Chinese Almanac for 2025-05-05
2025-05-05 is Lunar month 4, day 8 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Xu day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-05-05 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 4, day 8 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Si (Snake) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Xu (Dog) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
| Solar term today | Start of Summer |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Cut cloth for tailoring (裁衣)
- 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)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Set up a frame (架马)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Break ground (动土)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Drill pillar mortises (开柱眼)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month Void (月空), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Jade Palace (玉宇), Untying Spirit (解神), Golden Chest (金匮)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Minor Depletion (小耗), Heaven's Thief (天贼)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dragon (Wu Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-05-05 corresponds to Lunar month 4, day 8 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?
2025-05-05 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