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Chinese calendar, 4 August 1988
4 August 1988 is lunar month 6, day 22, 1988, the Earth Dragon year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Rabbit. 25 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Thursday
August 1988
Lunar date
6th Month · 22nd Day
一九八八年六月廿二
Year of the
Earth is both the year element and the Dragon’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Earth.
Moon phase
Lunar day 22 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1988-08-04
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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Travel出行
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Plant crops栽种
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Dig a well掘井
- Fell timber伐木
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Make a coffin合寿木
Month 6 · 29 days
14 July 1988–11 August 1988. 7 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
18 August 1988 · 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 1988 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 6/23
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
Full moon
Lunar 7/16
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
- Yin Earth Goat · 己未— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Dragon · 戊辰— Earth reinforces Earth; 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
- Complete · 成— 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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