Ancient Eighteen Flying Stars
Chinese New Year 2025 Date: Wood Snake
Chinese New Year 2025 fell on January 29. Check the Yi-si Wood Snake dates, the later February 3 Li Chun boundary, and the February 16, 2026 year end.
Direct answer
Chinese New Year 2025 fell on 29 January. The Hong Kong Observatory identifies 2025 as the Yi-si (乙巳) year of the Snake, commonly called the Wood Snake year. Under the public Lunar-New-Year convention, this interval runs from 29 January 2025 through 16 February 2026. Li Chun fell later, on 3 February 2025, so the two methods changed the year on different civil dates.
How to read it
The Hong Kong Observatory's 2025 Gregorian-lunar conversion table identifies the Yi-si year of the Snake. The Heavenly Stem Yi is conventionally associated with yin wood, while the Earthly Branch Si is associated with the Snake. Wood Snake is therefore a calendar designation, not a guaranteed personality description or event forecast.
Under the common public zodiac convention, the annual animal changes on Lunar New Year. The official 2025 table places the first day of the first lunar month on 29 January. The Observatory's 2026 table places the following Lunar New Year on 17 February 2026, so the public Snake-year interval ended on 16 February 2026.
Li Chun fell on 3 February 2025, five days after Lunar New Year. These are different calendar events on different civil dates: Li Chun is a solar term, while Lunar New Year begins the first lunar month. Destin Field uses the exact Li Chun boundary from its documented calendar calculation for the chart's birth-year stem and branch.
A birth from 29 January through the exact Li Chun moment on 3 February 2025 can therefore receive different year labels under the two named conventions. A public zodiac lookup already uses the Snake, while a Destin Field chart keeps the preceding Jia-chen year until the Li Chun boundary. The recorded local date, time, birthplace, and stated convention all matter near the boundary.
This page answers the 2025 calendar question only. It does not publish an annual horoscope, lucky-colour list, compatibility ranking, health warning, wealth forecast, or fixed personality claim. A year animal and stem element are broad labels; a twelve-palace chart requires the recorded birth date, time, place, and additional documented rules.
2025 Wood Snake dates at a glance
2025 stem-branch year
Yi-si (乙巳): the stem Yi is associated with yin wood, and the branch Si is the Snake.
Public zodiac interval
Lunar New Year began on 29 January 2025. The next began on 17 February 2026, so the public Snake interval ended on 16 February 2026.
Destin Field chart boundary
Li Chun fell on 3 February 2025 and the chart uses its exact calculated moment to change the year stem and branch.
Different dates, separate boundaries
Lunar New Year and Li Chun fell on different civil dates in 2025 and remain different calendar events.
Example
For a birth on 1 February 2025, a public zodiac lookup uses the Snake because Lunar New Year has begun. A Destin Field chart keeps the preceding year until the exact Li Chun moment on 3 February. Keep the recorded local time and birthplace instead of combining the two conventions.
Common misunderstandings
- The public 2025 Snake year did not begin on 1 January.
- Lunar New Year began on 29 January, while Li Chun fell on 3 February; they are not interchangeable year boundaries.
- Wood Snake is a calendar designation, not evidence of guaranteed character, luck, health, or events.
Reading boundary
This is a factual calendar and method guide. It does not provide a horoscope, scientific personality measure, or guaranteed prediction for 2025.
Questions people ask
What Chinese zodiac animal was 2025?
The Hong Kong Observatory identifies 2025 as the Yi-si year of the Snake, commonly called the Wood Snake year.
When was Chinese New Year 2025?
Chinese New Year fell on 29 January 2025.
When did the public 2025 Snake year end?
It ended on 16 February 2026 because the following Lunar New Year began on 17 February 2026.
Why can an early-February 2025 result differ?
The public zodiac changed at Lunar New Year on 29 January, while this chart changed its birth-year stem and branch at the exact Li Chun moment on 3 February.
Does this page predict the Wood Snake year?
No. It documents calendar names, dates, and method boundaries without predicting luck, personality, health, relationships, or money.
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Research sources
Chart positions are calculated from documented rules. The written interpretation explains those positions in modern language. A reply from the site owner is a separate human opinion; neither is presented as a quotation from the historical texts.
- System
- Textual Reconstruction of the Ancient Eighteen Flying Stars System
- Author
- Yilong Cheng
- Source review
- Destin Field source review
- Updated
- Wikisource — Purple Star Astrology, Xu Daozang edition
- Chinese Text Project — Purple Star Astrology, Volume One
- Historical edition — Complete Fine Manuscript of the Eighteen Flying Stars Purple Star Astrology, ISBN 9789866171680 (translated bibliographic title, not the Destin Field system name)
- Hong Kong Observatory — 2025 Gregorian-lunar conversion table
- Hong Kong Observatory — 2026 Gregorian-lunar conversion table
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