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Chinese calendar, 9 February 2021
9 February 2021 is lunar month 12, day 28, 2020, the Metal Rat year. The day pillar is Yang Earth Rat. 23 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 6 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Tuesday
February 2021
Lunar date
12th Month · 28th Day
二〇二〇年腊月廿八
Year of the
Metal generates Water in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Rat’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 28 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2021-02-09
The daily almanac & observances
戊子 Yang Earth Rat
The stem gives Earth; the branch gives Rat.
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
- Bathe沐浴
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Sculpt or paint sacred images塑绘
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Begin wearing mourning clothes成服
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Travel出行
- Install a mortar or mill安碓磑
- Release or drain water放水
- Open a business or market开市
- Sign a contract立券
- Trade交易
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 12 · 30 days
13 January 2021–11 February 2021. 2 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Lunar New Year's Eve
11 February 2021 · In China, many families share a reunion dinner and stay up late to greet the new year, while the meal and surrounding rituals vary by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
February 2021 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 12/24
New moon
Lunar 1/1
First quarter
Lunar 1/9
Full moon
Lunar 1/16
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
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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 Earth Rat · 戊子— 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 Water · Guǐ 癸 (primary)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yang Metal Tiger · 庚寅— 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
- Thunderbolt Fire · 霹雳火— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Fire.
- Day animal 生肖
- Rat · 鼠— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Water Horse · 壬午— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Wings · 翼— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Snake creature (蛇) · traditionally unfavourable (凶)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: North (正北)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against accepting land, saying it may be inauspicious for the owner.戊不受田田主不祥The verse cautions against divination, saying it may invite trouble.子不问卜自惹祸殃Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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