Chinese Almanac for 2024-01-12
2024-01-12 is Lunar month 12, day 2 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Hai day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-01-12 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 12, day 2 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Chou (Ox) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Hai (Pig) |
| Year zodiac | Rabbit |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Travel (出行)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Install machinery (安机械)
- Open for business (开市)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Install a millstone (安碓磑)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Plant (栽种)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Four Images (四相), Yin Virtue (阴德), King's Day (王日), Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Benefiting Descendants (益后), Bright Hall (明堂)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Aversion (月厌), Earth Fire (地火), Double Day (重日)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Snake (Ji Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.
Hai (Pig) day: traditionally, marriages are not held, as it is said it will be unlucky for the groom.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-01-12 corresponds to Lunar month 12, day 2 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?
2024-01-12 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