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Chinese calendar, 13 February 1962
13 February 1962 is lunar month 1, day 9, 1962, the Water Tiger year. The day pillar is Yang Water Horse. 20 named Yi activities; 7 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
Tuesday
February 1962
Lunar date
1st Month · 9th Day
一九六二年正月初九
Year of the
Water generates Wood in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Tiger’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 9 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1962-02-13
The daily almanac & observances
壬午 Yang Water Horse
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Horse.
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
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Fell timber伐木
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Build a temple造庙
- Install machinery安机械
- Open a business or market开市
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Acquire property置产
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Join the roof ridge合脊
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Visit the sick探病
- Install a door安门
- Build or install a stove作灶
Month 1 · 29 days
5 February 1962–5 March 1962. 20 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lantern Festival
19 February 1962 · In Shanghai and many other Chinese communities, people may view lantern displays, solve lantern riddles and eat yuanxiao or tangyuan, with recipes and events varying by place.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 1962 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/7
Full moon
Lunar 1/15
Last quarter
Lunar 1/23
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
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— 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 Fire · Dīng 丁 (primary)
- Yin Earth · Jǐ 己 (middle)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Water Tiger · 壬寅— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Water Tiger · 壬寅— Water generates Wood; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Willow Wood · 杨柳木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Horse · 马— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Rat · 丙子— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Encampment · 室— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Pig creature (猪) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Settle · 定— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: South (正南)
- Blessing 福神: Southeast (东南)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against drawing water, saying trouble may be hard to guard against.壬不泱水更难提防The verse cautions against roofing a house, saying its owner may have to make changes.午不苫盖屋主更张Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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