Editorial and corrections policy

People use these pages to find their sign, plan a celebration or answer a child's question. A wrong new year date gives a wrong sign, so every date comes from an official table, with the day we read it.

Who is responsible

Radif Partners, reachable at contact@chinesezodiacbyyear.com.

What we read

• the Gregorian-Lunar Calendar Conversion Tables of the Hong Kong Observatory, one per year from 1901 to 2100;
• the Observatory's pages on the agricultural calendar, the solar terms, the stems and branches and the animal cycle;
• pages of public bodies for the few other facts cited: gazetted holidays, statistics, postal stamps.

Facts and traditions

A date, a name in the cycle or a statistic is a fact and carries its source. A trait, a pairing or a custom is tradition, and every page says so in plain words. We never present a tradition as a prediction, and we do not write horoscopes.

Sources we refuse

Astrology sites, forums and fortune-telling apps never supply a date or a fact here, even when they are right. When a figure is not yet published, such as next year's holiday schedule in mainland China, the page says so.

Review cycle

The tables run to 2100 and change only if the Observatory corrects them; we re-read them each year before the new year, along with the holiday and stamp pages.

Corrections

1. We open the Observatory's table again.
2. We correct the data or the text, update its reading date, and add a test when the engine is involved.
3. The site rebuilds and every page shows the new date.

Independence

No public body, astrologer, temple or shop pays for or reviews what is published here. See also the method page. Version of November 1, 2026.