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Chinese calendar, 19 August 1948
19 August 1948 is lunar month 7, day 15, 1948, the Earth Rat year. The day pillar is Yang Fire Rat. 22 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Thursday
August 1948
Lunar date
7th Month · 15th Day
一九四八年七月十五
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Rat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 15 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1948-08-19
The daily almanac & observances
丙子 Yang Fire Rat
The stem gives Fire; the branch gives Rat.
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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Offer rites for wandering spirits普渡
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Travel出行
- Install machinery安机械
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Install a door安门
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Open a business or market开市
- Sign a contract立券
- Acquire property置产
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Build a bridge造桥
Month 7 · 29 days
5 August 1948–2 September 1948. 14 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 1948 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/8
Full moon
Lunar 7/16
Last quarter
Lunar 7/24
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 Fire Rat · 丙子— 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 Water · Guǐ 癸 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Rat · 戊子— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Ravine Water · 涧下水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Metal Horse · 庚午— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Legs · 奎— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Wolf creature (狼) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Settle · 定— 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: Southwest (西南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against repairing a stove, saying misfortune may follow.丙不修灶必见灾殃The verse cautions against divination, saying it may invite trouble.子不问卜自惹祸殃Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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