2012 Chinese Lunar New Year - The Year of
Black Dragon
2011 Chinese
Astrology - The Year of White Rabbit
Chinese New Year Questions and Answers
2012 Chinese Lunar New Year - The Year of
Black Dragon
2011 Chinese
Astrology - The Year of White Rabbit
Chinese New Year Questions and Answers
The
first day of the 2011 Chinese New Year is on February 3, 2011
in China's time zone. This day is a new moon day, and is the first day of
the
first Chinese lunar month
in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system. The exact new moon time is at 10:31 on
03-Feb-11 in China time zone.
If we apply Chinese lunar calendar system on the USA time zones, we find something interesting here. In the US Eastern Standard Time (EST), the new moon time is at 21:31 of 02-Feb-11. In the US Pacific Standard Time (PST), the new moon time is at 18:31 of 02-Feb-11. Therefore, the Chinese New Year Day for USA time zones is on February 02, 2011.
The new moon time is at 02:31 on 03-Feb-11 of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and at 03:31 on 03-Feb-11 of Time Zone GMT+1. That means that the Chinese New Year day is on February 03, 2011 for European countries.
The Year 2011 is the 4708th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4708th year on February 3rd, 2011. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Metal White Rabbit is the 28th Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since (60 *78) + 28 = 4708, therefore 2011 is the Metal Rabbit year, which is the 4708th Chinese Year.
Some web sites say the year 2011 is the 4709th Chinese year. If you cannot find the explanation, here is a possible answer for you: The Yellow King's inauguration was held in the spring of 2697 B.C. But the day that was used as the first day of the year was the winter solstice, which was around December 23rd, 2698 B.C. Today's January 1st meant nothing to the Yellow King. If we count that extra eight days in 2698 B.C., then year 2011 is the 4709th Chinese year.
2011 is the year of Rabbit. Some people say 2011 is a Golden Rabbit,
White Rabbit, Metal Rabbit year. This is because the Stem-Branch
Calendar is connected to Five Element theory. Chinese calendar used the
Stem-Branch system to count the days, months and years. There are 10 Stems
and 12 Branches in this system. Stems are named by the Yin-Yang and Five
Elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth). The Stem sequence order is
Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, Yang Earth, Yin Earth, Yang Metal, Yin
Metal, Yang Water and Yin Water. Branches use the animal names.
The Branch sequence order is
Rat, Cow, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Chicken, Dog and
Pig. Stem and Branch are used together to form a cycle of 60 counting systems
which begin with 
Wooden
Rat and end with
Water
Pig. You can see the entire sequence from the
Chinese
New Year's page. From 1924 to 1983 is a complete cycle. Year 2011 is Male
Metal Rabbit 
the
28th of the Stem-Branch in the system. Because
Metal is connected to Gold and is equivalent to the
color White in the
Five-Element system, Year 2011 is also called the
White Rabbit or
Golden Rabbit year.
In China's time zone, the first day of the Metal Rabbit Year is February 4, 2011, because February 4th, 2011 is the first day of Tiger month and the Tiger month is the first month of the year in Chinese Fortune-Telling Calendar system.
In the Chinese Fortune-Telling calendar, the first day of the first month, Tiger month, is called "Start of Spring", which is when the sun enters the 315th degree on the tropical zodiac. In the China's time zone, the time of the Start of Spring is at Feb-04 12:34. So the first day of the White Rabbit year 2011 is on 04-Feb-11.
The time of the Start of Spring is on Feb-03 at 23:34 for US EST zone and on Feb-03 at 20:34 for US PST zone. So the first day of White Rabbit Year in USA is on 03-Feb-2011.
The Chinese New Year Day is very close to the first day of the astrology calendar in 2011. Sometimes both dates are more than 10 day apart. In that cases, babies born in February 2011 may be confused about their Chinese astrology birth year animal signs. This is because it is a common misconception that the astrology animal signs begin on the Chinese New Year day. Actually, Astrology animal signs are base on the Start of Spring, the first day of astrology year. For example, if a baby was born on the Chinese New Year Day in 2011, then its animal sign is the Tiger, not Rabbit because the birthday is before the Start of Spring. If you are still confused about your animal sign, we have an Animal Sign page for people to verify their Chinese birth year animal signs.
2011 Chinese Horoscope Forecast
To forecast our luck in the coming years, we first have to know what elements
and animals are in our Birth Chart from Find Your Lucky
Element page. 2011 is the year of
Male Metal Rabbit. Rabbit contains Wood. If your Lucky Element is
Wood, then you will gain some degree of good luck in 2011.
The complete Chinese Five Element Astrology is at Chinese Astrology 2011 for The Year of White Rabbit.
Rabbit is very friendly and attractive animal.
Rabbit has good relations with
other animals. When the other animals have an attraction with Rabbit, they all fall in
love with Rabbit wholeheartedly. They will give way to Rabbit all the time.
Rabbit contains pure Wood.
Rabbit and Tiger together form a strong force of dry Wood. Rabbit and
Dragon together form another strong wet Wood. Rabbit and Pig together make Wood
stronger. It's the same with Rabbit and Sheep; together they can make Wood stronger too.
Rabbit and Dog together form a strong force of Fire. This is the love relationship. That implies that people born in year of Dog will have good people social relationship, good romantic time or good marriage life. Rabbit and Chicken together will have fighting relationship. Therefore people born in the Chicken year might have something unhappy happening in 2011.
If Chinese Five Element Astrology is too complicated for you, then try the animal sign Chinese Horoscope at 2011 Chinese Horoscopes using 12 Chinese Zodiac Signs by birth Year
How to Pinpoint to the Lucky Days
People are always interested in knowing which days their luck will come. To determine the coming of good luck, we need to study the Stems and Branches relationships among Daily, Monthly, Yearly, Current Major Cycles and the Birth Chart.
There is an easy and simple way to find your really lucky day. First, the current Year must mainly contain your Lucky Element. Next, you look for the Month mainly contains your Lucky Element in the Stem and Branch systems. Then look for days that will contain mainly your Lucky Element. The theory is that Year brings Lucky Element into the Month; Month gathers the energy of Lucky Element and Day triggers the luck out. To find the Five Elements on certain month or date in from the following links. The easy way is from Chinese Fortune Angel astrology software.
Find Monthly Five Elements
Find Daily Five Elements
List Five Elements for next 15 days
What Will Happen To You? Any Money Luck?
It requires many steps to foresee your fortune from our web site. To make it
easy for you, we have created a
Free Daily Chinese Astrology for you. When 2011 comes, then you can see
the Chinese Astrology prediction for your daily, monthly and yearly cycles.
Our Chinese Astrology focuses on your Money, Career and
Fame.
You are welcome to visit our site daily. We recommend that you come to check your fortune every month.
If you are interested in Chinese astrology and your daily luck, try our
Free Daily Chinese Astrology.
If you are serious about Chinese astrology, then try your
Year 2011
Chinese Astrology and
Major
Cycles Astrology.
If you are interested in your love relationship and marriage luck in 2011,
the try
Angel love
Match reports.
Feng Shui 2011
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The most unlucky direction is Yellow 5 at East. Do not have any
remodeling in the direction of East in your house. The western direction is
unlucky, because of the conflict with Rabbit. The best direction is north.
Northwest is next choice. Find the special relationships
between year 2011 and the houses is from
Feng Shui Flying Stars page. There is more detailed
information in the |
2011 Chinese Astrology - Year of Rabbit
2011 Chinese Horoscopes By 12 Chinese Zodiac Signs
