Sunday, January 26, 2014

2014 Auspicious/Good Days to Start work in the Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is this Friday, January 31, just days away.  If you are still wondering as to a good day to start work or open shop for business in the new year of the Horse, here are the options as suggested from two sources.

Geomancy.net provides four options as follows:


OPTION 1:
5 Feb 2014 (Wed) - except for those born in the Ox year
Lunar: 2014, 1st month, 6th day of Chinese New Year

or

OPTION 2:
7 Feb 2014 (Fri) - except for those born in the Rabbit year
Lunar: 2014, 1st month, 8th day of Chinese New Year

or

OPTION 3:
If cannot close for too long; and need to open as early as possible:-
1 Feb 2014 (Sat) - except for those born in the Rooster year
Lunar: 2014, 1st month, 2nd day of Chinese New Year

or

OPTION 4:
Cantonese don't like opening on the 4th. But no issue with Hokkiens & Teochews
03 Feb 2014 (Mon)
Lunar: 2014, 1st month, 4th day of Chinese New Year


More dates from Goodfengshui.com.  This one has more details with auspicious timing provided, i.e., best time to start work; Chinese characters as well as what the day is auspicious for, for some of the dates.


04-2-2013 正月初五日 Tue 定日 Decision Day (except for Rat person 肖鼠忌用) Best date
@ Best Timing: 3pm to 7pm.

05-2-2014 正月初六日 Wed 执日 (except for Ox person 肖牛忌用)
@ Best Timing: 11am to 1pm, 5pm to 7pm.

07-2-2014 正月初八日 Fri 危日 Cautious Day (except for Rabbit person 肖兔忌用)
@ Best Timing: 3pm to 5pm.

08-2-2014 正月初九日 Sat 成日 Success Day (except for Dragon person 肖龍忌用)
@ Best Timing: 1pm to 3pm.

12-2-2014 正月十三日 Wed 建日 Construct Day (except for Monkey person 肖猴忌用)
@ Best Timing: 1pm to 3pm.

13-2-2014 正月十四日 Thu 除日 Release Day (except for Rooster person 肖雞忌用)
@ Best Timing: 3pm to 5pm.

14-2-2014 正月十五日 Fri 满日 Perfect Day (except for Dog person 肖狗忌用)
@ Best Timing: 3pm to 7pm.

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Not sure which animal sign you were born in?  No worries, Wikipedia has the Chinese calendar that goes back to 1925. Check it out, you won't be guessing again especially if you were born in January or February.


Image Source: Wikipedia

6 comments:

  1. hmmm, luckily my animal sign is not mentioned anywhere, so any day from the above would be good for me.. but i also see there are a lot of XXXX Day which kind of confused me, i guess 14-2-2014 正月十五日 Fri 满日 Perfect Day would be the best of all?? but that one too much lah, haha~~

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    1. I too was confused the first time I saw these dates. I wonder if anyone would only start work on Chap Goh Meh - that's stretching it a little too much, eh?

      Wow, good for you that you can start work any day.

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  2. How come so many options for start work day?
    Mine is option 1...

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    1. Option 1 is the most favourable one I suppose. Good thinking to pick that one. However, Foong in comment below has a Joey Yap suggestion. But then again as employees, we do not always have a choice, do we? We just do our best and hope for the best. :D

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  3. According to Joey Yap, the best date is on the 4th February. I will try to start work on that day if only for just 10 mins. LOL!

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    1. Ooh! 5th day, eh? Thanks for sharing this, Foong. Yep, 10 mins is just what it needs - I guess it counts for everything one considers work, blogging included, eh?

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