Start of Spring 立春

What it marks

The astronomical start of spring, and the point at which the almanac's year genuinely turns. Not Chinese New Year — that moves with the moon, while this is fixed to the sun. A BaZi chart's year pillar changes here, which is why two people born days apart in late January or early February can belong to different zodiac years.

Traditionally favours

• beginning things
• planting
• opening a business
• signing agreements

If you are choosing a date to start something and want the new year's energy behind it, this is the boundary that actually counts.

These are the tradition’s tendencies, not guarantees — and a solar term describes a stretch of weeks, so for a specific day check today’s almanac, which reads the day’s own 宜 and 忌.