2025/5/5 (Gregorian) Mon

Lunar Yi-Si year, 4th month, day 8

Yi-Si yearXin-Si monthJia-Xu dayZodiac: Snake

Today is Beginning of Summer

Begins at 5月5日 13:57

Next solar term: Grain Buds, 5月21日 02:55 (in 16 days)

Dos, don'ts and spirits

Good for

  • Worship
  • Consecrating a Religious Statue
  • Travel
  • Exorcism or Purification Rites
  • Sculpting or Painting Religious Images
  • Cutting Cloth for Clothes
  • Placing a Body in the Coffin
  • Moving a Coffin
  • Breaking Ground for a Grave
  • Exhuming a Grave
  • Burial
  • Ending the Mourning Period
  • Putting on Mourning Clothes

Avoid

  • Marriage
  • Raising the Ridge Beam
  • Renovation
  • Demolition
  • Setting Up a Scaffold
  • Moving into a New Home
  • Felling Trees
  • Breaking Ground
  • Moving a Household Shrine or Stove
  • Drilling a Post Hole
Clash
Clashes with Dragon · Sha in the North
12 Day Officers
Hold
28 Lunar Mansions
Heart mansion
Nayin element
Fire on the Mountain Top
Joy deity direction
Northeast
Wealth deity direction
Northeast
Fetal deity location
Door & Coop · outside, southwest
Peng Zu's taboos
Jia day: don't open storehouses — wealth would scatter. / Xu (Dog) day: don't eat dog meat — it would cause trouble in your sleep.

Favorable and unfavorable activities, clashes and similar entries follow the method common to traditional almanacs. Almanacs differ slightly, so use this as a reference only. It doesn't replace professional date selection or any medical, legal or financial judgment.

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