Chinese Almanac for 2029-05-04

2029-05-04 is Lunar month 3, day 21 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Wu day in the Ji You (Rooster) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2029-05-04
Lunar date Lunar month 3, day 21
Year (Ganzhi) Ji (Yin Earth) You (Rooster)
Month (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Chen (Dragon)
Day (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Wu (Horse)
Year zodiac Rooster

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Visit friends and family (会亲友)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Set up a bed (安床)
  • Exhume for reburial (启钻)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Hour's Virtue (时德), People's Day (民日), Heaven's Shaman (天巫), Blessing Virtue (福德), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Disaster Star (灾煞), Heaven's Fire (天火), Great Havoc (大煞), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Rat (Wu Zi day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.

Wu (Horse) day: traditionally, roofs are not thatched, as it is said the owner's fortune will change.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2029-05-04 corresponds to Lunar month 3, day 21 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?

2029-05-04 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