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Chinese calendar, 4 December 1981
4 December 1981 is lunar month 11, day 9, 1981, the Metal Rooster year. The day pillar is Yang Fire Dragon. 24 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Friday
December 1981
Lunar date
11th Month · 9th Day
一九八一年冬月初九
Year of the
Metal is both the year element and the Rooster’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Metal.
Moon phase
Lunar day 9 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1981-12-04
The daily almanac & observances
丙辰 Yang Fire Dragon
The stem gives Fire; the branch gives Dragon.
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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Fell timber伐木
- Make structural beams作梁
- Trap or capture捕捉
- Hunt畋猎
- Make fishing nets结网
- Seek medical care求医
- Treat an illness治病
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Burial安葬
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
忌 Traditionally avoid
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 11 · 30 days
26 November 1981–25 December 1981. 21 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
22 December 1981 · In parts of northern China people eat dumplings, while Shanghai and some southern communities favour tangyuan; other foods and rites vary locally.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
December 1981 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 11/10
Full moon
Lunar 11/16
Last quarter
Lunar 11/23
New moon
Lunar 12/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
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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 Dragon · 丙辰— 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 Earth · Wù 戊 (primary)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (middle)
- Yin Water · Guǐ 癸 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Earth Pig · 己亥— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Rooster · 辛酉— Metal reinforces Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Sand Earth · 沙中土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dragon · 龙— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Metal Dog · 庚戌— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Ghost · 鬼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Goat creature (羊) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Hold · 执— 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 weeping, saying another bereavement may follow.辰不哭泣必主重丧Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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