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Chinese calendar, 12 January 1919
12 January 1919 is lunar month 12, day 11, 1918, the Earth Horse year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Rat. 22 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Sunday
January 1919
Lunar date
12th Month · 11th Day
一九一八年腊月十一
Year of the
Fire generates Earth in the Five Phases, so the Horse’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 11 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1919-01-12
The daily almanac & observances
甲子 Yang Wood Rat
The stem gives Wood; 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
- Bathe沐浴
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Lay a foundation起基
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Set up a bed安床
- 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
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Pray for children求嗣
- Travel出行
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Open a storehouse开仓
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
Month 12 · 30 days
2 January 1919–31 January 1919. 19 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
31 January 1919 · 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 1919 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 12/1
First quarter
Lunar 12/8
Full moon
Lunar 12/15
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
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 Wood Rat · 甲子— 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 Wood Ox · 乙丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Horse · 戊午— Fire generates Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Sea Metal · 海中金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Horse · 戊午— 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: 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 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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