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Chinese calendar, 29 August 1909
29 August 1909 is lunar month 7, day 14, 1909, the Earth Rooster year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Rooster. 14 named Yi activities; 8 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Sunday
August 1909
Lunar date
7th Month · 14th Day
一九〇九年七月十四
Year of the
Earth generates Metal in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Rooster’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 14 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1909-08-29
The daily almanac & observances
辛酉 Yin Metal Rooster
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Rooster.
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Lay a foundation起基
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Set up a bed安床
- Install a door安门
- Dig a canal开渠
- Dig a pond开池
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 7 · 29 days
16 August 1909–13 September 1909. 15 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Ghost Festival
30 August 1909 · In Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Yu Lan tradition, communities offer food to wandering ghosts and perform rites including burning a Ghost Master effigy; other Yu Lan traditions use different sequences.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 1909 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 6/17
Last quarter
Lunar 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
Full moon
Lunar 7/16
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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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
- Yin Metal Rooster · 辛酉— 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.
- Yin Metal · Xīn 辛 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Water Monkey · 壬申— 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
- Pomegranate Wood · 石榴木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rooster · 鸡— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Rabbit · 乙卯— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Room · 房— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Rabbit creature (兔) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Remove · 除— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southwest (西南)
- Blessing 福神: Northwest (西北)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against making sauce, saying the household may not taste it.辛不合酱主人不尝The verse cautions against receiving guests, saying drunken disorder may follow.酉不会客醉坐颠狂Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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