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Chinese calendar, 7 May 2021
7 May 2021 is lunar month 3, day 26, 2021, the Metal Ox year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Rabbit. 28 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Friday
May 2021
Lunar date
3rd Month · 26th Day
二〇二一年三月廿六
Year of the
Earth generates Metal in the Five Phases, so the Ox’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 26 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2021-05-07
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Travel出行
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Begin learning a craft习艺
- Acupuncture or moxibustion针灸
- Cut hair理发
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Lay a foundation起基
- Build or renovate修造
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Set up a bed安床
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Release or drain water放水
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Repair a grave修坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 3 · 30 days
12 April 2021–11 May 2021. 4 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
14 June 2021 · 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 2021 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
New moon
Lunar 4/1
First quarter
Lunar 4/9
Full moon
Lunar 4/15
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 7 May 2021
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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 Water Snake · 癸巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Ox · 辛丑— Earth generates Metal; 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
- Neck · 亢— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Dragon creature (龙) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— 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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