Chinese New Year 2014

Chinese New Year 2014 is on January 31, 2014, beginning the Year of the Wood Horse (甲午, Jia Wu), which lasts until February 18, 2015. Until then it is still the Year of the Water Snake. In BaZi, which counts years from the solar term Start of Spring (Li Chun), the 2014 year begins on February 4, 2014 at 6:03 AM Beijing time (22:03 UTC on February 3). This lunar year has 13 months, including a leap ninth month.

2014 is mostly the Year of the Wood Horse (甲午), from January 31, 2014. Dates before then belong to the Year of the Water Snake.

In the Year of the Wood Horse, the signs traditionally said to be in conflict with Tai Sui, the year's ruling deity, are Horse (birth year and punishment), Rat (clash), Ox (harm) and Rabbit (break).

Yes. The lunar year beginning in 2014 has 13 months, including a leap ninth month.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, falls on September 8, 2014.

Dates are computed astronomically, following the rules of the modern Chinese calendar (GB/T 33661-2017): days in China Standard Time (UTC+8), months starting on the day of the new moon, the winter solstice always in the eleventh month, and leap months placed in the first month without a principal solar term. Solar terms are the moments the Sun reaches each 15 degree point of its path, computed with the Astronomy Engine library. Years before 1929 used Beijing local time, so a handful of historical dates can differ by one day from older almanacs.