擇日 · Date selection

Auspicious Dates Calendar

Pick a life event to see every day of the month rated Good, Fair or Avoid, using the same Chinese almanac as today's page. Then check the dates against your family's birth years.

Choose your event

How dates are chosen

Each day in the Chinese almanac (Tong Shu) has a Day Officer, one of twelve that cycle through the solar month. Each event has its own favoured officers. 成 Success and 開 Open suit almost everything. A day is Good when it falls on a favoured officer and has no exclusions, Fair when its officer is neutral, and Avoid when any traditional exclusion applies:

• 破 Destruction and 閉 Close days
• Year-breaker days (歲破), which clash with the year’s animal
• 四離 and 四絕: the day before each equinox, solstice and start of a season
• Yang Gong taboo days (楊公忌日), thirteen fixed lunar dates a year
• For moving, BTO keys and weddings, the 7th lunar month (Hungry Ghost month)

After that, the calendar can hide days that clash with your household’s zodiac animals. For renovation, it can also avoid the day’s Sha direction on the side of the flat being worked on. All of this happens in your browser. Read How to read a Tong Shu for the background.

A simplified traditional method for reflection and cultural interest. For a wedding, a business launch or a major purchase, many families also consult a feng shui master.