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Chinese calendar, 16 March 1980
16 March 1980 is lunar month 1, day 30, 1980, the Metal Monkey year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Rat. 4 named Yi activities; 9 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Sunday
March 1980
Lunar date
1st Month · 30th Day
一九八〇年正月三十
Year of the
Metal is both the year element and the Monkey’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Metal.
Moon phase
Lunar day 30 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1980-03-16
The daily almanac & observances
戊子 Yang Earth Rat
The stem gives Earth; 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
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Acquire property置产
- Fell timber伐木
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Make structural beams作梁
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Prepare a grave in advance开生坟
Month 1 · 30 days
16 February 1980–16 March 1980. This is the final day of the month.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
4 April 1980 · In China, Qingming is commonly marked by tending graves and honouring ancestors, while spring outings form another long-standing strand of the day.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
March 1980 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 1/16
Last quarter
Lunar 1/24
New moon
Lunar 2/1
First quarter
Lunar 2/7
Full moon
Lunar 2/15
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 Rat · 戊子— 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
- Yin Earth Rabbit · 己卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— Metal reinforces Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Thunderbolt Fire · 霹雳火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Emptiness · 虚— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Rat creature (鼠) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Receive · 收— 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 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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