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Chinese calendar, 16 May 2040
16 May 2040 is lunar month 4, day 6, 2040, the Metal Monkey year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Dragon. 16 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Wednesday
May 2040
Lunar date
4th Month · 6th Day
二〇四〇年四月初六
Year of the
Metal is both the year element and the Monkey’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Metal.
Moon phase
Lunar day 6 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2040-05-16
The daily almanac & observances
甲辰 Yang Wood Dragon
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Dragon.
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
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Travel出行
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Build a vehicle or carriage造车器
- Repair a wall补垣
- Seal openings塞穴
- Dig or open a latrine开厕
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 4 · 30 days
11 May 2040–9 June 2040. 24 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
14 June 2040 · 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 2040 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 3/24
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 →
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Explore the days around 16 May 2040
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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 Dragon · 甲辰— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (middle)
- Yin Water · Guǐ 癸 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Snake · 辛巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— Metal reinforces Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Covered-lamp Fire · 覆灯火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dragon · 龙— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Dog · 戊戌— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Winnowing Basket · 箕— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Leopard creature (豹) · 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: 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 weeping, saying another bereavement may follow.辰不哭泣必主重丧Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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