Chinese Almanac for 2048-01-06

2048-01-06 is Lunar month 11, day 21 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Hai day in the Ding Mao (Rabbit) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2048-01-06
Lunar date Lunar month 11, day 21
Year (Ganzhi) Ding (Yin Fire) Mao (Rabbit)
Month (Ganzhi) Gui (Yin Water) Chou (Ox)
Day (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Hai (Pig)
Year zodiac Rabbit
Solar term today Minor Cold

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
  • Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
  • Pray for blessings (祈福)
  • Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
  • Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
  • Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Install machinery (安机械)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Sign a contract (立券)
  • Install a millstone (安碓磑)
  • Bring in livestock (纳畜)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Plant (栽种)
  • Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Four Images (四相), Yin Virtue (阴德), King's Day (王日), Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Benefiting Descendants (益后), Bright Hall (明堂)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Aversion (月厌), Earth Fire (地火), Double Day (重日)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Snake (Ji Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.

Hai (Pig) day: traditionally, marriages are not held, as it is said it will be unlucky for the groom.

Auspicious directions

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

What is today's lunar date?

2048-01-06 corresponds to Lunar month 11, 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?

2048-01-06 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