Chinese Almanac for 2007-10-28

2007-10-28 is Lunar month 9, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Wei day in the Ding Hai (Pig) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2007-10-28
Lunar date Lunar month 9, day 18
Year (Ganzhi) Ding (Yin Fire) Hai (Pig)
Month (Ganzhi) Geng (Yang Metal) Xu (Dog)
Day (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Wei (Goat)
Year zodiac Pig

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Hunt (畋猎)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Plant (栽种)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Open for business (开市)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Mother's Granary (母仓), Jade Palace (玉宇)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

River Chief (河魁), Month Punishment (月刑), Five Voids (五虚), Vermilion Bird (朱雀)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Ox (Ji Chou day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.

Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.

Auspicious directions

God of Joy (喜神) Northwest
God of Fortune (福神) Southwest
God of Wealth (财神) Northeast
Tai Sui (太岁) North
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) Southwest
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) North

What is today's lunar date?

2007-10-28 corresponds to Lunar month 9, day 18 on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar.

What should be avoided on this day?

Traditional almanac sources list the items under Inauspicious for (忌) above as activities best avoided on this day.

Which zodiac year is this day in?

2007-10-28 falls in the Ding Hai year, the year of the Pig.

Solar terms: astronomical calculation. Daily do's and don'ts, auspicious/inauspicious spirits, clashes, and Peng Zu's taboos: Xieji Bianfangshu (协纪辨方书) tradition, as encoded in lunar-typescript · Last updated 2026-09-11