Chinese Almanac for 2025-01-05
2025-01-05 is Lunar month 12, day 6 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Xu day in the Jia Chen (Dragon) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-01-05 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 12, day 6 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Chou (Ox) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Xu (Dog) |
| Year zodiac | Dragon |
| Solar term today | Minor Cold |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Hunt or trap (捕捉)
- Hunt (畋猎)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Open a warehouse (开仓)
- Build a roof (盖屋)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Set up a bed (安床)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month Void (月空), Four Images (四相), Sacred Heart (圣心), Azure Dragon (青龙)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Net (天罡), Month Punishment (月刑), Five Voids (五虚), Eight Winds (八风)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dragon (Wu Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-01-05 corresponds to Lunar month 12, day 6 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?
2025-01-05 falls in the Jia Chen year, the year of the Dragon.
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