Chinese Almanac for 2025-03-08
2025-03-08 is Lunar month 2, day 9 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Bing Zi day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-03-08 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 2, day 9 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- Make bed curtains (合帐)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Take in a son-in-law (纳婿)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Open for business (开市)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Mother's Granary (母仓), Four Images (四相), Yang Virtue (阳德), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Kitchen God (司命), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Net (天罡), Month Punishment (月刑), Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池), Heaven's Thief (天贼), Water Dragon Contact (触水龙)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Geng Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Bing (Yang Fire) day: traditionally, the stove is not repaired, as it is said disaster will follow.
Zi (Rat) day: traditionally, diviners are not consulted, as it is said doing so brings calamity on oneself.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | South |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | West |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-03-08 corresponds to Lunar month 2, day 9 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?
2025-03-08 falls in the Yi Si year, the year of the Snake.
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