Chinese Almanac for 2024-11-08
2024-11-08 is Lunar month 10, day 8 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Zi day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2024-11-08 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 10, day 8 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Hai (Pig) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Dragon |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Install an altar (安香)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Get a haircut (理发)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Renovate a grave (修坟)
- Thank the earth god (谢土)
- Take office (赴任)
- Move house (移徙)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Treat illness (治病)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Trim nails (整手足甲)
- Start school (入学)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Open for business (开市)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Official's Day (官日), Heavenly Horse (天马), Auspicious Period (吉期), Essential Peace (要安), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池), Water Dragon Contact (触水龙), White Tiger (白虎)
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?
2024-11-08 corresponds to Lunar month 10, day 8 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?
2024-11-08 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