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Chinese calendar, 16 January 2028
16 January 2028 is lunar month 12, day 20, 2027, the Fire Goat year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Rat. 15 named Yi activities; 8 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Sunday
January 2028
Lunar date
12th Month · 20th Day
二〇二七年腊月二十
Year of the
Fire generates Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Goat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 20 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2028-01-16
The daily almanac & observances
庚子 Yang Metal Rat
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Rat.
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
- Pray for children求嗣
- Bathe沐浴
- Request a prospective bride's name and birth details问名
- Trade交易
- Receive funds纳财
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Repair a grave修坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Train cattle or horses教牛马
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 12 · 29 days
28 December 2027–25 January 2028. 9 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
25 January 2028 · In China, many families share a reunion dinner and stay up late to greet the new year, while the meal and surrounding rituals vary by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
January 2028 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 12/9
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
New moon
Lunar 1/1
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 Metal Rat · 庚子— 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 Water · Guǐ 癸 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Water Ox · 癸丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Goat · 丁未— Fire generates Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Wall Earth · 壁上土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Horse · 甲午— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Emptiness · 虚— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Rat creature (鼠) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Close · 闭— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against setting warp and weft, saying the loom may stand empty.庚不经络织机虚张The verse cautions against divination, saying it may invite trouble.子不问卜自惹祸殃Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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