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Chinese calendar, 18 February 2020
18 February 2020 is lunar month 1, day 25, 2020, the Metal Rat year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Rabbit. 21 named Yi activities; 1 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Tuesday
February 2020
Lunar date
1st Month · 25th Day
二〇二〇年正月廿五
Year of the
Metal generates Water in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Rat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 25 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2020-02-18
The daily almanac & observances
辛卯 Yin Metal Rabbit
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Rabbit.
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
- Daoist fasting and offering rites斋醮
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Prepare wedding bed curtains合帐
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Move into a new home入宅
- Install an incense altar安香
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Travel出行
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Release or drain water放水
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 1 · 29 days
25 January 2020–22 February 2020. 4 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
4 April 2020 · 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
February 2020 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 1/9
Full moon
Lunar 1/16
Last quarter
Lunar 1/23
New moon
Lunar 2/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
Explore the days around 18 February 2020
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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 Rabbit · 辛卯— 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 Wood · Yǐ 乙 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Earth Tiger · 戊寅— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Metal Rat · 庚子— Metal generates Water; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Pine and Cypress Wood · 松柏木— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Wood.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rabbit · 兔— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Rooster · 乙酉— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Tail · 尾— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Tiger creature (虎) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Remove · 除— 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 digging a well, saying the water may not be sweet.卯不穿井水泉不香Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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