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Chinese calendar, 26 September 1919
26 September 1919 is lunar month 8, day 3, 1919, the Earth Goat year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Snake. 14 named Yi activities; 8 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Friday
September 1919
Lunar date
8th Month · 3rd Day
一九一九年八月初三
Year of the
Earth is both the year element and the Goat’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Earth.
Moon phase
Lunar day 3 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1919-09-26
The daily almanac & observances
辛巳 Yin Metal Snake
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Move into a new home入宅
- Set up a bed安床
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Plant crops栽种
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 8 · 30 days
24 September 1919–23 October 1919. 27 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Mid-Autumn Festival
8 October 1919 · 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 1919 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar leap 7/9
Full moon
Lunar leap 7/17
Last quarter
Lunar leap 7/24
New moon
Lunar 8/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
Explore the days around 26 September 1919
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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 Snake · 辛巳— 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
- Yin Water Rooster · 癸酉— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Earth Goat · 己未— Earth reinforces Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- White Wax Metal · 白蜡金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Snake · 蛇— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Pig · 乙亥— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Bond · 娄— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Dog creature (狗) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Complete · 成— 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 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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