Chinese Almanac for 2025-12-21
2025-12-21 is Lunar month 11, day 2 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Zi day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-12-21 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 2 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Zi (Rat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Zi (Rat) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
| Solar term today | Winter Solstice |
Auspicious for (宜)
- Trade (交易)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
- Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
- Hunt or trap (捕捉)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- End mourning (除服)
- Put on mourning clothes (成服)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
- Thank the earth god (谢土)
- Exhume for reburial (启钻)
- Renovate a grave (修坟)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Hold a Taoist purification rite (斋醮)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Heaven's Grace (天恩), Heaven's Pardon (天赦), Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), Official's Day (官日), Reverent Peace (敬安), Golden Chest (金匮)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Month Establishment (月建), Minor Time (小时), Earth's Mansion (土府), Month Aversion (月厌), Earth Fire (地火)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Horse (Wu Wu day); traditionally best to avoid the South direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Zi (Rat) day: traditionally, diviners are not consulted, as it is said doing so brings calamity on oneself.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | East |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-12-21 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 2 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?
2025-12-21 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