The Real Story Behind
The Chinese Birth Calendar

What is a Chinese birth calendar and how can it help you?

How about we first take a trip to modern China.

In China, as far as we all know, they are pretty happy with their Gregorian Calendar. (The one named after a lucky dude called Greg).

That calendar is known as the Western calendar, but they secretly use the 'Chinese calendar' for all the traditional holidays, such as Chinese New Year, and in astrology.

The extra cool thing about this Chinese calendar is that each month follows one cycle of the moon.

It is also used to determine the phases of the moon.

That means you'll know things like when it's a full moon and why the hair on the back of your neck is standing up.

True Story Or Ancient Mystery?

Chinese calendar design Bag

Pretty much wherever you are in East Asia, you'll find the calendars are similar. You know what it's like. When something is really good, everyone wants a piece of it!

Of course one of the most important things is the auspicious dates. But firstly, let's travel back in time.

Way back in the third millennium BCE (that's a real long time ago) it's said that the first legendary ruler, Huang Di, also known as the Yellow Emperor, started putting numbers and funny looking symbols on paper.

Fortunately, from then on, everyone pretty much agreed to go with the 7 days a week, roughly 365 days a year, 12 hours in a day calendar type concept.

Then, before you can say twelve animals fighting, we're back in modern day land wondering how to best use the Chinese birth calendar.

So if you're wondering if your baby is going to be a monkey or a goat (Chinese zodiac signs), then what you want to do is study this stuff.

It's guaranteed to rather challenge - or perplex you!

Hiroshige 2010 Chinese Calendar

Either way, to sum it all up, the Chinese calendar remains culturally essential, and 'lucky dates', auspicious activities, weddings and business deals are all just as important now as they were then.

Which Chinese animal are you?

Anyway, putting the rumor and legend aside, here's a not too serious, high degree of fun:

Chinese Birth Calendar Super Selection

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