Chinese Almanac for 2024-01-13
2024-01-13 is Lunar month 12, day 3 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Zi day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-01-13 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 12, day 3 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Chou (Ox) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Rabbit |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Install machinery (安机械)
- Build a cart or tool (造车器)
- 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)
- Make bed curtains (合帐)
- Set up a loom (经络)
- Trade (交易)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Official's Day (官日), Six Harmony (六合), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Continuing Generations (续世), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Blood Branch (血支), Earth Talisman (土符), Return Taboo (归忌), Blood Taboo (血忌), Water Dragon Contact (触水龙), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Geng Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.
Zi (Rat) day: traditionally, diviners are not consulted, as it is said doing so brings calamity on oneself.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | South |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | West |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-01-13 corresponds to Lunar month 12, day 3 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?
2024-01-13 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