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Chinese calendar, 15 April 1936
15 April 1936 is lunar month 3, day 24, 1936, the Fire Rat year. The day pillar is Yin Fire Rabbit. 17 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; last quarter.
Wednesday
April 1936
Lunar date
3rd Month · 24th Day
一九三六年三月廿四
Year of the
Water restrains Fire in the Five Phases, so the Rat’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
05:21 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 1936-04-15
The daily almanac & observances
丁卯 Yin Fire Rabbit
The stem gives Fire; 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
- Travel出行
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Set up a bed安床
- Move residence移徙
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Prepare a grave in advance开生坟
- Make a coffin合寿木
- Repair a wall补垣
- Seal openings塞穴
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 3 · 29 days
23 March 1936–20 April 1936. 5 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
23 June 1936 · 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 1936 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 3/16
Last quarter
Lunar 3/24
New moon
Lunar leap 3/1
First quarter
Lunar leap 3/8
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 Rabbit · 丁卯— 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
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Fire Rat · 丙子— Water controls Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Furnace Fire · 炉中火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Metal Rooster · 辛酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Wall · 壁— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Yu beast creature (獝) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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: 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 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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