Chinese Almanac for 2023-08-04
2023-08-04 is Lunar month 6, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Wu day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2023-08-04 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 18 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Wei (Goat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Wu (Horse) |
| Year zodiac | Rabbit |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Set up a loom (经络)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Repair a wall (补垣)
- Seal up holes and burrows (塞穴)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Erect a tombstone (立碑)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Treat illness (治病)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue (天德), Month's Virtue (月德), Heaven's Pardon (天赦), Official's Day (官日), Six Harmony (六合), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Blood Branch (血支), Departure and Loss (往亡), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rat (Wu Zi day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Wu (Horse) day: traditionally, roofs are not thatched, as it is said the owner's fortune will change.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2023-08-04 corresponds to Lunar month 6, 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?
2023-08-04 falls in the Gui Mao year, the year of the Rabbit.
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