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Chinese calendar, 23 July 2025
23 July 2025 is lunar month 6, day 29, 2025, the Wood Snake year. The day pillar is Yin Water Snake. 19 named Yi activities; 7 named Ji activities. 7 auspicious time windows; waning crescent.
Wednesday
July 2025
Lunar date
6th Month · 29th Day
二〇二五年六月廿九
Year of the
Wood generates Fire in the Five Phases, so the year element supports the Snake’s fixed element.
Moon phase
Lunar day 29 · between principal phases
Daily almanac · 2025-07-23
The daily almanac & observances
癸巳 Yin Water Snake
The stem gives Water; the branch gives Snake.
Read this stem against your Day Master →Huang Dao and Hei Dao name the day-god cycle. For a particular plan, read its Yi and Ji activities below.
宜 Traditionally suitable
- Hold a wedding嫁娶
- Formalize a betrothal agreement订盟
- Ritual offerings祭祀
- Pray for blessings祈福
- Pray for children求嗣
- Make a formal betrothal proposal纳采
- Cut or make clothes裁衣
- Coming-of-age ceremony冠笄
- Consecrate a sacred image开光
- Set up a bed安床
- Make structural beams作梁
- Build or renovate修造
- Begin construction earthworks动土
- Build or install a stove作灶
- Lay a foundation起基
- Raise the main roof beam上梁
- Roof or build a house盖屋
- Acquire livestock纳畜
- Raise livestock牧养
忌 Traditionally avoid
- Move residence移徙
- Plant crops栽种
- Travel出行
- Hold funeral rites行丧
- Begin burial excavation破土
- Burial安葬
- Legal proceedings词讼
Month 6 · 30 days
25 June 2025–24 July 2025. 1 days remain after this date.
Follow the Moon through this month →Qixi
29 August 2025 · Across documented Chinese traditions, women and girls have set out seasonal fruit and held needlework or other skill contests, though forms differ sharply by region and many have faded.
The Moon this month · UTC+8
July 2025 moon phases
First quarter
Lunar 6/9
Full moon
Lunar 6/17
Last quarter
Lunar 6/24
New moon
Lunar leap 6/1
Calculated phase moments use fixed UTC+8. A lunar day number and a Moon phase describe different things. How they fit together →
The surrounding month
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Calendar terms explained
This day in the traditional cycles
Each result below names this date’s position and explains what the term means.
- Day pillar 日柱
- Yin Water Snake · 癸巳— this date’s position in the repeating 60-day stem–branch cycle.Hidden stems are stems conventionally contained in the day pillar’s earthly branch. Primary is the main layer; middle and residual are secondary layers.
- Yang Fire · Bǐng 丙 (primary)
- Yang Metal · Gēng 庚 (middle)
- Yang Earth · Wù 戊 (residual)
- Month pillar 月柱
- Yin Water Goat · 癸未— the month’s position in the 60-part stem–branch cycle.
- Year pillar 年柱
- Yin Wood Snake · 乙巳— Wood generates Fire; the year’s position in the 60-year cycle.
- Day Na Yin 纳音
- Long-flowing Water · 长流水— a fixed named element assigned to this pillar; its element is Water.
- Day animal 生肖
- Snake · 蛇— the animal of the earthly branch in this date’s pillar.
- Opposes 冲
- Yin Fire Pig · 丁亥— a Six Clash (六冲), the branch directly opposite this date’s branch in the 12-branch cycle.
- Lunar mansion 宿
- Chariot · 轸— this date’s position in the repeating 28-mansion cycle.South palace (南) · Earthworm creature (蚓) · traditionally favourable (吉)
- Day officer 建除
- Open · 开— determined by this date’s earthly branch relative to its solar-term month branch.
- Auspicious directions 吉方
- Joy 喜神: Southeast (东南)
- Blessing 福神: Northeast (东北)
- Wealth 财神: South (正南)
- Peng Zu lines 彭祖百忌
- The verse cautions against lawsuits, saying one’s case may be weaker than the opponent’s.癸不词讼理弱敌强The verse cautions against long travel, saying possessions may be hidden or lost.巳不远行财物伏藏Two traditional almanac caution lines selected by this date’s stem and branch.
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