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Chinese calendar, 1 July 2048
1 July 2048 is lunar month 5, day 21, 2048, the Earth Dragon year. The day pillar is Yang Water Monkey. 27 named Yi activities; 6 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Wednesday
July 2048
Lunar date
5th Month · 21st Day
二〇四八年五月廿一
Year of the
Earth is both the year element and the Dragon’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Earth.
Moon phase
Lunar day 21 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2048-07-01
The daily almanac & observances
壬申 Yang Water Monkey
The stem gives Water; 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
- Install machinery安机械
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Bathe沐浴
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Open a business or market开市
- Build or renovate修造
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Install a mortar or mill安碓磑
- Place a roof beam归岫
- Repair a wall补垣
- Seal openings塞穴
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Release or drain water放水
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Clean the house扫舍
- Prepare a grave in advance开生坟
- Make a coffin合寿木
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 5 · 30 days
11 June 2048–10 July 2048. 9 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
16 August 2048 · 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
July 2048 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 5/23
New moon
Lunar 6/1
First quarter
Lunar 6/9
Full moon
Lunar 6/15
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
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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 Monkey · 壬申— 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
- Yang Earth Horse · 戊午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Dragon · 戊辰— Earth reinforces Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Sword-edge Metal · 剑锋金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Tiger · 丙寅— 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
- Full · 满— 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 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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