Chinese Almanac for 2028-12-05
2028-12-05 is Lunar month 10, day 20 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Zi day in the Wu Shen (Monkey) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2028-12-05 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 10, day 20 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Hai (Pig) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Monkey |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Travel (出行)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- 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)
- Take office (赴任)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Sweep the house (扫舍)
- Plant (栽种)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Fell trees (伐木)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Open a warehouse (开仓)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Virtue (月德), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Heaven's Pardon (天赦), Four Images (四相), Official's Day (官日), Heavenly Horse (天马), Auspicious Period (吉期), Essential Peace (要安)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池), White Tiger (白虎)
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?
2028-12-05 corresponds to Lunar month 10, day 20 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?
2028-12-05 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