Chinese Almanac for 2024-01-09
2024-01-09 is Lunar month 11, day 28 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Shen day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-01-09 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 28 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Chou (Ox) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Shen (Monkey) |
| Year zodiac | Rabbit |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Take in a son-in-law (纳婿)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Erect a tombstone (立碑)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Set up a bed (安床)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Mother's Granary (母仓), Yang Virtue (阳德), Five Riches (五富), Blessing Birth (福生), Removing Spirit (除神), Kitchen God (司命), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Wandering Calamity (游祸), Five Separations (五离)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Tiger (Bing Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ren (Yang Water) day: traditionally, water is not released, as it is said it will be hard to contain.
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) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | South |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | East |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-01-09 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 28 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?
2024-01-09 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