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Chinese calendar, 12 September 1913
12 September 1913 is lunar month 8, day 12, 1913, the Water Ox year. The day pillar is Yang Fire Monkey. 17 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Friday
September 1913
Lunar date
8th Month · 12th Day
一九一三年八月十二
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the Ox’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 12 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1913-09-12
The daily almanac & observances
丙申 Yang Fire Monkey
The stem gives Fire; 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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Install machinery安机械
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Bathe沐浴
- Fell timber伐木
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Make structural beams作梁
- Install a door安门
- Clean the house扫舍
- Make a coffin合寿木
- Burial安葬
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Repair a grave修坟
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 8 · 29 days
1 September 1913–29 September 1913. 17 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Mid-Autumn Festival
15 September 1913 · Among Chinese communities in Singapore, families may share mooncakes, pomelo and tea while children carry lanterns, with household practices varying.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
September 1913 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 8/1
First quarter
Lunar 8/7
Full moon
Lunar 8/15
Last quarter
Lunar 8/23
New moon
Lunar 9/1
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
- Yang Fire Monkey · 丙申— 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
- Yin Metal Rooster · 辛酉— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Water Ox · 癸丑— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Mountain-foot Fire · 山下火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Metal Tiger · 庚寅— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Ghost · 鬼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Goat creature (羊) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- 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: Southwest (西南)
- Blessing 福神: Northwest (西北)
- Wealth 财神: Southwest (西南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against repairing a stove, saying misfortune may follow.丙不修灶必见灾殃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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