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Chinese calendar, 18 August 1997
18 August 1997 is lunar month 7, day 16, 1997, the Fire Ox year. The day pillar is Yang Water Dragon. 19 named Yi activities; 0 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; full moon.
Monday
August 1997
Lunar date
7th Month · 16th Day
一九九七年七月十六
Year of the
Fire generates Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Ox’s fixed element.
Moon phase
18:56 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1997-08-18
The daily almanac & observances
壬辰 Yang Water Dragon
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Dragon.
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
- Pray for children求嗣
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Lay a foundation起基
- Release or drain water放水
- Build a storehouse造仓
- Open a business or market开市
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- 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
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
忌 Traditionally avoid
- None listed无
Month 7 · 30 days
3 August 1997–1 September 1997. 14 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Mid-Autumn Festival
16 September 1997 · Among Chinese communities in Singapore, families may share mooncakes, pomelo and tea while children carry lanterns, with household practices varying.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
August 1997 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 7/1
First quarter
Lunar 7/9
Full moon
Lunar 7/16
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
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (middle)
- Yin Water · Guǐ 癸 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Ox · 丁丑— Fire generates Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Long-flowing Water · 长流水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dragon · 龙— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Dog · 丙戌— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Net · 毕— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Crow creature (乌) · 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: 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 weeping, saying another bereavement may follow.辰不哭泣必主重丧Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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