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Chinese calendar, 18 October 1971
18 October 1971 is lunar month 8, day 30, 1971, the Metal Pig year. The day pillar is Yang Fire Rat. 22 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Monday
October 1971
Lunar date
8th Month · 30th Day
一九七一年八月三十
Year of the
Metal generates Water in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Pig’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 30 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1971-10-18
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
- 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
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Request a prospective bride's name and birth details问名
- Move residence移徙
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Dig or open a latrine开厕
- Begin school入学
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set up a bed安床
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Dispatch goods or funds出货财
- Burial安葬
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 8 · 30 days
19 September 1971–18 October 1971. This is the final day of the month.
Follow the Moon through this month →Double Ninth Festival
27 October 1971 · In Hong Kong, families may visit ancestral graves or hike and picnic in the hills on Chung Yeung, while observance varies across communities.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
October 1971 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 8/16
Last quarter
Lunar 8/23
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/9
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 Earth Dog · 戊戌— 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
- 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
- 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: 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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