Chinese Almanac for 2025-09-20
2025-09-20 is Lunar month 7, day 29 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Chen day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-09-20 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 7, day 29 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) You (Rooster) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Chen (Dragon) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Present betrothal gifts (纳采)
- Hold an engagement ceremony (订盟)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Get a haircut (理发)
- Make roof beams (作梁)
- 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)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Hang a plaque (挂匾)
- Plant (栽种)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Open for business (开市)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Dig a canal (开渠)
- Build a bridge (造桥)
- Build a boat (造船)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Mother's Granary (母仓), Four Images (四相), Six Harmony (六合), Not Leading — Favorable for Marriage (不将), Reverent Peace (敬安)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Havoc (月煞), Month Emptiness (月虚), Four Strikes (四击), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dog (Bing Xu 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.
Chen (Dragon) day: traditionally, weeping is avoided, as it is said to foretell a second death in the family.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | South |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | Southeast |
| God of Wealth (财神) | South |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Center |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | East |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Southeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-09-20 corresponds to Lunar month 7, day 29 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?
2025-09-20 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