Chinese Almanac for 2023-11-22

2023-11-22 is Lunar month 10, day 10 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Shen day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2023-11-22
Lunar date Lunar month 10, day 10
Year (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Hai (Pig)
Day (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Shen (Monkey)
Year zodiac Rabbit
Solar term today Minor Snow

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
  • Make fishing nets (结网)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Trade (交易)
  • Sell goods (出货财)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Renovate a grave (修坟)
  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Build the stove (作灶)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Month's Virtue (月德), Mother's Granary (母仓), Four Images (四相), Removing Spirit (除神), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Heaven's Net (天罡), Robbery Star (劫煞), Month Harm (月害), Five Separations (五离), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Tiger (Wu Yin 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.

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) 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?

2023-11-22 corresponds to Lunar month 10, 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?

2023-11-22 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