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Chinese calendar, 12 April 2021
12 April 2021 is lunar month 3, day 1, 2021, the Metal Ox year. The day pillar is Yang Metal Tiger. 18 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; new moon.
Monday
April 2021
Lunar date
3rd Month · 1st Day
二〇二一年三月初一
Year of the
Earth generates Metal in the Five Phases, so the Ox’s fixed element supports the year element.
Moon phase
10:31 · UTC+8
Daily almanac · 2021-04-12
The daily almanac & observances
庚寅 Yang Metal Tiger
The stem gives Metal; 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
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Add a member to the household进人口
- Meet relatives and friends会亲友
- Trade交易
- Sign a contract立券
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- End the mourning-clothes period除服
- Thanksgiving rite after building谢土
- Move a coffin移柩
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Reopen a grave for reburial启钻
- Take up a post赴任
- Travel出行
- Open a business or market开市
- Receive funds纳财
- Plant crops栽种
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 3 · 30 days
12 April 2021–11 May 2021. 29 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Dragon Boat Festival
14 June 2021 · In communities especially around the middle and lower Yangtze, observances may combine local memorial rites, dragon-boat sports and rice-dumpling feasts; even the honoured hero varies by region.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
April 2021 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 2/23
New moon
Lunar 3/1
First quarter
Lunar 3/9
Full moon
Lunar 3/16
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
Explore the days around 12 April 2021
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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 Metal Tiger · 庚寅— 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
- Yang Water Dragon · 壬辰— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Metal Ox · 辛丑— Earth generates Metal; 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
- Tiger · 虎— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yang Wood Monkey · 甲申— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Heart · 心— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.East palace (东) · Fox creature (狐) · 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: Northwest (西北)
- Blessing 福神: Southwest (西南)
- Wealth 财神: East (正东)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against setting warp and weft, saying the loom may stand empty.庚不经络织机虚张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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