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Chinese calendar, 14 April 1955
14 April 1955 is lunar month 3, day 22, 1955, the Wood Goat year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Snake. 14 named Yi activities; 8 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Thursday
April 1955
Lunar date
3rd Month · 22nd Day
一九五五年三月廿二
Year of the
Wood restrains Earth in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Goat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 22 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1955-04-14
The daily almanac & observances
乙巳 Yin Wood Snake
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Snake.
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
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Pray for children求嗣
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Fell timber伐木
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Build a livestock enclosure造畜稠
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 3 · 29 days
24 March 1955–21 April 1955. 7 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
24 June 1955 · 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 1955 moon phases
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
New moon
Lunar leap 3/1
First quarter
Lunar leap 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 Wood Snake · 乙巳— 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 Fire · Bǐng 丙 (primary)
- Yang Metal · Gēng 庚 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Metal Dragon · 庚辰— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Goat · 乙未— Wood controls Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Covered-lamp Fire · 覆灯火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Snake · 蛇— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Pig · 己亥— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Dipper · 斗— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Xiezhi creature (獬) · 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 long travel, saying possessions may be hidden or lost.巳不远行财物伏藏Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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