Chinese Almanac for 2024-12-06

2024-12-06 is Lunar month 11, day 6 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Chen day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2024-12-06
Lunar date Lunar month 11, day 6
Year (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon)
Month (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Zi (Rat)
Day (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon)
Year zodiac Dragon
Solar term today Major Snow

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Pray for offspring (求嗣)
  • Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
  • Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
  • Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
  • Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
  • Relocate the household fire (出火)
  • Dismantle (拆卸)
  • Renovate and build (修造)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Build a bridge (造桥)
  • Install machinery (安机械)
  • Plant (栽种)
  • Bring in livestock (纳畜)
  • Raise livestock (牧养)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Open for business (开市)
  • Marry (嫁娶)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), Triple Harmony (三合), Day of Attendance (临日), Hour's Yin (时阴), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Sacred Heart (圣心)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Dead Energy (死气), Heaven's Prison (天牢)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dog (Wu Xu 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.

Chen (Dragon) day: traditionally, weeping is avoided, as it is said to foretell a second death in the family.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2024-12-06 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 6 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?

2024-12-06 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