Detailed explanation of Bazi (Eight Characters), traditional and simplified characters, and calendars. Each article cites sources and verifiable facts.
Many people believe that leap months alter the month pillar in BaZi, but the month pillar is determined by solar terms (節氣), not by lunar months. A leap month is merely a calendar adjustment in the lunar system and has nothing to do with the month pillar. This article explains the relationship between solar terms and the month pillar, and why leap months do not affect chart calculation.
Published on 2026-10-07 · About 6 minutes
When recording birthdays or anniversaries of death, do you write the date using the Gregorian calendar or the lunar calendar? The Gregorian date corresponding to a lunar date changes every year, and manual look-ups are prone to error. This site provides automatic conversion of lunar dates and reminders, with a privacy-focused design for sensitive titles like "Anniversary of Mother's Passing."
Published on 2026-08-04 · About 3 minutes
The Almanac calendar can display holidays for multiple regions simultaneously, but if 'data not found' looks the same as 'we haven't entered it yet,' users will plan their schedules based on it. This article explains how the tool is designed and why mainland China's make-up workdays require special handling.
Published on 2026-08-04 · About 4 minutes
In the saying 'If the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will be crooked,' does the character for 'beam' need the wood radical (木)? Looking up the Ministry of Education dictionary, we find that '上樑' (shangliang with 樑) has zero results, while '上梁' (shangliang with 梁) has six main entries and two appendices.
Published on 2026-08-04 · About 3 minutes
The Chinese training data for large language models is predominantly in Simplified Chinese. Producing Traditional Chinese content is essentially a post-hoc conversion, not native generation. This leads to a specific type of error: a correct Traditional Chinese passage will occasionally have one or two Simplified character forms slip in.
Published on 2026-08-04 · About 5 minutes
The seventh lunar month appears on the Gregorian calendar on different dates each year, sometimes in August, sometimes in July, or even in September. This is not a calendar error but an inevitable result of the two calendar systems operating on their own principles.
Published on 2026-08-04 · About 3 minutes
Every year around mid-year, images of 'next year's calendar' start circulating on social media. Is this information accurate? The reality is that different countries and cultural backgrounds have vastly different rhythms for announcing holidays; some don't finalize until the fourth quarter of the preceding year.
Published on 2026-08-04 · About 4 minutes
2026 and 2027, which are the ganzhi years of Bingwu and Dingwei, have once again sparked discussions about the 'Red Horse, Red Sheep Calamity' online. How is this saying actually calculated? What fundamental problems exist in its underlying logic? This article lays out the calculation process and examines it step by step.
Published on 2026-08-04 · About 4 minutes
Where does the conclusion 'This year, the Rat clashes with Tai Sui' come from? This article does not discuss auspiciousness or inauspiciousness; it simply lays out the rules for the relationships between the zodiac’s earthly branch (地支 dìzhī) and Tai Sui, such as clash (沖), punishment (刑), harm (害), and others.
Published on 2026-08-04 · About 4 minutes
Why do the five-phase numbers calculated by different websites often not match up? The differences almost always come from statistical scope, not calculation errors. This site's standard is the four heavenly stems plus all the earthly branches' hidden stems, totaling thirteen. The numbers are laid out for you; interpretation requires schools of thought and experience.
Published on 2026-08-03 · About 4 minutes
Given a birth time, how is it converted into the year, month, day, and hour pillars (the eight characters of bazi)? What is the basis for each step? This article breaks down the process of charting, enabling you to verify the results yourself.
Published on 2026-08-03 · About 4 minutes
Paste in simplified text, and the system only flags high-risk words without automatically converting them to traditional characters. This is a deliberate design, not an incomplete feature. This article explains the reasons behind this, the specific operational process of the detection tool, and what it means when a term is marked as 'unverified'.
Published on 2026-08-03 · About 4 minutes