Chinese Almanac for 2022-12-17
2022-12-17 is Lunar month 11, day 24 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Chen day in the Ren Yin (Tiger) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2022-12-17 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 24 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Yin (Tiger) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Zi (Rat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Year zodiac | Tiger |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Build a bridge (造桥)
- Install machinery (安机械)
- Plant (栽种)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Open for business (开市)
- Marry (嫁娶)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), Triple Harmony (三合), Day of Attendance (临日), Hour's Yin (时阴), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Sacred Heart (圣心)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Dead Energy (死气), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dog (Wu Xu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Chen (Dragon) day: traditionally, weeping is avoided, as it is said to foretell a second death in the family.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | West |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2022-12-17 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 24 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?
2022-12-17 falls in the Ren Yin year, the year of the Tiger.
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