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Chinese calendar, 26 August 1923
26 August 1923 is lunar month 7, day 15, 1923, the Water Pig year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Goat. 16 named Yi activities; 6 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; full moon.
Sunday
August 1923
Lunar date
7th Month · 15th Day
一九二三年七月十五
Year of the
Water is both the year element and the Pig’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Water.
Moon phase
18:29 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1923-08-26
The daily almanac & observances
辛未 Yin Metal Goat
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Goat.
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
- Travel出行
- Make structural beams作梁
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set up a bed安床
- Repair a wall补垣
- Seal openings塞穴
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- Move a coffin移柩
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Move into a new home入宅
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Acupuncture or moxibustion针灸
- Dig a well掘井
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 7 · 30 days
12 August 1923–10 September 1923. 15 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Ghost Festival · 中元节
In Hong Kong's Cheung Chau Yu Lan tradition, communities offer food to wandering ghosts and perform rites including burning a Ghost Master effigy; other Yu Lan traditions use different sequences.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 1923 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/8
Full moon
Lunar 7/15
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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Explore the days around 26 August 1923
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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 Goat · 辛未— 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.
- Yin Earth · Jǐ 己 (primary)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (middle)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Water Pig · 癸亥— Water reinforces Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Roadside Earth · 路旁土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Hairy Head · 昴— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Rooster creature (鸡) · 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: 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 taking medicine, saying harm may enter the body.未不服药毒气入肠Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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