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October 1976 has 31 days, spanning lunar months leap 8 / 9. Double Ninth Festival: 31 Oct. Full moon: 8 Oct. New moon: 23 Oct. Cold Dew: 8 Oct. Frost's Descent: 23 Oct.
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Lunar 1976 leap month 8 into 1976 month 9 · Yang Fire Dragon 丙辰 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Earth Dog · 戊戌
- Solar terms
- Cold Dew · 8 at 11:58:03 UTC+8; Frost's Descent · 23 at 14:58:01 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 22 October 1976 closes lunar 1976 leap month 8; lunar 1976 month 9 begins 23 October 1976.
Lunar-year structure
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Lunar 1976
13 lunar months · 384 days · leap month 8 (29 days).
October 1976 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
October 1976 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 8/15
Last quarter
Lunar leap 8/23
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/8
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
Boundaries & marked days
What happens in October 1976
- 23 October 1976 — lunar 1976 leap month 8 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1976 month 9 opens.
- 8 October 1976 at 11:58:03 UTC+8 — Cold Dew, 寒露 Hánlù, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 23 October 1976 at 14:58:01 UTC+8 — Frost's Descent, 霜降 Shuāngjiàng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 8 October 1976 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 8, which falls near the full moon.
- 23 October 1976 — the first day of lunar month 9.
- 31 October 1976 — Double Ninth Festival, lunar 9/9. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the double-ninth.