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Chinese calendar, 1 February 1947
1 February 1947 is lunar month 1, day 11, 1947, the Fire Pig year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Pig. 24 named Yi activities; 6 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
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February 1947
Lunar date
1st Month · 11th Day
一九四七年正月十一
Year of the
Water restrains Fire in the Five Phases, so the Pig’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 11 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1947-02-01
The daily almanac & observances
辛亥 Yin Metal Pig
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Bathe沐浴
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Open a business or market开市
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Make structural beams作梁
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Fell timber伐木
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Install a door安门
- Set up a bed安床
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Raise livestock牧养
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
- Dig a well掘井
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Build a temple造庙
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Travel出行
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Burial安葬
- Hold funeral rites行丧
Month 1 · 30 days
22 January 1947–20 February 1947. 19 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lantern Festival
5 February 1947 · In Shanghai and many other Chinese communities, people may view lantern displays, solve lantern riddles and eat yuanxiao or tangyuan, with recipes and events varying by place.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 1947 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 Metal Pig · 辛亥— 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 Metal Ox · 辛丑— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Pig · 丁亥— Water controls Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Hairpin and Bracelet Metal · 钗钏金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Pig · 猪— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Girl · 女— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Bat creature (蝠) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- 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: Southwest (西南)
- Blessing 福神: Northwest (西北)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against making sauce, saying the household may not taste it.辛不合酱主人不尝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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