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Chinese calendar, 18 April 1947
18 April 1947 is lunar leap month 2, day 27, 1947, the Fire Pig year. The day pillar is Yin Fire Rabbit. 17 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Friday
April 1947
Lunar date
Leap 2nd Month · 27th Day
一九四七年闰二月廿七
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 27 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1947-04-18
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
Leap month 2 · 29 days
23 March 1947–20 April 1947. 2 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
23 June 1947 · 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 1947 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar leap 2/14
Last quarter
Lunar leap 2/22
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 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 Wood Dragon · 甲辰— 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
- 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
- Neck · 亢— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Dragon creature (龙) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- 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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