Spring Festival
Glossary · Last updated: 2026-07-26
Spring Festival (春节) is the common name for Chinese Lunar New Year. It is a multi-day festival when families reunite and a new Sheng Xiao year begins.
For astrology apps, the key detail is calendar math. The animal switches at Lunar New Year eve or day, not January 1.
Example: see it on a birth date
The Spring Festival is Chinese Lunar New Year. It sets the year animal. August 1, 2021 is the Year of the Metal Ox.
A birthday before that year's festival still belongs to the previous animal. Check the festival date instead of assuming January 1.
Enter your own date on the Zodiac Sign Calculator.
Travel season
Chunyun (Spring Festival travel rush) is the world's largest yearly migration. Culturally, the date means far more than zodiac labels.
Related
Main reading and tools
These are the main reading and calculator pages. Use them for a daily note, a birth-sign tool, or a pair check.
- Today's Horoscope hubAll twelve Western sun-sign daily pages, plus links to the seven-tradition reader.
- Horoscope & Zodiac CompatibilityTwo birth dates for Western, Chinese, and Indian Vedic pairing, plus every sun-sign hub.
- Zodiac Sign CalculatorWestern sun sign from birth date, with element, modality, and ruler.
- Rising Sign CalculatorIndian Vedic Lagna estimate when you have birth date, time, and place.
- Moon Sign CalculatorIndian Vedic Janma Rashi and nakshatra when birth time and city are available.