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Chinese calendar, 1 April 2048
1 April 2048 is lunar month 2, day 19, 2048, the Earth Dragon year. The day pillar is Yin Metal Ox. 17 named Yi activities; 4 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning gibbous.
Wednesday
April 2048
Lunar date
2nd Month · 19th Day
二〇四八年二月十九
Year of the
Earth is both the year element and the Dragon’s fixed element, so this pairing reinforces Earth.
Moon phase
Lunar day 19 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2048-04-01
The daily almanac & observances
辛丑 Yin Metal Ox
The stem gives Metal; the branch gives Ox.
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
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Travel出行
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Move residence移徙
- Move into a new home入宅
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Move a sacred altar or flame出火
- Install a door安门
- Set up a bed安床
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Erect a memorial stone立碑
- Move a coffin移柩
忌 Traditionally avoid
Month 2 · 30 days
14 March 2048–12 April 2048. 11 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qingming Festival
4 April 2048 · 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 2048 moon phases
Last quarter
Lunar 2/24
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 →
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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 Ox · 辛丑— 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 Earth · Jǐ 己 (primary)
- Yin Water · Guǐ 癸 (middle)
- Yin Metal · Xīn 辛 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Wood Rabbit · 乙卯— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yang Earth Dragon · 戊辰— Earth reinforces Earth; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Wall Earth · 壁上土— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Earth.
- Day animal 生肖
- Ox · 牛— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Wood Goat · 乙未— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Chariot · 轸— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Earthworm creature (蚓) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- 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: 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 ceremonial dress, saying the wearer may not return home.丑不冠带主不还乡Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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