Chinese Almanac for 2025-08-31
2025-08-31 is Lunar month 7, day 9 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Shen day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-08-31 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 7, day 9 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Shen (Monkey) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Shen (Monkey) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Travel (出行)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Plant (栽种)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Break ground (动土)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Acquire property (置产)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Virtue (月德), Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), King's Day (王日)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth Talisman (土符), Five Separations (五离), Heaven's Prison (天牢)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Tiger (Bing Yin day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Ren (Yang Water) day: traditionally, water is not released, as it is said it will be hard to contain.
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) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | South |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | East |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-08-31 corresponds to Lunar month 7, day 9 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?
2025-08-31 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