Chinese Almanac for 2025-05-25
2025-05-25 is Lunar month 4, day 28 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Wu day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-05-25 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 4, day 28 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Xin (Yin Metal) Si (Snake) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Wu (Horse) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- 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)
- Travel (出行)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Plant (栽种)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Raise livestock (牧养)
- Break ground (动土)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Open a warehouse (开仓)
- Build a roof (盖屋)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month Void (月空), Heaven's Pardon (天赦), Official's Day (官日), Auspicious Period (吉期), Sacred Heart (圣心), Azure Dragon (青龙), Barking Dog (鸣吠)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Great Time (大时), Great Defeat (大败), Peach Blossom Pond (咸池)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Rat (Wu Zi 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.
Wu (Horse) day: traditionally, roofs are not thatched, as it is said the owner's fortune will change.
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?
2025-05-25 corresponds to Lunar month 4, day 28 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?
2025-05-25 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