Chinese Almanac for 2025-05-19
2025-05-19 is Lunar month 4, day 22 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Wu Zi day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-05-19 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 4, day 22 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Si (Snake) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Build a cart or tool (造车器)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Plant (栽种)
- 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)
- Open for business (开市)
- Sign a contract (立券)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Four Images (四相), Heavenly Horse (天马), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Heaven's Officer (天吏), Fatal Star (致死), Five Voids (五虚), White Tiger (白虎)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Ren Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Wu (Yang Earth) day: traditionally, land is not accepted, as it is said to be inauspicious for the landowner.
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) | Southeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Northeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | North |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Center |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Northeast |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southwest |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-05-19 corresponds to Lunar month 4, day 22 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?
2025-05-19 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