Chinese Almanac for 2025-04-28
2025-04-28 is Lunar month 4, day 1 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ding Mao day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-04-28 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 4, day 1 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Geng (Yang Metal) Chen (Dragon) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ding (Yin Fire) Mao (Rabbit) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Travel (出行)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Make bed curtains (合帐)
- Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Move house (移徙)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Build a grave in advance while living (开生坟)
- Make a coffin (合寿木)
- Repair a wall (补垣)
- Seal up holes and burrows (塞穴)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Get a haircut (理发)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Install a door (安门)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Virtue Combination (天德合), Month's Virtue Combination (月德合), Heaven's Grace (天恩), Four Images (四相), Official's Day (官日), Essential Peace (要安), Five Harmony (五合), Barking Dog Opposite (鸣吠对)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Harm (月害), Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Blood Branch (血支), Gouchen — Yellow Dragon (勾陈)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rooster (Xin You 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.
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) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Southwest |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | West |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-04-28 corresponds to Lunar month 4, day 1 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?
2025-04-28 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