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Chinese calendar, 12 March 2020
12 March 2020 is lunar month 2, day 19, 2020, the Metal Rat year. The day pillar is Yang Wood Tiger. 19 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Thursday
March 2020
Lunar date
2nd Month · 19th Day
二〇二〇年二月十九
Year of the
Metal generates Water in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Rat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 19 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2020-03-12
The daily almanac & observances
甲寅 Yang Wood Tiger
The stem gives Wood; the branch gives Tiger.
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
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Set up a loom's warp经络
- Fell timber伐木
- Cut joints in columns or beams开柱眼
- Dismantle a structure拆卸
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Join the roof ridge合脊
- Make a coffin合寿木
- Place the deceased in a coffin入殓
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Repair a grave修坟
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 2 · 30 days
23 February 2020–23 March 2020. 11 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
March 2020 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 2/10
Full moon
Lunar 2/17
Last quarter
Lunar 2/23
New moon
Lunar 3/1
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
- Yang Wood Tiger · 甲寅— 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 Wood · Jiǎ 甲 (primary)
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Earth Rabbit · 己卯— 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
- Great Stream Water · 大溪水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Tiger · 虎— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Earth Monkey · 戊申— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Horn · 角— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Flood dragon creature (蛟) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Close · 闭— 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 ritual offerings, saying spirits may not receive them.寅不祭祀神鬼不尝Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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