Chinese Almanac for 2029-01-31

2029-01-31 is Lunar month 12, day 17 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Xin You day in the Wu Shen (Monkey) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2029-01-31
Lunar date Lunar month 12, day 17
Year (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey)
Month (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Chou (Ox)
Day (Ganzhi) Xin (Yin Metal) You (Rooster)
Year zodiac Monkey

Auspicious for (宜)

  • 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)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Renovate a grave (修坟)
  • Erect a tombstone (立碑)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Open for business (开市)
  • Fell trees (伐木)
  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Make roof beams (作梁)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Mother's Granary (母仓), Month's Grace (月恩), Triple Harmony (三合), Day of Attendance (临日), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Removing Spirit (除神), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Four Depletions (四耗), Great Havoc (大煞), Five Separations (五离), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)

Clash & direction to avoid

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

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

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2029-01-31 corresponds to Lunar month 12, day 17 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?

2029-01-31 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