Chinese Almanac for 2021-12-13
2021-12-13 is Lunar month 11, day 10 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Wei day in the Xin Chou (Ox) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2021-12-13 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 10 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Chou (Ox) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Zi (Rat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Wei (Goat) |
| Year zodiac | Ox |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Travel (出行)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Install machinery (安机械)
- Move house (移徙)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Install an altar (安香)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Plant (栽种)
- Treat illness (治病)
- Install a door (安门)
- Build the stove (作灶)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Four Images (四相), Essential Peace (要安)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Month Harm (月害), Four Strikes (四击), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)
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) | Northeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2021-12-13 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 10 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?
2021-12-13 falls in the Xin Chou year, the year of the Ox.
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