Chinese zodiac animal, element, yin/yang and Chinese New Year date for a year or...

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{ "example": { "animal": "Rabbit", "asOf": "2026-10-11T08:54:32.329Z", "branch": "Mao", "chineseNewYear": "2023-01-22", "chineseNewYearWeekday": "Sunday", "degraded": false, "disclaimer": "Screening signal computed from the named public source. Not financial, legal or investment advice; provided as is. Verify at the source before acting.", "element": "Water", "nextChineseNewYear": "2024-02-10", "notChecked": [ "birth hour (the 12 two-hour double-hours) and the four-pillars chart", "the Li Chun (about 4 February) convention used by some astrologers: this uses Chinese New Year as the boundary", "…2 more" ], "polarity": "Yin", "reasons": [ "The date is before that Gregorian year's Chinese New Year, so it belongs to the previous zodiac year.", "Animal = year mod 12 (4 CE was a Rat year); element and polarity come from the heavenly stem = year mod 10." ], "sexagenary": "Gui-Mao", "sexagenaryCycleYear": 40, "source": "Sexagenary cycle arithmetic; Chinese New Year table 1901-2100 from the Hong Kong Observatory conversion table", "stem": "Gui", "summary": "2024-01-15 falls in the year of the Water Rabbit (Gui-Mao); it began on Chinese New Year, 2023-01-22.", "tableCoverage": "Chinese New Year 1901 to 2100", "usedDate": true, "verdict": "COMPUTED", "zodiacYear": 2023 }, "type": "json" }