Chinese Almanac for 2047-09-09

2047-09-09 is Lunar month 7, day 20 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Zi day in the Ding Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2047-09-09
Lunar date Lunar month 7, day 20
Year (Ganzhi) Ding (Yin Fire) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Ji (Yin Earth) You (Rooster)
Day (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Zi (Rat)
Year zodiac Rabbit

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Move the coffin (移柩)
  • End mourning (除服)
  • Put on mourning clothes (成服)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Level roads (平治道涂)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Move house (移徙)
  • Move into a new home (入宅)
  • Open for business (开市)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Hour's Virtue (时德), Yang Virtue (阳德), People's Day (民日), Jade Palace (玉宇), Kitchen God (司命), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

River Chief (河魁), Death God (死神), Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Departure and Loss (往亡), Water Dragon Contact (触水龙)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Horse (Geng Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.

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

What is today's lunar date?

2047-09-09 corresponds to Lunar month 7, 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?

2047-09-09 falls in the Ding Mao year, the year of the Rabbit.

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