犯太岁 checker. Pick a zodiac or enter a birth date, plus a target year, to see 值/冲/刑/破/害 Tai Sui ties. Birthdays between 立春 and Chinese New Year get both answers. Entertainment and cultural reference.
Tai Sui (犯太岁) Checker
How to use
Pick your zodiac
Choose your animal (Rat, Ox, Tiger… 12 in all) from the list. Not sure which you are? Enter your birth date instead.
Or enter your birth date
The tool places the date in its zodiac year with the site’s Chinese-calendar engine, counting the year from Chinese New Year (正月初一) — the lunar year the Hong Kong Observatory’s conversion tables and China’s calendar standard GB/T 33661-2017 use. Bazi counts the year from 立春 (around 4 February) instead, so if your birthday falls between the two, the tool shows both animals and both results. You only need a birth time if you were born on 立春 day.
Enter a target year
It starts at the current lunar year on the Singapore date, turning over at Chinese New Year rather than on 1 January. Any year from 1900 to 2100 works. You can also pick the 破 (break) table: the common modern one has six pairs, 《三命通會》 has four.
Read the Tai Sui relationship
You see every tie your animal has with that year (值/冲/刑/破/害 — zhi, clash, punishment, break, harm), when the year starts under each rule, and every sign this table lists for that year. No tie shows as "Not on this table’s list".
Offending Tai Sui: A Chinese Folk Belief
"Tai Sui" (太岁) began as a way of counting years. Jupiter, the "Year Star" (岁星), takes about 12 years to circle the sky, and early astronomers paired it with an invisible marker moving the opposite way — the 《史記·天官書》 has the 歲陰 moving left while the Year Star turns right. The marker was later personified as the Tai Sui god, and a cycle of sixty named Tai Sui generals grew up around it, one for each stem-branch year. To "offend Tai Sui" (犯太岁) means that your zodiac animal forms one of five Earthly-Branch ties with the year’s animal: 值 (same), 冲 (clash), 刑 (punishment), 破 (break) or 害 (harm). This tool looks that tie up in your browser. It is a folk-culture reference and predicts nothing.
The oldest Tai Sui taboo we found is about direction, not birth signs. Wang Chong’s 《論衡·難歲》 (1st century CE) quotes a house-moving rule under which moving toward Tai Sui or with it at your back were both unlucky — and he records it in order to argue against it. Almanacs still use 歲破 for the branch that clashes with the year, which is not the same thing as the 破太岁 pairing below.
The five Tai Sui relationships
值太岁 (zhi / benming year) is your birth-animal year: your animal IS the year’s animal. 冲太岁 (clash) is the animal six places away (Rat and Horse). 刑太岁 (punishment), 破太岁 (break) and 害太岁 (harm) follow branch pairings set out in fate-reading manuals — and the manuals do not agree in every detail. 《三命通會》 (vol. 3) counts four 破 pairs — 卯午, 丑辰, 子酉 and 未戌 — and says outright that it leaves out 寅亥 and 巳申, while most modern 犯太岁 lists count all six. The tool uses six by default and lets you switch. The same book gives 刑 a direction (in 2027, 未刑丑 and 戌刑未), which the result shows. On the default table a 午 (Horse) year has Rat clashing, Ox harming, Rabbit breaking, and the Horse both 值太岁 and a self-punishment.
What "settling Tai Sui" (安太岁) means
When folk custom holds that someone has "offended Tai Sui", the traditional response is to settle or pay respects to Tai Sui (安太岁 / 拜太岁): offering incense to that year’s Tai Sui general at a temple in the first lunar month, lighting a Tai Sui lamp, and returning at the end of the year to give thanks (谢太岁). Some people also carry a Tai Sui charm, wear red in their benming year, or stay away from other people’s weddings and funerals for the year. These are cultural customs, not a guarantee of any kind. Whether to take part is a personal choice; this tool neither encourages nor discourages it and simply describes the tradition.
How Singapore temples do it
Singapore temples date their Tai Sui services by the lunar calendar, and each publishes its own list. Thian Hock Keng’s 2026 Lunar New Year brochure set 拜太岁 from the 2nd to the 15th day of the first month (18 February to 3 March). 韮菜芭城隍庙 holds its New Year 拜太岁 from the 4th day to the end of the first month, with a 谢太岁 ceremony near the end of the year. The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple offers Tai Sui lamps and describes Tai Sui as a guardian rather than a malign spirit. Their lists do not always match this tool, or each other: of nine Singapore temple lists from 2017 to 2026 that we compared, three named the same animals as this table, and in 2024 two temples disagreed over the Goat and the Rabbit. Treat the output as one table among several. It is a branch-relationship lookup and gives no metaphysical, health, legal or financial advice.
A clash is always the animal six positions away
Tai Sui began as a way of counting years. Jupiter, the "Year Star", circles the sky in about 12 years, and the 《史記·天官書》 pairs it with an invisible marker, the 歲陰, that moves the opposite way.
Each of the 60 stem-branch years has a named Tai Sui general. The list published by 玉皇玉聖宮 in Tainan names Wen Zhe (文哲) for 丙午 2026 and Miao Bing (繆丙, also recorded as 伍炳) for 丁未 2027.
Offending Tai Sui has five types: 值 (same), 冲 (clash), 刑 (punishment), 破 (break), 害 (harm). 值太岁 is your "benming" birth-animal year; 冲太岁 is usually described as the most pronounced.
A "clash" (冲) is always the animal six positions away: Rat↔Horse, Ox↔Goat, Tiger↔Monkey, Rabbit↔Rooster, Dragon↔Dog, Snake↔Pig — six fixed pairs in total.
Punishment (刑) includes "self-punishment": the branches 辰 Dragon, 午 Horse, 酉 Rooster, 亥 Pig punish themselves — so a Dragon in a Dragon year is both 值太岁 and a self-punishment.
The zodiac year does not turn on 1 January. Checked day by day from 1901 to 2100, going by the Gregorian year alone gives the wrong animal on 9.5% of days — every one of them between 1 January and Chinese New Year.
The oldest Tai Sui taboo we found is about direction: Wang Chong’s 《論衡·難歲》 (1st century CE) quotes a rule that moving house toward Tai Sui, or with it at your back, is unlucky — and records it in order to argue against it.
Singapore temples schedule Tai Sui prayers by the lunar calendar: Thian Hock Keng set the 2nd to the 15th day of the first month for 2026, and 韮菜芭城隍庙 runs from the 4th day to the end of that month, with a thanksgiving (谢太岁) near year end.
The pairings are not the same in every source. 《三命通會》 (vol. 3) counts four 破 pairs and leaves out 寅亥 and 巳申 by name; most modern lists count six. This tool uses six by default and lets you switch.
Offending Tai Sui is folk belief, not science. There is no evidence that it predicts anything, and this tool predicts nothing — it looks up the traditional branch relationship for you, for cultural reference and entertainment.
Frequently Asked Questions
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It means your zodiac forms one of five Earthly-Branch ties — 值/冲/刑/破/害 — with the animal of that year. It is Chinese folk belief; this tool looks up the relationship from a table and predicts nothing.
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2027 is the Goat year (丁未). By the Chinese calendar it starts on 6 February 2027 (正月初一); by 立春 it starts at 09:46 on 4 February (UTC+8). This tool’s table lists four signs: Goat 值太岁; Ox clash plus punishment (未刑丑); Dog punishment (戌刑未) plus break; Rat harm. Switching to 《三命通會》’s four-pair 破 table changes nothing for 2027. Temples publish their own lists, which may differ.
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2026 is the Horse year (丙午); its lunar year began on 17 February 2026. On this tool’s default table: Horse = 值太岁 (benming) plus self-punishment; Rat = clash; Ox = harm; Rabbit = break.
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The zodiac year does not start on 1 January. Enter your birth date and the tool places you by Chinese New Year (正月初一) — someone born on 20 January 1991, for example, is a Horse, not a Goat. If your birthday falls between 立春 (around 4 February) and Chinese New Year, the two rules give different animals, and the tool shows both results.
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Both rules are in use. Chinese New Year (正月初一) starts the lunar year in the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables and in China’s calendar standard GB/T 33661-2017, and it is the year most people mean when they name their animal. 立春 starts the 干支 year used in bazi, and some 2027 guides use it. Rather than choose silently, the tool leads with Chinese New Year and adds the 立春 result whenever it gives a different animal.
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Folk opinion varies. Clash (冲) is commonly described as the most pronounced, then 值 (benming), with punishment/break/harm milder. But these are traditional sayings, not settled fact, and sources disagree. The tool lists every tie you form and endorses no "severity" ranking.
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Entirely your choice. Settling Tai Sui is a cultural custom (temple incense, charms, wearing red). It is not an obligation and guarantees nothing. The tool neither encourages nor discourages it — it only describes the tradition.
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No, and it won’t try. The tool only looks up the branch relationship between your zodiac and Tai Sui — a folk-culture cross-reference. It forecasts no fortune, rates no luck, and replaces no professional advice. Treat it as cultural entertainment.
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No. The tool’s table is fixed — the same input always gives the same result — but the sources differ: 《三命通會》 counts four 破 pairs where most modern lists count six, and temples publish their own yearly lists (the Thian Hock Keng lists we checked name no 害 at all). So the tool lets you choose the 破 table and says which one it used.
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Yes. "Target year" takes any year from 1900 to 2100. Birth dates run from 1 January 1901 to 31 December 2100 — the span over which the site’s calendar engine is checked, year by year, against the Hong Kong Observatory’s tables.
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No. The lookup runs in your browser, and what you enter is not sent to our server.
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No. Tai Sui looks only at your zodiac (year branch) versus the year’s animal — a relatively simple folk check. Bazi combines all four pillars (year/month/day/hour), five elements, and ten gods — far more complex. For a bazi chart, see Bazi Chart Calculator. Both are cultural reference only.
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