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Chinese calendar, 28 September 1916
28 September 1916 is lunar month 9, day 2, 1916, the Fire Dragon year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Dragon. 21 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
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September 1916
Lunar date
9th Month · 2nd Day
一九一六年九月初二
Year of the
Fire generates Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Dragon’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 2 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1916-09-28
The daily almanac & observances
戊辰 Yang Earth Dragon
The stem gives Earth; 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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set up a bed安床
- Move into a new home入宅
- Open a business or market开市
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Trade交易
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Build a bridge造桥
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Dig a well掘井
Month 9 · 30 days
27 September 1916–26 October 1916. 28 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Double Ninth Festival
5 October 1916 · In Hong Kong, families may visit ancestral graves or hike and picnic in the hills on Chung Yeung, while observance varies across communities.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
September 1916 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 8/8
Full moon
Lunar 8/15
Last quarter
Lunar 8/22
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 Earth Dragon · 戊辰— 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 Fire Rooster · 丁酉— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Fire Dragon · 丙辰— Fire generates Earth; 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
- Dragon · 龙— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Dog · 壬戌— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Legs · 奎— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Wolf creature (狼) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Danger · 危— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: North (正北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against accepting land, saying it may be inauspicious for the owner.戊不受田田主不祥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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