Chinese Almanac for 2028-03-01

2028-03-01 is Lunar month 2, day 6 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi You day in the Wu Shen (Monkey) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2028-03-01
Lunar date Lunar month 2, day 6
Year (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey)
Month (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Yin (Tiger)
Day (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) You (Rooster)
Year zodiac Monkey

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Dismantle (拆卸)
  • Renovate and build (修造)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Lay the foundation (起基)
  • Raise the roof beam (上梁)
  • Build a roof (盖屋)
  • Move into a new home (入宅)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Dig a pond (开池)
  • Seal up holes and burrows (塞穴)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Plant (栽种)
  • Treat illness (治病)
  • Build the stove (作灶)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Heaven's Grace (天恩), Yin Virtue (阴德), Blessing Birth (福生), Removing Spirit (除神), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Five Voids (五虚), Five Separations (五离), Black Tortoise (元武)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Rabbit (Ji Mao day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.

You (Rooster) day: traditionally, guests are not entertained, as it is said drunkenness will lead to madness.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2028-03-01 corresponds to Lunar month 2, 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?

2028-03-01 falls in the Wu Shen year, the year of the Monkey.

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