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Chinese calendar, 13 June 1917
13 June 1917 is lunar month 4, day 24, 1917, the Fire Snake year. The day pillar is Yang Fire Dog. 24 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Wednesday
June 1917
Lunar date
4th Month · 24th Day
一九一七年四月廿四
Year of the
Fire is both the year element and the Snake’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Fire.
Moon phase
Lunar day 24 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1917-06-13
The daily almanac & observances
丙戌 Yang Fire Dog
The stem gives Fire; the branch gives Dog.
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
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Travel出行
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Set up a bed安床
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 4 · 29 days
21 May 1917–18 June 1917. 5 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
23 June 1917 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
June 1917 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
Last quarter
Lunar 4/23
New moon
Lunar 5/1
First quarter
Lunar 5/10
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 Dog · 丙戌— 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 Metal · Xīn 辛 (middle)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Snake · 丁巳— Fire reinforces Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Roof Earth · 屋上土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dog · 狗— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Three Stars · 参— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Ape creature (猿) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Settle · 定— 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 eating dog meat, saying strange disturbances may reach the bed.戌不吃犬作怪上床Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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