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Chinese calendar, 28 June 1971
28 June 1971 is lunar leap month 5, day 6, 1971, the Metal Pig year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Monkey. 25 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Monday
June 1971
Lunar date
Leap 5th Month · 6th Day
一九七一年闰五月初六
Year of the
Metal generates Water in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Pig’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 6 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1971-06-28
The daily almanac & observances
甲申 Yang Wood Monkey
The stem gives Wood; 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
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Fell timber伐木
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Build or renovate修造
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Lay a foundation起基
- Prepare a grave in advance开生坟
- Make a coffin合寿木
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Set up a bed安床
- Dispatch goods or funds出货财
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Begin burial excavation破土
Leap month 5 · 29 days
23 June 1971–21 July 1971. 23 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
27 August 1971 · 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 1971 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 5/9
Full moon
Lunar 5/17
Last quarter
Lunar 5/24
New moon
Lunar leap 5/1
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 Wood Monkey · 甲申— 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 Wood Horse · 甲午— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Pig · 辛亥— Metal generates Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Spring Water · 泉中水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Tiger · 戊寅— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Net · 毕— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Crow creature (乌) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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: Northeast (东北)
- Blessing 福神: North (正北)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against opening a storehouse, saying possessions may be lost.甲不开仓财物耗散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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