Daily calendar conversion
Chinese calendar, 4 November 1982
4 November 1982 is lunar month 9, day 19, 1982, the Water Dog year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Rabbit. 25 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Thursday
November 1982
Lunar date
9th Month · 19th Day
一九八二年九月十九
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 19 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1982-11-04
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
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Build a temple造庙
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Install machinery安机械
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Receive funds纳财
- Begin learning a craft习艺
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Seek medical care求医
- Treat an illness治病
- Dig a pond开池
- Dig or open a latrine开厕
- Hunt畋猎
- Make fishing nets结网
- Plant crops栽种
- Raise livestock牧养
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
忌 Traditionally avoid
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 9 · 29 days
17 October 1982–14 November 1982. 10 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
22 December 1982 · 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
November 1982 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 9/16
Last quarter
Lunar 9/23
New moon
Lunar 10/1
First quarter
Lunar 10/10
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
- Yang Metal Dog · 庚戌— 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
- Well · 井— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Wild dog creature (犴) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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: 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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