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Chinese calendar, 30 May 1948
30 May 1948 is lunar month 4, day 22, 1948, the Earth Rat year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Rabbit. 28 named Yi activities; 5 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Sunday
May 1948
Lunar date
4th Month · 22nd Day
一九四八年四月廿二
Year of the
Earth restrains Water in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Rat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 22 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1948-05-30
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
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Travel出行
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Begin learning a craft习艺
- Acupuncture or moxibustion针灸
- Cut hair理发
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Lay a foundation起基
- Build or renovate修造
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Set foundation stones定磉
- Set up a bed安床
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
- Release or drain water放水
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Repair a grave修坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Medical care should follow clinical need; do not postpone treatment because of an almanac entry.
Month 4 · 29 days
9 May 1948–6 June 1948. 7 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
11 June 1948 · 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
May 1948 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
New moon
Lunar 4/1
First quarter
Lunar 4/8
Full moon
Lunar 4/15
Last quarter
Lunar 4/23
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
- Yin Fire Snake · 丁巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Rat · 戊子— Earth controls Water; 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
- Hairy Head · 昴— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Rooster creature (鸡) · 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: 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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