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Chinese calendar, 10 February 1988
10 February 1988 is lunar month 12, day 23, 1987, the Fire Rabbit year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Goat. 23 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Wednesday
February 1988
Lunar date
12th Month · 23rd Day
一九八七年腊月廿三
Year of the
Wood generates Fire in the Five Phases, so the Rabbit’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 23 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1988-02-10
The daily almanac & observances
乙未 Yin Wood Goat
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Goat.
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
- Give thanks to deities酬神
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Set up a bed安床
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Install an incense altar安香
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Fish取渔
- Trap or capture捕捉
- Fell timber伐木
- Install a door安门
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 12 · 29 days
19 January 1988–16 February 1988. 6 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
16 February 1988 · In China, many families share a reunion dinner and stay up late to greet the new year, while the meal and surrounding rituals vary by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 1988 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/8
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 Wood Goat · 乙未— 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 Earth · Jǐ 己 (primary)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (middle)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Wood Tiger · 甲寅— 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
- Sand Metal · 沙中金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Ox · 己丑— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Wall · 壁— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Yu beast creature (獝) · 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: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against planting, saying even many plants may not grow.乙不栽植千株不长The verse cautions against taking medicine, saying harm may enter the body.未不服药毒气入肠Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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