Why two calculators give you different birth charts
The same birth details can produce different charts because the tradition has argued for centuries about when a day begi...
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What happens to Chinese punctuation when text runs vertically
Turning Chinese sideways does not turn its punctuation sideways. Quotation marks become different characters entirely, t...
There is no single order to learn Chinese characters
There are at least four orderings, built for different jobs, and they disagree about the first hundred characters more t...
The Chinese characters a bank computer cannot store
A rare character in a legal name fails in four different ways that look identical from the counter. One of them does not...
Why Tet and Chinese New Year sometimes fall a month apart
In 1985 Vietnam celebrated on 21 January and China on 20 February. The explanation everyone gives for the usual one-day...
The h in Cantonese Yale is not a sound
At the start of a syllable the h is the consonant you expect. At the end it is silent — it marks the tone. Beginners pro...
The pattern behind the order of the 64 hexagrams
The I Ching's numbered sequence has a strict rule running through it that almost no introduction mentions — and you can...
Why your Singapore birth certificate time is an hour off the sun
The clock here runs about 65 minutes ahead of the sun, and it ran half an hour closer before 1982. If you are entering a...
Is 2027 a year without spring?
It is — the lunar year from 6 February 2027 contains no 立春, and you can check it against a government table in ninety...
Why most lunar calendar apps get 2033 wrong
There is one year in the next century where lunar calendar apps disagree with each other. Ask yours where the leap month...
Mid-Autumn is two days before the full moon this year
The festival lands on 25 September and the moon reaches full on the 27th. The gap is larger than usual, it is one day ra...
What Links the 36 Stratagems to the Art of War's 13 Chapters
The two are separate books a thousand years apart, so a stratagem filed under a chapter is a reading aid, not a lineage....
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