Chinese Almanac for 2024-07-19
2024-07-19 is Lunar month 6, day 14 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Shen day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-07-19 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 14 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Wei (Goat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Shen (Monkey) |
| Year zodiac | Dragon |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Plant (栽种)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- None (无)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue (天德), Month's Virtue (月德), Yang Virtue (阳德), Minister's Day (相日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Benefiting Descendants (益后), Removing Spirit (除神), Kitchen God (司命), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Robbery Star (劫煞), Heaven's Thief (天贼), Five Voids (五虚), Eight Winds (八风), Five Separations (五离)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Tiger (Wu Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Shen (Monkey) day: traditionally, beds are not set up, as it is said spirits will enter the room.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-07-19 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 14 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?
2024-07-19 falls in the Jia Chen year, the year of the Dragon.
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