西北)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against making sauce, saying the household may not taste it.辛不合酱主人不尝The verse cautions against long travel, saying possessions may be hidden or lost.巳不远行财物伏藏Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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