Chinese Almanac for 2024-01-07
2024-01-07 is Lunar month 11, day 26 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Geng Wu day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-01-07 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 26 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Chou (Ox) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Wu (Horse) |
| Year zodiac | Rabbit |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Travel (出行)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Thank the earth god (谢土)
- Take office (赴任)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Hunt or trap (捕捉)
- Plant (栽种)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Install a door (安门)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Build a roof (盖屋)
- Open for business (开市)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue (天德), Month's Virtue (月德), Reverent Peace (敬安), Untying Spirit (解神), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Harm (月害), Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池), Minor Depletion (小耗), Five Voids (五虚), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rat (Jia Zi day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Geng (Yang Metal) day: traditionally, looms are not set up, as it is said the work will come to nothing.
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) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | South |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-01-07 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 26 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?
2024-01-07 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