Chinese Almanac for 2025-05-15
2025-05-15 is Lunar month 4, day 18 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Shen day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-05-15 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 4, day 18 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Si (Snake) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Shen (Monkey) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Level roads (平治道涂)
- Sweep the house (扫舍)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Move house (移徙)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Build a roof (盖屋)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month Void (月空), Minister's Day (相日), Six Harmony (六合), Five Riches (五富), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Continuing Generations (续世), Removing Spirit (除神), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
River Chief (河魁), Death God (死神), Month Punishment (月刑), Wandering Calamity (游祸), Five Voids (五虚), Eight Winds (八风), Blood Taboo (血忌), Five Separations (五离), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Tiger (Wu Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Shen (Monkey) day: traditionally, beds are not set up, as it is said spirits will enter the room.
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?
2025-05-15 corresponds to Lunar month 4, day 18 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?
2025-05-15 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