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Chinese calendar, 30 March 1920
30 March 1920 is lunar month 2, day 11, 1920, the Metal Monkey year. The day pillar is Yin Fire Pig. 14 named Yi activities; 9 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Tuesday
March 1920
Lunar date
2nd Month · 11th Day
一九二〇年二月十一
Year of the
Metal is both the year element and the Monkey’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Metal.
Moon phase
Lunar day 11 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1920-03-30
The daily almanac & observances
丁亥 Yin Fire Pig
The stem gives Fire; the branch gives Pig.
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
- Open a business or market开市
- Sign a contract立券
- Trade交易
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Add a member to the household进人口
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Make structural beams作梁
- Cut hair理发
- Raise livestock牧养
- Burial安葬
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Fell timber伐木
Month 2 · 30 days
20 March 1920–18 April 1920. 19 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
5 April 1920 · In China, Qingming is commonly marked by tending graves and honouring ancestors, while spring outings form another long-standing strand of the day.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
March 1920 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 1/15
Last quarter
Lunar 1/23
New moon
Lunar 2/1
First quarter
Lunar 2/8
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
- Yin Fire Pig · 丁亥— 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 Water · Rén 壬 (primary)
- Yang Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (middle)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Earth Rabbit · 己卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Monkey · 庚申— Metal reinforces Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Roof Earth · 屋上土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Pig · 猪— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Metal Snake · 辛巳— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Tail · 尾— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Tiger creature (虎) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: Southwest (西南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against cutting hair, saying sores may appear.丁不剃头头必生疮The verse cautions against marriage, saying it may disadvantage the groom.亥不嫁娶不利新郎Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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