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April 1956 has 30 days, spanning lunar months 2 / 3. Qingming Festival: 5 Apr. New moon: 11 Apr. Full moon: 25 Apr. Pure Brightness: 5 Apr. Grain Rain: 20 Apr.
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Lunar 1956 month 2 into 1956 month 3 · Yang Fire Monkey 丙申 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰
- Solar terms
- Pure Brightness · 5 at 03:31:09 UTC+8; Grain Rain · 20 at 10:43:25 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 10 April 1956 closes lunar 1956 month 2; lunar 1956 month 3 begins 11 April 1956.
Lunar-year structure
The lunar year around this month
Lunar 1956
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
April 1956 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
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2/21戊戌Earth Dog22/22己亥Earth Pig32/23庚子Metal Rat42/24辛丑Metal Ox2/25壬寅Water TigerPure Brightness62/26癸卯Water Rabbit72/27甲辰Wood Dragon2/28乙巳Wood Snake92/29丙午Fire Horse102/30丁未Fire Goat113/1戊申Earth MonkeyLunar month opens123/2己酉Earth Rooster133/3庚戌Metal Dog143/4辛亥Metal Pig3/5壬子Water Rat163/6癸丑Water Ox173/7甲寅Wood Tiger183/8乙卯Wood Rabbit193/9丙辰Fire Dragon203/10丁巳Fire SnakeGrain Rain213/11戊午Earth Horse3/12己未Earth Goat233/13庚申Metal Monkey243/14辛酉Metal Rooster253/15壬戌Water DogLunar mid-month263/16癸亥Water Pig273/17甲子Wood Rat283/18乙丑Wood Ox3/19丙寅Fire Tiger303/20丁卯Fire RabbitThe Moon this month · UTC+8
April 1956 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 2/23
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
Boundaries & marked days
What happens in April 1956
- 11 April 1956 — lunar 1956 month 2 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1956 month 3 opens.
- 5 April 1956 at 03:31:09 UTC+8 — Pure Brightness, 清明 Qīngmíng, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 April 1956 at 10:43:25 UTC+8 — Grain Rain, 谷雨 Gǔyǔ, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 11 April 1956 — the first day of lunar month 3.
- 25 April 1956 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 3, which falls near the full moon.
- 5 April 1956 — Qingming Festival. An observance fixed by the Qingming solar-term instant rather than by a numbered lunar day.