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Chinese calendar, 5 March 2026
5 March 2026 is lunar month 1, day 17, 2026, the Fire Horse year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Tiger. 28 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
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March 2026
Lunar date
1st Month · 17th Day
二〇二六年正月十七
Year of the
Fire is both the year element and the Horse’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Fire.
Moon phase
Lunar day 17 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2026-03-05
The daily almanac & observances
戊寅 Yang Earth Tiger
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Tiger.
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
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Install machinery安机械
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Set up a bed安床
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Repair a grave修坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Receive funds纳财
- Build an embankment筑堤
- Build a storehouse造仓
- Repair a wall补垣
- Seal openings塞穴
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Fell timber伐木
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 1 · 30 days
17 February 2026–18 March 2026. 13 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
5 April 2026 · 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 2026 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 1/15
Last quarter
Lunar 1/23
New moon
Lunar 2/1
First quarter
Lunar 2/8
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 Earth Tiger · 戊寅— 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 Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (primary)
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Rabbit · 辛卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午— Fire reinforces Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- City-wall Earth · 城头土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Tiger · 虎— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Monkey · 壬申— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Horn · 角— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Flood dragon creature (蛟) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Close · 闭— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: North (正北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against accepting land, saying it may be inauspicious for the owner.戊不受田田主不祥The verse cautions against ritual offerings, saying spirits may not receive them.寅不祭祀神鬼不尝Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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