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Chinese calendar, 16 June 1955
16 June 1955 is lunar month 4, day 26, 1955, the Wood Goat year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Monkey. 21 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Thursday
June 1955
Lunar date
4th Month · 26th Day
一九五五年四月廿六
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Goat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 26 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1955-06-16
The daily almanac & observances
戊申 Yang Earth Monkey
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Monkey.
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
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Pray for children求嗣
- Travel出行
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Fell timber伐木
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Lay a foundation起基
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Plant crops栽种
- Raise livestock牧养
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Burial安葬
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Acquire property置产
- Set up a bed安床
Month 4 · 29 days
22 May 1955–19 June 1955. 3 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
24 June 1955 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
June 1955 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 4/15
Last quarter
Lunar 4/23
New moon
Lunar 5/1
First quarter
Lunar 5/8
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 Earth Monkey · 戊申— 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 Metal · Gēng 庚 (primary)
- Yang Water · Rén 壬 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Goat · 乙未— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Great Post-road Earth · 大驿土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Tiger · 壬寅— 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
- Full · 满— 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 positioning a bed, saying spirits may enter the room.申不安床鬼祟入房Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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