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Chinese calendar, 23 April 1966
23 April 1966 is lunar leap month 3, day 3, 1966, the Fire Horse year. The day pillar is Yang Water Rat. 20 named Yi activities; 0 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
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April 1966
Lunar date
Leap 3rd Month · 3rd Day
一九六六年闰三月初三
Year of the
Fire is both the year element and the Horse’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Fire.
Moon phase
Lunar day 3 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1966-04-23
The daily almanac & observances
壬子 Yang Water Rat
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Rat.
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
- Pray for children求嗣
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Set up a bed安床
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Build a temple造庙
- Dig a well掘井
- Dig a pond开池
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Begin burial excavation破土
忌 Traditionally avoid
- None listed无
Leap month 3 · 29 days
21 April 1966–19 May 1966. 26 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
23 June 1966 · 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 1966 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 Water Rat · 壬子— 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 Water · Guǐ 癸 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午— Fire reinforces Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Mulberry Wood · 桑柘木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Fire Horse · 丙午— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Root · 氐— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Raccoon dog creature (貉) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Complete · 成— 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 divination, saying it may invite trouble.子不问卜自惹祸殃Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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23 April 1966 corresponds to lunar year 1966, the leap occurrence of month 3, day 3, in the 丙午 year — the Year of the Horse. You can enter another date in the date converter.
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