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October 1997 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 8 / 9 / 10. Double Ninth Festival: 10 Oct. New moon: 2 Oct. Full moon: 16 Oct. New moon: 31 Oct. Cold Dew: 8 Oct. Frost's Descent: 23 Oct.
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Lunar 1997 month 8 into 1997 month 9 into 1997 month 10 · Yin Fire Ox 丁丑 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Dog · 庚戌
- Solar terms
- Cold Dew · 8 at 14:05:10 UTC+8; Frost's Descent · 23 at 17:14:45 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 1 October 1997 closes lunar 1997 month 8; lunar 1997 month 9 begins 2 October 1997. 30 October 1997 closes lunar 1997 month 9; lunar 1997 month 10 begins 31 October 1997.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1997
12 lunar months · 355 days · no leap month.
October 1997 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
October 1997 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 9/1
First quarter
Lunar 9/8
Full moon
Lunar 9/15
Last quarter
Lunar 9/22
New moon
Lunar 10/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
Boundaries & marked days
What happens in October 1997
- 2 October 1997 — lunar 1997 month 8 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1997 month 9 opens.
- 31 October 1997 — lunar 1997 month 9 ends the day before, on day 29, and lunar 1997 month 10 opens.
- 8 October 1997 at 14:05:10 UTC+8 — Cold Dew, 寒露 Hánlù, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 23 October 1997 at 17:14:45 UTC+8 — Frost's Descent, 霜降 Shuāngjiàng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 2 October 1997 — the first day of lunar month 9.
- 16 October 1997 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 9, which falls near the full moon.
- 31 October 1997 — the first day of lunar month 10.
- 10 October 1997 — Double Ninth Festival, lunar 9/9. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the double-ninth.