When is the Chinese New Year 2025?
The 2025 Chinese New Year Day is on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 in China's time zone. This day is the new moon day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system. The exact new moon time is at 20:36 on 2025-01-29, in the China time zone.
The first day of the Green Snake year is not the Chinese New Year Day in Chinese Astrology. The first day of the Tiger month is the first day of the Chinese Astrology year. This day is called Start of Spring, which is the date when the sun enters the 315th degree on the tropical zodiac. This day is around February 4, each year. 2025 Chinese Green Snake starts on February 3, 2025 in China's time zone. That means the Chinese Lunar New Year is not the first day of Green Snake Year. If a baby is born before February 3, 2025, then the baby's zodiac sign is the Dragon, not Snake.
Coming Chinese New Year Days
| Chinese New Year Dates in the China Time Zone | |||
| Year | Zodiac Animal Sign | New Year | First Zodiac |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Green Wood Snake | Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 | February 3, 2025 |
| 2026 | Red Fire Horse | Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026 | February 3, 2025 |
| 2027 | Red Fire Sheep | Saturday, Feb. 6, 2027 | February 3, 2025 |
The new moon time determines the new moon date. The new moon time is at 20:36 on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, in the China time zone. Therefore, Chinese New Year Day is Wednesday, January 29, 2025.The new moon time is at 7:59 on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, in the US Pacific time zone. Therefore, the 2025 Chinese New Year Day is on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 in the Pacific Time zone.
| Chinese New Year Dates in US Pacific Time Zone | |||
| Year | Zodiac Animal Sign | New Year | First Zodiac |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Green Wood Snake | Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025 | Feb. 3, 2025 |
| 2026 | Red Fire Horse | Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026 | Feb. 3, 2026 |
| 2027 | Red Fire Sheep | Saturday, Feb. 6, 2027 | Feb. 3, 2027 |
2025 National Chinese Holidays
How Old is the China?
Some web sites say the year 2025 is the 4722nd Chinese year. If you cannot find the explanation, here is a possible answer for you. The Yellow King's inauguration was held in the spring of 2697 B.C. But the calendar of Yellow King used the winter solstice day as the first day of the year. The winter solstice was on around December 23rd, 2698 B.C. Today's January 1st means nothing to Yellow King. If we count that extra eight days in 2698 B.C. for a year, then the year 2025 is the 4723rd Chinese year.
2025 is the 4722nd Chinese Year.
However, Chinese civilization is up to 8000 years.
What's meaning of Green Wood Snake?
Yi-Si is the Chinese zodiac name of Stem-Branch calendar for 2018. Each zodiac is labeled with a name of Yin-Yang Five Elements. Yi is Yin Wood. Si is Snake. Therefore, the name of 2025 is called Yin Wood Snake. Yin is female and Yang is male. The color of Wood is Green. 2025 is the Female Green Wood Snake year.
The first Stem-Branch name is found in the document around 1739 B.C. The original stems and branches only use for counting the days. Using Stem-Branch to count for Month, Hour and Year sequences began around 206 B.C. during Chin dynasty and Han dynasty. Using the season changing information, Chinese Yin Yang Five Element scholars converted all zodiac signs into five elements. The theory of Five Elements becomes the foundation of Chinese fortunetelling.
Yin Wood is grass, vine, flower, tiny plant, or tender plant. Yin Wood is female. Yin Wood is weeds and can speedily spread over the hill. Yin Wood is a vine and can climb over tall walls. Yin Wood can survive under strong wind. The characteristics of Yin Wood are quiet, docile, steadfast, endurable, respectful, and peaceful. The other traits of Yin Wood are passive, self-abased, jealous, irresolute, indecisive, and penny-pinching. Yin Wood likes sunshine and doesn't like too much cold water. Yin Wood needs to climb the tall tree of Yang Wood to have a better vision for the future. If Yang Wood is tall and strong, then people can see Yin Wood. Yin Wood is smart with many ideas and can be a consultant. Yin Wood is the 2nd element of 10 Heavenly Stems. The color of Yin Wood is green. The location of Yin Wood is in the east.
Zodiac Snake is the 6th animal sign of 12 Earthly Branches.
The Zodiac Snake is in the Fire group. It is a Yang Fire, which is related to the sun. Therefore, the Zodiac Snake is connected to summer heat and energy. The energy of fire grows upward, but it can't last too long. Fire is associated with the south, and the color of Fire is red, representing heat, warmth, and vitality. People with a strong Fire element are often charismatic, energetic, passionate, and enthusiastic. Zodiac Snake possesses characteristics of the sun, such as being aboveboard, selfless, cordial, ambitious, righteous, and foresighted.
The snake is a cold-blooded animal. The appearance of the Snake, with its flicking forked tongue and serpentine movement, often gives people a bad impression. People think the snake is not straightforward, dishonest, and sly. They say the snake fell down from heaven, dethroning the Dragon. It is called the "little dragon" in China and is considered very shy. Snakes like to hide in grass or holes.
The Snake has the ability to swallow an animal bigger than its size, so we cannot underestimate the Snake's ambition. We shouldn't ignore the existence of the Snake. The Snake is a limbless animal with a forked tongue. The Chinese interpret that spitting tongue as a sign of argument. Actually, the Snake uses its tongue to smell. However, in the Chinese zodiac, the Snake implies the potential trouble of libel, dispute, or slander.
Yin-Wood Snake is the Green Snake, which is the 42nd symbol of the 60 zodiac animals. The Zodiac Snake is in the Fire group. The Snake contains Yang Fire, Yang Earth, and Yang Metal. Yang Fire is associated with the sun, suggesting that the Zodiac Snake is energetic, passionate, righteous, and aboveboard. Yang Earth is related to the mountain, implying that the Wooden Snake is a Snake hiding in the grass on the mountain. It is said that the Snake brings the Dragon down from heaven. It is a very shy, cautious, and low-key animal.
The Snake has a forked tongue, which is a symbol of eloquence, argument, dispute, or slyness. Snakes can swallow animals larger than their size, so we cannot underestimate the Snake's ambition. Although without legs, the Snake's serpentine movement is very fast. In Chinese astrology, the Snake is considered a Traveling Star and likes to pursue a career out of town.
The Snake month is the first month of summer, the season of Fire. Yin Wood is associated with grass, leaves, and flowers, which help Fire burn into a raging and roaring Fire. This will bring good fortune to people whose astrology birth chart lacks Fire.
2025 Chinese Horoscope Forecasts
Chinese Fortune Calendar provides two different 2025 predictions. The first method is the simple Chinese Zodiac Prediction to analyze the relationship between Green Snake and your zodiac sign. The second method is the traditional Chinese Five Element Astrology. It will read your complete Chinese Astrology birth chart, Find Your Lucky Element, then forecast your luck in the Green Snake year. This way is required your correct birthday and birth time.
Chinese New Year Festival Before and After
2025 Chinese Lunar Calendar
Chinese New Year Day is the first lunar day of the first Chinese lunar month. That means the new moon day is the first lunar day. The new moon day could fall to a different day in a different time zone. Therefore, lunar months have different patterns between China and the USA time zones. This will impact the Chinese Baby Gender Selection calendar.
Chinese lunar calendar is quite complicate. Actually, it has to work with the solar calendar. A lunar month has 29 or 30 days long. In order to match up the solar cycle, the Chinese lunar calendar has to add additional 7 lunar months every 19 years. The following topics are the detail explanations of Chinese Lunar calendar.
- 2025 China & USA Chinese Lunar Months
- List Starting and Ending Lunar Month Dates
- List Chinese Lunar Months with Leap Month
- What is Chinese Lunar Calendar?
- What is Chinese Leap Months?
- The History of Chinese Lunar Calendar
2025 Complete Chinese Calendars
2025 Chinese Baby Gender Calendar
2025 Feng Shui for Chinese New Year
The 2-Black Star flies into the center palace of the 9-Star diagram in 2025. Therefore, the kua number of 2025 is 2-Black.
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Lucky directions are
1 (White) is connected to Business, Romance, Social
Relationships.
4 (Green) is connected to Intelligence, Academic Achievement.
6 (White) is connected to Windfall, Money, Power, Position.
8 (White) is connected to Money, Wealth.
9 (Purple) is connected to Happiness, Marriage.
Unlucky directions are
2
(Black) is connected to Illness and Sickness.
3 (Green) is connected to Quarrel, Dispute, Lawsuit.
5 (Yellow) is connected to Sick, Trouble, Bad Luck.
7 (Red) is connected to Robbery, Villain.
The most unlucky direction is Yellow 5 at western side. Do not have any
remodeling in the western area of your house.
List 2025 Rich, Romantic, Wisdom Houses using Feng Shui Flying Stars
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The Meaning of Ten God Astrology
2024 Yearly Five Element Charts