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Chinese calendar, 17 June 1938
17 June 1938 is lunar month 5, day 20, 1938, the Earth Tiger year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Dragon. 15 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Friday
June 1938
Lunar date
5th Month · 20th Day
一九三八年五月二十
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the Tiger’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 20 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1938-06-17
The daily almanac & observances
庚辰 Yang Metal Dragon
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Install an incense altar安香
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Seek medical care求医
- Treat an illness治病
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Prepare a grave in advance开生坟
- Make a coffin合寿木
忌 Traditionally avoid
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 5 · 30 days
29 May 1938–27 June 1938. 10 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
2 August 1938 · Across documented Chinese traditions, women and girls have set out seasonal fruit and held needlework or other skill contests, though forms differ sharply by region and many have faded.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
June 1938 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 5/8
Full moon
Lunar 5/16
Last quarter
Lunar 5/24
New moon
Lunar 6/1
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 Metal Dragon · 庚辰— 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 Earth Horse · 戊午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Tiger · 戊寅— Wood controls 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
- Dragon · 龙— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Dog · 甲戌— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Ghost · 鬼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Goat creature (羊) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against setting warp and weft, saying the loom may stand empty.庚不经络织机虚张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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