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Chinese calendar, 24 March 1987
24 March 1987 is lunar month 2, day 25, 1987, the Fire Rabbit year. The day pillar is Yang Water Monkey. 20 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Tuesday
March 1987
Lunar date
2nd Month · 25th Day
一九八七年二月廿五
Year of the
Wood generates Fire in the Five Phases, so the Rabbit’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 25 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1987-03-24
The daily almanac & observances
壬申 Yang Water Monkey
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Monkey.
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
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Lay a foundation起基
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Bathe沐浴
- Clean the house扫舍
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Fell timber伐木
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 2 · 29 days
28 February 1987–28 March 1987. 4 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
5 April 1987 · In China, Qingming is commonly marked by tending graves and honouring ancestors, while spring outings form another long-standing strand of the day.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
March 1987 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 2/8
Full moon
Lunar 2/16
Last quarter
Lunar 2/24
New moon
Lunar 3/1
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
Explore the days around 24 March 1987
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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 Water Monkey · 壬申— 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 Metal · Gēng 庚 (primary)
- Yang Water · Rén 壬 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Water Rabbit · 癸卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Rabbit · 丁卯— Wood generates Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Sword-edge Metal · 剑锋金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Tiger · 丙寅— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Wings · 翼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Snake creature (蛇) · 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: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against drawing water, saying trouble may be hard to guard against.壬不泱水更难提防The verse cautions against positioning a bed, saying spirits may enter the room.申不安床鬼祟入房Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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