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Chinese calendar, 2 April 2001
2 April 2001 is lunar month 3, day 9, 2001, the Metal Snake year. The day pillar is Yin Wood Goat. 17 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waxing gibbous.
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April 2001
Lunar date
3rd Month · 9th Day
二〇〇一年三月初九
Year of the
Fire restrains Metal in the Five Phases, so the Snake’s fixed element is understood as moderating the year element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 9 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2001-04-02
The daily almanac & observances
乙未 Yin Wood Goat
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Goat.
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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Travel出行
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Move into a new home入宅
- Move residence移徙
- Set up a bed安床
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Install a door安门
- Hang a signboard or plaque挂匾
- Receive funds纳财
- Clean the house扫舍
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Fell timber伐木
- Burial安葬
- Hold funeral rites行丧
Month 3 · 29 days
25 March 2001–22 April 2001. 20 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
5 April 2001 · In China, Qingming is commonly marked by tending graves and honouring ancestors, while spring outings form another long-standing strand of the day.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2001 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
Last quarter
Lunar 3/22
New moon
Lunar 4/1
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 Wood Goat · 乙未— 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 Earth · Jǐ 己 (primary)
- Yin Fire · Dīng 丁 (middle)
- Yin Wood · Yǐ 乙 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Metal Rabbit · 辛卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Snake · 辛巳— Fire controls Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Sand Metal · 沙中金— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Metal.
- Day animal 生肖
- Goat · 羊— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Earth Ox · 己丑— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Extended Net · 张— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Deer creature (鹿) · 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: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: Northeast (东北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against planting, saying even many plants may not grow.乙不栽植千株不长The verse cautions against taking medicine, saying harm may enter the body.未不服药毒气入肠Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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