Chinese Almanac for 2028-03-20

2028-03-20 is Lunar month 2, day 25 on the Chinese lunar calendar, a Jia Chen day in the Wu Shen (Monkey) year.

Key facts

Gregorian date 2028-03-20
Lunar date Lunar month 2, day 25
Year (Ganzhi) Wu (Yang Earth) Shen (Monkey)
Month (Ganzhi) Yi (Yin Wood) Mao (Rabbit)
Day (Ganzhi) Jia (Yang Wood) Chen (Dragon)
Year zodiac Monkey
Solar term today Spring Equinox

Auspicious for (宜)

  • Offer sacrifices (祭祀)
  • Take a ritual bath (沐浴)
  • Perform a purification ritual (解除)
  • Sweep the house (扫舍)
  • Seal up holes and burrows (塞穴)
  • Raise livestock (牧养)

Inauspicious for (忌)

  • Marry (嫁娶)
  • Bury the deceased (安葬)
  • Hold a funeral procession (行丧)
  • Install a door (安门)

Auspicious spirits (吉神)

Month's Virtue (月德), Guarding Day (守日), Auspicious Period (吉期)

Inauspicious spirits (凶煞)

Month Harm (月害), Heaven's Punishment (天刑)

Clash & direction to avoid

Clashes with Dog (Wu Xu 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.

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) Northeast
God of Fortune (福神) North
God of Wealth (财神) Northeast
Tai Sui (太岁) West
Yang Noble God (阳贵神) Southwest
Yin Noble God (阴贵神) Northeast

What is today's lunar date?

2028-03-20 corresponds to Lunar month 2, day 25 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?

2028-03-20 falls in the Wu Shen year, the year of the Monkey.

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