Chinese Almanac for 2021-02-07

2021-02-07 is Lunar month 12, day 26 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Xu day in the Geng Zi (Rat) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2021-02-07
Lunar date Lunar month 12, day 26
Year (Ganzhi) Geng (Yang Metal) Zi (Rat)
Month (Ganzhi) Geng (Yang Metal) Yin (Tiger)
Day (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog)
Year zodiac Rat

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Make fishing nets (结网)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Month's Virtue (月德), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Four Images (四相), Yang Virtue (阳德), Triple Harmony (三合), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Kitchen God (司命)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Aversion (月厌), Earth Fire (地火), Four Strikes (四击), Great Havoc (大煞)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dragon (Geng Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.

Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2021-02-07 corresponds to Lunar month 12, day 26 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?

2021-02-07 falls in the Geng Zi year, the year of the Rat.

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