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Chinese calendar, 12 May 1978
12 May 1978 is lunar month 4, day 6, 1978, the Earth Horse year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Dog. 13 named Yi activities; 10 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waxing crescent.
Friday
May 1978
Lunar date
4th Month · 6th Day
一九七八年四月初六
Year of the
Fire generates Earth in the Five Phases, so the Horse’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 6 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 1978-05-12
The daily almanac & observances
甲戌 Yang Wood Dog
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Dog.
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
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Travel出行
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Build or renovate修造
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Erect construction scaffolding架马
- Move into a new home入宅
- Fell timber伐木
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
Month 4 · 30 days
7 May 1978–5 June 1978. 24 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
10 June 1978 · 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
May 1978 moon phases
New moon
Lunar 4/1
First quarter
Lunar 4/9
Full moon
Lunar 4/16
Last quarter
Lunar 4/23
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 Wood Dog · 甲戌— 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.
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (primary)
- Yin Metal · Xīn 辛 (middle)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Fire Snake · 丁巳— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Horse · 戊午— Fire generates Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Mountain-top Fire · 山头火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Dog · 狗— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Dragon · 戊辰— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Ox · 牛— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.North palace (北) · Ox creature (牛) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Hold · 执— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Northeast (东北)
- Blessing 福神: North (正北)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against opening a storehouse, saying possessions may be lost.甲不开仓财物耗散The verse cautions against eating dog meat, saying strange disturbances may reach the bed.戌不吃犬作怪上床Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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