Chinese Almanac for 2024-02-08
2024-02-08 is Lunar month 12, day 29 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Yin day in the Gui Mao (Rabbit) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-02-08 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 12, day 29 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Yin (Tiger) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Yin (Tiger) |
| Year zodiac | Rabbit |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Travel (出行)
- Break ground (动土)
- Dig a canal (开渠)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Dig a well (掘井)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month Void (月空), King's Day (王日), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Essential Peace (要安), Five Harmony (五合), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), Departure and Loss (往亡), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Monkey (Bing Shen day); traditionally best to avoid the North 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.
Yin (Tiger) day: traditionally, sacrifices are not offered, as it is said the spirits will not partake.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | South |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | West |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | East |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-02-08 corresponds to Lunar month 12, 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?
2024-02-08 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