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Chinese calendar, 26 December 1994
26 December 1994 is lunar month 11, day 24, 1994, the Wood Dog year. The day pillar is Yang Fire Dog. 19 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; last quarter.
Monday
December 1994
Lunar date
11th Month · 24th Day
一九九四年冬月廿四
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Dog’s fixed element.
Moon phase
03:07 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1994-12-26
The daily almanac & observances
丙戌 Yang Fire Dog
The stem gives Fire; the branch gives Dog.
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
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Lay a foundation起基
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Place a roof beam归岫
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Join the roof ridge合脊
- Dig a well掘井
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Plant crops栽种
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 11 · 29 days
3 December 1994–31 December 1994. 5 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Laba Festival
8 January 1995 · In many parts of China, Laba is marked with multigrain porridge, while ingredients and related foods such as pickled garlic differ by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
December 1994 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 11/1
First quarter
Lunar 11/8
Full moon
Lunar 11/16
Last quarter
Lunar 11/24
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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Explore the days around 26 December 1994
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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 Fire Dog · 丙戌— 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 Earth · Wù 戊 (primary)
- Yin Metal · Xīn 辛 (middle)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Fire Rat · 丙子— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Wood Dog · 甲戌— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Roof Earth · 屋上土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dog · 狗— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Heart · 心— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Fox creature (狐) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— 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: Southwest (西南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against repairing a stove, saying misfortune may follow.丙不修灶必见灾殃The verse cautions against eating dog meat, saying strange disturbances may reach the bed.戌不吃犬作怪上床Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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