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Chinese calendar, 4 February 1978
4 February 1978 is lunar month 12, day 27, 1977, the Fire Snake year. The day pillar is Yin Fire Rooster. 24 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Saturday
February 1978
Lunar date
12th Month · 27th Day
一九七七年腊月廿七
Year of the
Fire is both the year element and the Snake’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Fire.
Moon phase
Lunar day 27 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1978-02-04
The daily almanac & observances
丁酉 Yin Fire Rooster
The stem gives Fire; the branch gives Rooster.
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
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move into a new home入宅
- Install an incense altar安香
- Move a coffin移柩
- Burial安葬
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Travel出行
- Bathe沐浴
- Build or renovate修造
- Erect pillars竖柱
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Receive funds纳财
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Install a door安门
- Release or drain water放水
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 12 · 29 days
9 January 1978–6 February 1978. 2 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
6 February 1978 · In China, many families share a reunion dinner and stay up late to greet the new year, while the meal and surrounding rituals vary by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 1978 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/9
Full moon
Lunar 1/17
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
- Yin Fire Rooster · 丁酉— 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 Metal · Xīn 辛 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Wood Tiger · 甲寅— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Snake · 丁巳— Fire reinforces Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Mountain-foot Fire · 山下火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rooster · 鸡— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Metal Rabbit · 辛卯— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Willow · 柳— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Roe deer creature (獐) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Danger · 危— 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: Southwest (西南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against cutting hair, saying sores may appear.丁不剃头头必生疮The verse cautions against receiving guests, saying drunken disorder may follow.酉不会客醉坐颠狂Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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