Chinese Almanac for 2029-04-02

2029-04-02 is Lunar month 2, day 19 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Xu day in the Ji You (Rooster) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2029-04-02
Lunar date Lunar month 2, day 19
Year (Ganzhi) Ji (Yin Earth) You (Rooster)
Month (Ganzhi) Ding (Yin Fire) Mao (Rabbit)
Day (Ganzhi) Ren (Yang Water) Xu (Dog)
Year zodiac Rooster

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
  • Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
  • Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
  • Make bed curtains (合帐)
  • Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
  • Welcome new household members (进人口)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Build the stove (作灶)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Make fishing nets (结网)
  • Go fishing (取渔)
  • Hunt (畋猎)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Make roof beams (作梁)
  • Build a temple (造庙)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Six Harmony (六合), Golden Hall (金堂)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Four Strikes (四击), Heaven's Prison (天牢)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dragon (Bing Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Ren (Yang Water) day: traditionally, water is not released, as it is said it will be hard to contain.

Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2029-04-02 corresponds to Lunar month 2, day 19 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?

2029-04-02 falls in the Ji You year, the year of the Rooster.

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