Chinese Almanac for 2025-04-13
2025-04-13 is Lunar month 3, day 16 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Zi day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-04-13 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 3, day 16 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Chen (Dragon) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold a coming-of-age ceremony (冠笄)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Break ground (动土)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Build a temple (造庙)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Dig a pond (开池)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- None (无)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue (天德), Month's Virtue (月德), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Mother's Granary (母仓), Triple Harmony (三合), Heaven's Joy (天喜), Heaven's Physician (天医), Heaven's Granary (天仓), Sacred Heart (圣心), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Four Depletions (四耗), Return Taboo (归忌), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Bing Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ren (Yang Water) day: traditionally, water is not released, as it is said it will be hard to contain.
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) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | South |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | North |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | East |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-04-13 corresponds to Lunar month 3, day 16 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?
2025-04-13 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