Chinese Calendrics

Chinese Calendrics is an advanced software application that enables users to convert dates from the Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese solar and lunar calendars, and the Common Era and Julian calendars. It also helps users calculate the date of New Year's Day in the Asian lunar calendars, as well as ascertain the Western dates of the starts of all lunar months in a year in the lunar calendar.

The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a unique lunisolar calendar that consists of months corresponding exactly to lunar cycles, with years that stay in sync with seasonal years to a large extent. The structure of the calendar is dependent on certain astronomical events such as dark moons and winter solstices.

Furthermore, Chinese Calendrics is designed to determine leap months in the lunar calendar and find the Western dates corresponding to Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese anniversaries like birthdays. Additionally, it helps users move forward or backward from a given date by a period like a month, or by a particular number of days.

This robust software can calculate the phase of the Moon within a 6000-year period and search for the next or previous full moon, dark moon, lunar quarter, solar term, or solstice, or equinox of a particular kind. It can also search for a solstice or equinox in combination with a dark moon or a full moon.

Another remarkable feature is the ability to search for the next or previous day, month, or year with a specific element-animal correspondence. This means users can find days on which the element-animal is the same for day, month, and year. Finally, the software provides a visual display of an entire month in the Chinese lunar calendar showing images of the Moon for each day.