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Chinese calendar, 7 August 1980
7 August 1980 is lunar month 6, day 27, 1980, the Metal Monkey year. The day pillar is Yang Water Rat. 21 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Thursday
August 1980
Lunar date
6th Month · 27th Day
一九八〇年六月廿七
Year of the
Metal is both the year element and the Monkey’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Metal.
Moon phase
Lunar day 27 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1980-08-07
The daily almanac & observances
壬子 Yang Water Rat
The stem gives Water; 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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set up a bed安床
- Plant crops栽种
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 6 · 30 days
12 July 1980–10 August 1980. 3 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
17 August 1980 · 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
August 1980 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
Full moon
Lunar 7/16
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 Water Rat · 壬子— 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 Wood Monkey · 甲申— 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
- Mulberry Wood · 桑柘木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Legs · 奎— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Wolf creature (狼) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Settle · 定— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against drawing water, saying trouble may be hard to guard against.壬不泱水更难提防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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