Chinese Almanac for 2025-12-31
2025-12-31 is Lunar month 11, day 12 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Xu day in the Yi Si (Snake) year.
Key facts
| Gregorian date | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|
| Lunar date | Lunar month 11, day 12 |
| Year (Ganzhi) | Yi (Yin Wood) Si (Snake) |
| Month (Ganzhi) | Wu (Yang Earth) Zi (Rat) |
| Day (Ganzhi) | Jia (Yang Wood) Xu (Dog) |
| Year zodiac | Snake |
Auspicious for (宜)
- 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)
- Sculpt or paint deity images (塑绘)
- Perform a purification ritual (解除)
- Dismantle (拆卸)
- Renovate and build (修造)
- Break ground (动土)
- Erect pillars (竖柱)
- Raise the roof beam (上梁)
- Install a door (安门)
- Acquire property (置产)
- Dig a pond (开池)
- Dig a well (掘井)
- Bring in livestock (纳畜)
- Set up a bed (安床)
- Plant (栽种)
- Build a livestock pen (造畜稠)
- Break ground for burial (破土)
- Move the coffin (移柩)
- Erect a tombstone (立碑)
Inauspicious for (忌)
- Marry (嫁娶)
- Open for business (开市)
- Relocate the household fire (出火)
- Welcome new household members (进人口)
- Encoffin the deceased (入殓)
- Take office (赴任)
- Move into a new home (入宅)
- Move house (移徙)
- Travel (出行)
- Bury the deceased (安葬)
Auspicious spirits (吉神)
Month's Grace (月恩), Four Images (四相), Hour's Yang (时阳), Vital Energy (生气)
Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)
Five Voids (五虚), Eight Winds (八风), Nine Voids (九空), Departure and Loss (往亡), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)
Clash & direction to avoid
Clashes with Dragon (Wu Chen day); traditionally best to avoid the North direction.
Peng Zu's Hundred Taboos
Jia (Yang Wood) day: traditionally, warehouses are not opened, as it is said wealth will be squandered.
Xu (Dog) day: traditionally, dog meat is not eaten, as it is said strange things will happen.
Auspicious directions
| God of Joy (喜神) | Northeast |
|---|---|
| God of Fortune (福神) | North |
| God of Wealth (财神) | Northeast |
| Tai Sui (太岁) | Southeast |
| Yang Noble God (阳贵神) | Southwest |
| Yin Noble God (阴贵神) | Northeast |
What is today's lunar date?
2025-12-31 corresponds to Lunar month 11, day 12 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?
2025-12-31 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