Chinese Almanac for 2021-10-25

2021-10-25 is Lunar month 9, day 20 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Wu day in the Xin Chou (Ox) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2021-10-25
Lunar date Lunar month 9, day 20
Year (Ganzhi) Xin (Yin Metal) Chou (Ox)
Month (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Xu (Dog)
Day (Ganzhi) Bing (Yang Fire) Wu (Horse)
Year zodiac Ox

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
  • Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
  • Travel (出行)
  • Open for business (开市)
  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Pray for blessings (祈福)
  • Break ground (动土)
  • Move house (移徙)
  • Move into a new home (入宅)
  • Break ground for burial (破土)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
  • Install a door (安门)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Heaven's Virtue (天德), Month's Virtue (月德), Triple Harmony (三合), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Essential Peace (要安), Barking Dog (鸣吠)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Heaven's Punishment (天刑)

Clash & direction to avoid

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

Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos

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

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

What is today's lunar date?

2021-10-25 corresponds to Lunar month 9, 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?

2021-10-25 falls in the Xin Chou year, the year of the Ox.

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