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Chinese calendar, 27 August 1911
27 August 1911 is lunar month 7, day 4, 1911, the Metal Pig year. The day pillar is Yin Earth Snake. 18 named Yi activities; 7 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Sunday
August 1911
Lunar date
7th Month · 4th Day
一九一一年七月初四
Year of the
Metal generates Water in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Pig’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 4 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1911-08-27
The daily almanac & observances
己巳 Yin Earth Snake
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Snake.
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Build or renovate修造
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Set up a bed安床
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Move residence移徙
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Plant crops栽种
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Burial安葬
- Travel出行
- Make structural beams作梁
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Fell timber伐木
- Build a bridge造桥
Month 7 · 29 days
24 August 1911–21 September 1911. 25 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
30 August 1911 · 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 1911 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar leap 6/8
Full moon
Lunar leap 6/16
Last quarter
Lunar leap 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
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 Earth Snake · 己巳— 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 Fire · Bǐng 丙 (primary)
- Yang Metal · Gēng 庚 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Fire Monkey · 丙申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Pig · 辛亥— Metal generates Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Great Forest Wood · 大林木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Snake · 蛇— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Water Pig · 癸亥— 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
- Receive · 收— 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: North (正北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against handling agreements, saying both parties may lose.己不破券二比并亡The verse cautions against long travel, saying possessions may be hidden or lost.巳不远行财物伏藏Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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