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Chinese calendar, 8 May 2029
8 May 2029 is lunar month 3, day 25, 2029, the Earth Rooster year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Dog. 24 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Tuesday
May 2029
Lunar date
3rd Month · 25th Day
二〇二九年三月廿五
Year of the
Earth generates Metal in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Rooster’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 25 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2029-05-08
The daily almanac & observances
戊戌 Yang Earth Dog
The stem gives Earth; 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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Travel出行
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Build or renovate修造
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Plant crops栽种
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Open a business or market开市
- Sign a contract立券
- Build a boat造船
- Make a coffin合寿木
Month 3 · 29 days
14 April 2029–12 May 2029. 4 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
16 June 2029 · 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 2029 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 3/22
New moon
Lunar 4/1
First quarter
Lunar 4/9
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
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 8 May 2029
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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 Dog · 戊戌— 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 Earth Snake · 己巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Earth Rooster · 己酉— Earth generates Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Level-ground Wood · 平地木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dog · 狗— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Encampment · 室— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Pig creature (猪) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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: 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 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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