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Chinese calendar, 21 February 1944
21 February 1944 is lunar month 1, day 28, 1944, the Wood Monkey year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Rabbit. 24 named Yi activities; 0 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Monday
February 1944
Lunar date
1st Month · 28th Day
一九四四年正月廿八
Year of the
Metal restrains Wood in the Five Phases, so the Monkey’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 28 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1944-02-21
The daily almanac & observances
乙卯 Yin Wood Rabbit
The stem gives Wood; 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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- 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
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
- None listed无
Month 1 · 30 days
25 January 1944–23 February 1944. 2 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
5 April 1944 · 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
February 1944 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 1/8
Full moon
Lunar 1/16
Last quarter
Lunar 1/24
New moon
Lunar 2/1
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 Wood Rabbit · 乙卯— 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 Fire Tiger · 丙寅— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Wood Monkey · 甲申— Metal controls Wood; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Great Stream Water · 大溪水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Rooster · 己酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Extended Net · 张— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Deer creature (鹿) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Remove · 除— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against planting, saying even many plants may not grow.乙不栽植千株不长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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