Chinese Almanac for 2024-08-28
2024-08-28 is Lunar month 7, day 25 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Zi day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-08-28 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 7, day 25 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Shen (Monkey) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Dragon |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Travel (出行)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Install an altar (安香)
- Trade (交易)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Break ground (动土)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Thank the earth god (谢土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Open for business (开市)
- Open a warehouse (开仓)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Build a boat (造船)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Grace (天恩), Hour's Yang (时阳), People's Day (民日), Triple Harmony (三合), Day of Attendance (临日), Hour's Yin (时阴), Blessing Birth (福生), Azure Dragon (青龙)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Dead Energy (死气)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Wu Wu 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.
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) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2024-08-28 corresponds to Lunar month 7, day 25 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?
2024-08-28 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