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Chinese calendar, 7 September 1920
7 September 1920 is lunar month 7, day 25, 1920, the Metal Monkey year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Dragon. 25 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Tuesday
September 1920
Lunar date
7th Month · 25th Day
一九二〇年七月廿五
Year of the
Metal is both the year element and the Monkey’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Metal.
Moon phase
Lunar day 25 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1920-09-07
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
- Install machinery安机械
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Offer rites for wandering spirits普渡
- Travel出行
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Plant crops栽种
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 7 · 29 days
14 August 1920–11 September 1920. 4 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Mid-Autumn Festival
26 September 1920 · 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 1920 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 7/24
New moon
Lunar 8/1
First quarter
Lunar 8/9
Full moon
Lunar 8/17
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
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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
- Yang Wood Monkey · 甲申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— Metal reinforces Metal; 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
- Wings · 翼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Snake creature (蛇) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- 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: 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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