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Chinese calendar, 1 August 1983
1 August 1983 is lunar month 6, day 23, 1983, the Water Pig year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Rooster. 18 named Yi activities; 0 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
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August 1983
Lunar date
6th Month · 23rd Day
一九八三年六月廿三
Year of the
Water is both the year element and the Pig’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Water.
Moon phase
Lunar day 23 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1983-08-01
The daily almanac & observances
辛酉 Yin Metal Rooster
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Travel出行
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Welcome a resident son-in-law纳婿
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Raise livestock牧养
- Prepare a grave in advance开生坟
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
忌 Traditionally avoid
- None listed无
Month 6 · 30 days
10 July 1983–8 August 1983. 7 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
15 August 1983 · 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 1983 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 6/24
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/7
Full moon
Lunar 7/15
Last quarter
Lunar 7/23
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 Rooster · 辛酉— 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 Earth Goat · 己未— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Water Pig · 癸亥— Water reinforces Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Pomegranate Wood · 石榴木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rooster · 鸡— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Rabbit · 乙卯— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Rooftop · 危— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Swallow creature (燕) · 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: 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 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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