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Chinese calendar, 8 May 1982
8 May 1982 is lunar month 4, day 15, 1982, the Water Dog year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Rabbit. 20 named Yi activities; 7 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; full moon.
Saturday
May 1982
Lunar date
4th Month · 15th Day
一九八二年四月十五
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the Dog’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
08:45 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1982-05-08
The daily almanac & observances
辛卯 Yin Metal Rabbit
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Rabbit.
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 blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Plant crops栽种
- Set up a bed安床
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Move residence移徙
- Lay a foundation起基
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Build a storehouse造仓
- Acquire property置产
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Repair a grave修坟
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 4 · 29 days
24 April 1982–22 May 1982. 14 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
25 June 1982 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
May 1982 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 4/15
Last quarter
Lunar 4/23
New moon
Lunar leap 4/1
First quarter
Lunar leap 4/8
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
- Yin Metal Rabbit · 辛卯— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Water Dog · 壬戌— Earth controls Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Pine and Cypress Wood · 松柏木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Rooster · 乙酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Girl · 女— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Bat creature (蝠) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— 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: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against making sauce, saying the household may not taste it.辛不合酱主人不尝The verse cautions against digging a well, saying the water may not be sweet.卯不穿井水泉不香Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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