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Chinese calendar, 23 April 1955
23 April 1955 is lunar leap month 3, day 2, 1955, the Wood Goat year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Tiger. 17 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
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April 1955
Lunar date
Leap 3rd Month · 2nd Day
一九五五年闰三月初二
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 2 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1955-04-23
The daily almanac & observances
甲寅 Yang Wood Tiger
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Tiger.
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
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Open a business or market开市
- Sign a contract立券
- Trade交易
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Burial安葬
- Visit the sick探病
Leap month 3 · 30 days
22 April 1955–21 May 1955. 28 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
- Yang Wood Tiger · 甲寅— 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 Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (primary)
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (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
- Great Stream Water · 大溪水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Tiger · 虎— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Stomach · 胃— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Boar creature (彘) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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: Northeast (东北)
- Blessing 福神: North (正北)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against opening a storehouse, saying possessions may be lost.甲不开仓财物耗散The verse cautions against ritual offerings, saying spirits may not receive them.寅不祭祀神鬼不尝Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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23 April 1955 corresponds to lunar year 1955, the leap occurrence of month 3, day 2, in the 乙未 year — the Year of the Goat. You can enter another date in the date converter.
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