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January 1957 has 31 days, spanning lunar months 12 / 1. Laba Festival: 8 Jan. Lunar New Year's Eve: 30 Jan. Chinese New Year: 31 Jan. New moon: 1 Jan. Full moon: 16 Jan. New moon: 31 Jan. Minor Cold: 5 Jan. Major Cold: 20 Jan.
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Lunar 1956 month 12 into 1957 month 1 · Yang Fire Monkey 丙申 year pillar at mid-month
- Month pillar at mid-month
- Yin Metal Ox · 辛丑
- Solar terms
- Minor Cold · 5 at 22:10:25 UTC+8; Major Cold · 20 at 15:38:35 UTC+8
- Lunar boundary
- 30 January 1957 closes lunar 1956 month 12; lunar 1957 month 1 begins 31 January 1957.
Lunar-year structure
Two lunar years meet here
Lunar 1956
12 lunar months · 354 days · no leap month.
Lunar 1957
13 lunar months · 383 days · leap month 8 (29 days).
January 1957 day by day
Gregorian dates, Chinese lunar dates, moon boundaries, festivals, and solar terms.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
January 1957 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 12/1
First quarter
Lunar 12/9
Full moon
Lunar 12/16
Last quarter
Lunar 12/23
New moon
Lunar 1/1
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 January 1957
- 31 January 1957 — lunar 1956 month 12 ends the day before, on day 30, and lunar 1957 month 1 opens.
- 5 January 1957 at 22:10:25 UTC+8 — Minor Cold, 小寒 Xiǎohán, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 20 January 1957 at 15:38:35 UTC+8 — Major Cold, 大寒 Dàhán, one of the twenty-four solar terms.
- 1 January 1957 — the first day of lunar month 12.
- 15 January 1957 — lunar mid-month, the fifteenth day of lunar month 12, which falls near the full moon.
- 31 January 1957 — the first day of lunar month 1.
- 8 January 1957 — Laba Festival, lunar 12/8. The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, in the run-up to the new year.
- 30 January 1957 — Lunar New Year's Eve, lunar 12/30. The last day of the twelfth lunar month, which can be day 29 or day 30.
- 31 January 1957 — Chinese New Year, lunar 1/1. The first day of the first lunar month and the opening of a new lunar year.