Chinese Almanac for 2024-01-10

2024-01-10 is Lunar month 11, day 29 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Gui You day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2024-01-10
Lunar date Lunar month 11, day 29
Year (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Chou (Ox)
Day (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) You (Rooster)
Year zodiac Rabbit

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Exhume for reburial (启钻)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Erect a tombstone (立碑)
  • Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Fell trees (伐木)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Mother's Granary (母仓), Triple Harmony (三合), Day of Attendance (临日), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Removing Spirit (除神), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Earth Pouch (地囊), Great Havoc (大煞), Five Separations (五离), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Rabbit (Ding Mao day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Gui (Yin Water) day: traditionally, lawsuits are not filed, as it is said one's case will be weak and the opponent strong.

You (Rooster) day: traditionally, guests are not entertained, as it is said drunkenness will lead to madness.

Auspicious directions

God of Joy (喜神) Southeast
God of Fortune (福神) Northeast
God of Wealth (财神) South
Tai Sui (太岁) East
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) Southeast
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) East

What is today's lunar date?

2024-01-10 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 29 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?

2024-01-10 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