Chinese Almanac for 2021-12-14

2021-12-14 is Lunar month 11, day 11 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Shen day in the Xin Chou (Ox) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2021-12-14
Lunar date Lunar month 11, day 11
Year (Ganzhi) Xin (Yin Metal) Chou (Ox)
Month (Ganzhi) Geng (Yang Metal) Zi (Rat)
Day (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Shen (Monkey)
Year zodiac Ox

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
  • Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Dismantle (拆卸)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Renovate and build (修造)
  • Move house (移徙)
  • Build a boat (造船)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Exhume for reburial (启钻)
  • Renovate a grave (修坟)
  • Erect a tombstone (立碑)
  • Thank the earth god (谢土)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • None (无)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Month Void (月空), Mother's Granary (母仓), Triple Harmony (三合), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Jade Palace (玉宇), Removing Spirit (除神), Azure Dragon (青龙), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Nine Pits (九坎), Nine Scorches (九焦), Earth Talisman (土符), Great Havoc (大煞), Five Separations (五离)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Tiger (Geng Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

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

Shen (Monkey) day: traditionally, beds are not set up, as it is said spirits will enter the room.

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?

2021-12-14 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 11 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?

2021-12-14 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