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Chinese calendar, 14 January 2023
14 January 2023 is lunar month 12, day 23, 2022, the Water Tiger year. The day pillar is Yang Water Monkey. 14 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
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January 2023
Lunar date
12th Month · 23rd Day
二〇二二年腊月廿三
Year of the
Water generates Wood in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Tiger’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 23 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2023-01-14
The daily almanac & observances
壬申 Yang Water Monkey
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Monkey.
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
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Welcome a resident son-in-law纳婿
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 12 · 30 days
23 December 2022–21 January 2023. 7 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
21 January 2023 · 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 2023 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/7
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 Water Monkey · 壬申— 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 Metal · Gēng 庚 (primary)
- Yang Water · Rén 壬 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Water Ox · 癸丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Water Tiger · 壬寅— Water generates Wood; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Sword-edge Metal · 剑锋金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Tiger · 丙寅— 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: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against drawing water, saying trouble may be hard to guard against.壬不泱水更难提防The verse cautions against positioning a bed, saying spirits may enter the room.申不安床鬼祟入房Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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