Chinese Almanac for 2026-12-23
2026-12-23 is Lunar month 11, day 15 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Xin Wei day in the Bing Wu (Horse) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2026-12-23 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 15 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Wu (Horse) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Zi (Rat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Wei (Goat) |
| Year zodiac | Horse |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Set up a frame (架马)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Get a haircut (理发)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
- Drill pillar mortises (开柱眼)
- Build a latrine (开厕)
- Hunt (畋猎)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Renovate a grave (修坟)
- Erect a tombstone (立碑)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Install a door (安门)
- Build a bridge (造桥)
- Open for business (开市)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Essential Peace (要安)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Month Harm (月害), Four Strikes (四击), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Ox (Yi Chou day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Xin (Yin Metal) day: traditionally, sauce is not made, as it is said the owner will never taste it.
Wei (Goat) day: traditionally, medicine is not taken, as it is said poison will enter the intestines.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | South |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northeast |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | South |
What is today's lunar date?
2026-12-23 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 15 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?
2026-12-23 falls in the Bing Wu year, the year of the Horse.
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