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Chinese calendar, 28 October 1945
28 October 1945 is lunar month 9, day 23, 1945, the Wood Rooster year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Horse. 27 named Yi activities; 6 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; last quarter.
Sunday
October 1945
Lunar date
9th Month · 23rd Day
一九四五年九月廿三
Year of the
Metal restrains Wood in the Five Phases, so the Rooster’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
06:30 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1945-10-28
The daily almanac & observances
庚午 Yang Metal Horse
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Horse.
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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- 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
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Build a vehicle or carriage造车器
- Travel出行
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Install a door安门
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Plant crops栽种
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 9 · 30 days
6 October 1945–4 November 1945. 7 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
22 December 1945 · In parts of northern China people eat dumplings, while Shanghai and some southern communities favour tangyuan; other foods and rites vary locally.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
October 1945 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/9
Full moon
Lunar 9/16
Last quarter
Lunar 9/23
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 Horse · 庚午— 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 Fire · Dīng 丁 (primary)
- Yin Earth · Jǐ 己 (middle)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Fire Dog · 丙戌— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Rooster · 乙酉— Metal controls Wood; 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
- Horse · 马— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Rat · 甲子— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Star · 星— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Horse creature (马) · 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: 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 roofing a house, saying its owner may have to make changes.午不苫盖屋主更张Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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