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Chinese calendar, 21 March 2024
21 March 2024 is lunar month 2, day 12, 2024, the Wood Dragon year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Monkey. 29 named Yi activities; 1 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Thursday
March 2024
Lunar date
2nd Month · 12th Day
二〇二四年二月十二
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Dragon’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 12 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2024-03-21
The daily almanac & observances
甲申 Yang Wood Monkey
The stem gives Wood; 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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Pray for children求嗣
- Begin school入学
- Cut hair理发
- Fell timber伐木
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Make structural beams作梁
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Build or renovate修造
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Release or drain water放水
- Take up a post赴任
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 2 · 30 days
10 March 2024–8 April 2024. 18 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
4 April 2024 · In China, Qingming is commonly marked by tending graves and honouring ancestors, while spring outings form another long-standing strand of the day.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
March 2024 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 1/23
New moon
Lunar 2/1
First quarter
Lunar 2/8
Full moon
Lunar 2/16
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 March 2024
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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 Monkey · 甲申— 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 Fire Rabbit · 丁卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Wood Dragon · 甲辰— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Spring Water · 泉中水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Tiger · 戊寅— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Legs · 奎— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Wolf creature (狼) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- 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: 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 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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