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Chinese calendar, 15 April 1905
15 April 1905 is lunar month 3, day 11, 1905, the Wood Snake year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Monkey. 20 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Saturday
April 1905
Lunar date
3rd Month · 11th Day
一九〇五年三月十一
Year of the
Wood generates Fire in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Snake’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 11 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1905-04-15
The daily almanac & observances
甲申 Yang Wood Monkey
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Monkey.
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
- Build a vehicle or carriage造车器
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Install machinery安机械
- Carve or engrave雕刻
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Join the roof ridge合脊
- Lay a foundation起基
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Install a door安门
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Burial安葬
- Prepare a grave in advance开生坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Move into a new home入宅
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Dispatch goods or funds出货财
Month 3 · 29 days
5 April 1905–3 May 1905. 18 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
7 June 1905 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
April 1905 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/9
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
Last quarter
Lunar 3/22
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 Wood Monkey · 甲申— 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 Metal · Gēng 庚 (primary)
- Yang Water · Rén 壬 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— Wood generates Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Spring Water · 泉中水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Monkey · 猴— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Tiger · 戊寅— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Root · 氐— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Raccoon dog creature (貉) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Settle · 定— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northeast (东北)
- Blessing 福神: North (正北)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against opening a storehouse, saying possessions may be lost.甲不开仓财物耗散The verse cautions against positioning a bed, saying spirits may enter the room.申不安床鬼祟入房Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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