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Chinese calendar, 3 August 2036
3 August 2036 is lunar leap month 6, day 12, 2036, the Fire Dragon year. The day pillar is Yang Water Tiger. 24 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Sunday
August 2036
Lunar date
Leap 6th Month · 12th Day
二〇三六年闰六月十二
Year of the
Fire generates Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Dragon’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 12 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2036-08-03
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壬寅 Yang Water Tiger
The stem gives Water; 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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Open a business or market开市
- Sign a contract立券
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Install machinery安机械
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Install a door安门
- Set up a bed安床
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Dispatch goods or funds出货财
- Dig a pond开池
- Plant crops栽种
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Move a coffin移柩
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Visit the sick探病
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Build a bridge造桥
Leap month 6 · 30 days
23 July 2036–21 August 2036. 18 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
28 August 2036 · Across documented Chinese traditions, women and girls have set out seasonal fruit and held needlework or other skill contests, though forms differ sharply by region and many have faded.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 2036 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 6/16
Last quarter
Lunar leap 6/24
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/7
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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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 Tiger · 壬寅— 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 Wood Goat · 乙未— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Fire Dragon · 丙辰— Fire generates Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Gold-leaf Metal · 金箔金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Tiger · 虎— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Monkey · 丙申— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Star · 星— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Horse creature (马) · 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 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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