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Chinese calendar, 22 May 1960
22 May 1960 is lunar month 4, day 27, 1960, the Metal Rat year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Dog. 18 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Sunday
May 1960
Lunar date
4th Month · 27th Day
一九六〇年四月廿七
Year of the
Metal generates Water in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Rat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 27 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1960-05-22
The daily almanac & observances
庚戌 Yang Metal Dog
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Dog.
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
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Seek medical care求医
- Treat an illness治病
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Trap or capture捕捉
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 4 · 29 days
26 April 1960–24 May 1960. 2 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
29 May 1960 · 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
May 1960 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 4/9
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
Last quarter
Lunar 4/23
New moon
Lunar 5/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
Explore the days around 22 May 1960
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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 Dog · 庚戌— 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 Metal · Xīn 辛 (middle)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Snake · 辛巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Rat · 庚子— Metal generates Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Hairpin and Bracelet Metal · 钗钏金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dog · 狗— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Dragon · 甲辰— 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
- Hold · 执— 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 eating dog meat, saying strange disturbances may reach the bed.戌不吃犬作怪上床Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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