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Chinese calendar, 21 January 2022
21 January 2022 is lunar month 12, day 19, 2021, the Metal Ox year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Dog. 13 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Friday
January 2022
Lunar date
12th Month · 19th Day
二〇二一年腊月十九
Year of the
Earth generates Metal in the Five Phases, so the Ox’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 19 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2022-01-21
The daily almanac & observances
甲戌 Yang Wood Dog
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Dog.
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Trap or capture捕捉
- Hunt畋猎
- Receive funds纳财
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Burial安葬
- Set up a bed安床
Month 12 · 29 days
3 January 2022–31 January 2022. 10 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
31 January 2022 · 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
January 2022 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 12/1
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
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 January 2022
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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 Wood Dog · 甲戌— 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 Earth · Wù 戊 (primary)
- Yin Metal · Xīn 辛 (middle)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Ox · 辛丑— 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
- Mountain-top Fire · 山头火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dog · 狗— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Dragon · 戊辰— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Ox · 牛— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Ox creature (牛) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Receive · 收— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northeast (东北)
- Blessing 福神: North (正北)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against opening a storehouse, saying possessions may be lost.甲不开仓财物耗散The verse cautions against eating dog meat, saying strange disturbances may reach the bed.戌不吃犬作怪上床Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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