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Chinese calendar, 13 July 1982
13 July 1982 is lunar month 5, day 23, 1982, the Water Dog year. The day pillar is Yin Fire Rooster. 19 named Yi activities; 8 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Tuesday
July 1982
Lunar date
5th Month · 23rd Day
一九八二年五月廿三
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
Lunar day 23 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1982-07-13
The daily almanac & observances
丁酉 Yin Fire Rooster
The stem gives Fire; the branch gives Rooster.
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
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Build a vehicle or carriage造车器
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set up a bed安床
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Plant crops栽种
- Raise livestock牧养
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 5 · 30 days
21 June 1982–20 July 1982. 7 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
25 August 1982 · 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
July 1982 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 5/16
Last quarter
Lunar 5/24
New moon
Lunar 6/1
First quarter
Lunar 6/8
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 Fire Rooster · 丁酉— 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 Metal · Xīn 辛 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Fire Goat · 丁未— 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
- Mountain-foot Fire · 山下火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rooster · 鸡— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Metal Rabbit · 辛卯— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Turtle Beak · 觜— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Monkey creature (猴) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Full · 满— 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: Southwest (西南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against cutting hair, saying sores may appear.丁不剃头头必生疮The verse cautions against receiving guests, saying drunken disorder may follow.酉不会客醉坐颠狂Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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