Chinese Almanac for 2025-08-04
2025-08-04 is Lunar month 6, day 11 (leap month) on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Yi Si day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-08-04 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 6, day 11 (leap month) |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Gui (Yin Water) Wei (Goat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Treat illness (治病)
- Learn a craft (习艺)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Build a roof (盖屋)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Build the stove (作灶)
- Install a millstone (安碓磑)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Travel (出行)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Build a bridge (造桥)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
King's Day (王日), Post Horse (驿马), Heaven's Empress (天后), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气), Blessing Birth (福生), Jade Hall (玉堂)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Aversion (月厌), Earth Fire (地火), Double Day (重日)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Pig (Ji Hai day); traditionally best to avoid the East direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Yi (Yin Wood) day: traditionally, planting is avoided, as it is said a thousand saplings will not grow.
Si (Snake) day: traditionally, long journeys are avoided, as it is said belongings will be lost or hidden.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northwest |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southwest |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | West |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | North |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-08-04 corresponds to Lunar month 6, day 11 (leap month) 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?
2025-08-04 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