Chinese Almanac for 2025-03-23
2025-03-23 is Lunar month 2, day 24 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Xin Mao day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-03-23 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 2, day 24 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Travel (出行)
- Open for business (开市)
- Trade (交易)
- Visit friends and family (会亲友)
- Train cattle and horses (教牛马)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Break ground (动土)
- Move house (移徙)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Official's Day (官日), Six Rites (六仪), Blessing Birth (福生), Five Harmony (五合), Bright Hall (明堂), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), Facing Aversion (厌对), Beckoning Star (招摇)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rooster (Yi You day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Xin (Yin Metal) day: traditionally, sauce is not made, as it is said the owner will never taste it.
Mao (Rabbit) day: traditionally, wells are not dug, as it is said the spring water will turn foul.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Southwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | East |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Center |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northeast |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | South |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-03-23 corresponds to Lunar month 2, day 24 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?
2025-03-23 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