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Chinese calendar, 19 May 1925
19 May 1925 is lunar month 4, day 27, 1925, the Wood Ox year. The day pillar is Yin Water Rabbit. 27 named Yi activities; 3 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Tuesday
May 1925
Lunar date
4th Month · 27th Day
一九二五年四月廿七
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Ox’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 27 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1925-05-19
The daily almanac & observances
癸卯 Yin Water Rabbit
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Rabbit.
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
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Travel出行
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Begin learning a craft习艺
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Lay a foundation起基
- Install a mortar or mill安碓磑
- Release or drain water放水
- Dig a pond开池
- Build a storehouse造仓
- Dig a canal开渠
- Plant crops栽种
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Repair a grave修坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 4 · 29 days
23 April 1925–21 May 1925. 2 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
25 June 1925 · 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
May 1925 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 4/9
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
Last quarter
Lunar 4/23
New moon
Lunar leap 4/1
First quarter
Lunar leap 4/10
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 Water Rabbit · 癸卯— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Snake · 辛巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Ox · 乙丑— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Gold-leaf Metal · 金箔金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Fire Rooster · 丁酉— 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
- Open · 开— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against lawsuits, saying one’s case may be weaker than the opponent’s.癸不词讼理弱敌强The verse cautions against digging a well, saying the water may not be sweet.卯不穿井水泉不香Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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