✦ Traditional Lunisolar Horology ✦

Chinese Zodiac Calculator

Discover your Earthly Branch animal, Heavenly Stem, cyclical Ganzhi year, and Wuxing five-element profile.

Traditional Chinese Lunisolar Zodiac and Armillary Astrometry

Lunisolar Calendar & Solar Term (Lichun) Standards

Chinese calendar calculations align with authoritative astronomical data from the Purple Mountain Observatory (CAS) and the sexagenary (Ganzhi) cycle spanning 1900–2100 CE, accurately distinguishing between the lunar New Year (Chunjie) and the solar term start of spring (Lichun).

Understanding the Sexagenary Cycle & Earthly Branches

Traditional Chinese astrometry correlates the 10 Heavenly Stems (Tiangan) and 12 Earthly Branches (Dizhi) to form a sixty-year cyclical matrix. Each year synthesizes a Yin or Yang polarity, an elemental phase (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water), and an animal archetype rooted in ancient Shang and Zhou dynasty observation.

Read our complete Chinese Lunisolar Calculation Methodology →