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Chinese calendar, 20 November 1998
20 November 1998 is lunar month 10, day 2, 1998, the Earth Tiger year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Goat. 27 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Friday
November 1998
Lunar date
10th Month · 2nd Day
一九九八年十月初二
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the Tiger’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 2 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1998-11-20
The daily almanac & observances
辛未 Yin Metal Goat
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Install machinery安机械
- Set up a bed安床
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Receive funds纳财
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Build an embankment筑堤
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Move into a new home入宅
- Treat an illness治病
- Take up a post赴任
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 10 · 30 days
19 November 1998–18 December 1998. 28 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Winter Solstice
22 December 1998 · In parts of northern China people eat dumplings, while Shanghai and some southern communities favour tangyuan; other foods and rites vary locally.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
November 1998 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 9/16
Last quarter
Lunar 9/23
New moon
Lunar 10/1
First quarter
Lunar 10/9
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
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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 Goat · 辛未— 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
- Yin Water Pig · 癸亥— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Tiger · 戊寅— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Roadside Earth · 路旁土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Neck · 亢— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Dragon creature (龙) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- 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 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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