Chinese Almanac for 2025-10-20
2025-10-20 is Lunar month 8, day 29 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Ren Xu day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-10-20 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 8, day 29 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Bing (Yang Fire) Xu (Dog) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Ren (Yang Water) Xu (Dog) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Pray for blessings (祈福)
- Pray for offspring (求嗣)
- Consecrate a deity statue (开光)
- Travel (出行)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Install a door (安门)
- Collect wealth (纳财)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Fell trees (伐木)
- Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Dig a canal (开渠)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month Void (月空), Mother's Granary (母仓), Four Images (四相), Guarding Day (守日), Heavenly Horse (天马)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), White Tiger (白虎)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dragon (Bing Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North 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.
Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.
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?
2025-10-20 corresponds to Lunar month 8, 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?
2025-10-20 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