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Chinese calendar, 4 April 2017
4 April 2017 is lunar month 3, day 8, 2017, the Fire Rooster year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Rooster. 15 named Yi activities; 2 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; first quarter.
Tuesday
April 2017
Lunar date
3rd Month · 8th Day
二〇一七年三月初八
Year of the
Fire restrains Metal in the Five Phases, so the year element is understood as moderating the Rooster’s fixed element.
Moon phase
02:40 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 2017-04-04
The daily almanac & observances
辛酉 Yin Metal Rooster
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Ritual cleansing or removal解除
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Burial安葬
- Trim fingernails and toenails整手足甲
- Trap or capture捕捉
- Hunt畋猎
- Fish取渔
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Clean the house扫舍
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 3 · 29 days
28 March 2017–25 April 2017. 21 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival · 清明节
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 2017 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 3/8
Full moon
Lunar 3/15
Last quarter
Lunar 3/23
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 Metal Rooster · 辛酉— 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 Dragon · 甲辰— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Fire Rooster · 丁酉— Fire controls Metal; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Pomegranate Wood · 石榴木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rooster · 鸡— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Rabbit · 乙卯— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Turtle Beak · 觜— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.West palace (西) · Monkey creature (猴) · 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: Southwest (西南)
- Blessing 福神: Northwest (西北)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against making sauce, saying the household may not taste it.辛不合酱主人不尝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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