Chinese Almanac for 2025-03-19
2025-03-19 is Lunar month 2, day 20 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ding Hai day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-03-19 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 2, day 20 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Hai (Pig) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Open for business (开市)
- Sign a contract (立券)
- Trade (交易)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Break ground (动土)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
- Set up a frame (架马)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
- Get a haircut (理发)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Fell trees (伐木)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Mother's Granary (母仓), Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), Triple Harmony (三合), Day of Attendance (临日), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Double Day (重日), Black Tortoise (元武)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Snake (Xin Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ding (Yin Fire) day: traditionally, hair is not cut, as it is said sores will form on the head.
Hai (Pig) day: traditionally, marriages are not held, as it is said it will be unlucky for the groom.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | West |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-03-19 corresponds to Lunar month 2, 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?
2025-03-19 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