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April 1940 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 8 Apr. Full moon: 22 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 1940 month 2 into 1940 month 3 · Yang Metal Dragon 庚辰 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 06:34:34 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 13:50:52 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 7 April 1940 closes lunar 1940 month 2; lunar 1940 month 3 begins 8 April 1940.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1940
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 1940 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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12/24甲戌Wood Dog22/25乙亥Wood Pig32/26丙子Fire Rat42/27丁丑Fire Ox2/28戊寅Earth TigerPure Brightness62/29己卯Earth Rabbit2/30庚辰Metal Dragon83/1辛巳Metal SnakeLunar month opens93/2壬午Water Horse103/3癸未Water Goat113/4甲申Wood Monkey123/5乙酉Wood Rooster133/6丙戌Fire Dog3/7丁亥Fire Pig153/8戊子Earth Rat163/9己丑Earth Ox173/10庚寅Metal Tiger183/11辛卯Metal Rabbit193/12壬辰Water Dragon203/13癸巳Water SnakeGrain Rain3/14甲午Wood Horse223/15乙未Wood GoatLunar mid-month233/16丙申Fire Monkey243/17丁酉Fire Rooster253/18戊戌Earth Dog263/19己亥Earth Pig273/20庚子Metal Rat3/21辛丑Metal Ox293/22壬寅Water Tiger303/23癸卯Water RabbitThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 1940 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
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 →
Boundaries & marked days
What happens in April 1940
- 8 April 1940 — lunar 1940 month 2 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1940 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 1940 at 06:34:34 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 1940 at 13:50:52 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 8 April 1940 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 22 April 1940 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 1940 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.