Chinese Almanac for 2025-03-31
2025-03-31 is Lunar month 3, day 3 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ji Hai day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-03-31 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 3, day 3 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ji (Yin Earth) Hai (Pig) |
| 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)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Get a haircut (理发)
- Set up a loom (经络)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Treat illness (治病)
- Erect a tombstone (立碑)
- Plant (栽种)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Dig a pond (开池)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Lay foundation stones (定磉)
- Make a coffin (合寿木)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Mother's Granary (母仓), 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 (Gui Si day); traditionally best to avoid the West direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ji (Yin Earth) day: traditionally, contracts are not torn up, as it is said both parties will suffer loss.
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) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | North |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | North |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-03-31 corresponds to Lunar month 3, day 3 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?
2025-03-31 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