Chinese Almanac for 2024-01-23

2024-01-23 is Lunar month 12, day 13 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Xu day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2024-01-23
Lunar date Lunar month 12, day 13
Year (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Chou (Ox)
Day (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog)
Year zodiac Rabbit

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Avoid all other matters (馀事勿取)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Nothing advised today (诸事不宜)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Sacred Heart (圣心), Azure Dragon (青龙)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Heaven's Net (天罡), Month Punishment (月刑), Five Voids (五虚)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dragon (Geng Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.

Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.

Auspicious directions

God of Joy (喜神) Southwest
God of Fortune (福神) Northwest
God of Wealth (财神) Southwest
Tai Sui (太岁) East
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) West
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) Northwest

What is today's lunar date?

2024-01-23 corresponds to Lunar month 12, day 13 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?

2024-01-23 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