{"title":"Find the Chinese zodiac animal for a birth date","fields":[{"key":"date","name":"date","kind":"date","required":true,"description":"Birth date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Only the date is needed: the zodiac animal is a property of the year, so no time, timezone or place changes the answer.","example":"1990-06-15"},{"key":"yearBoundary","name":"yearBoundary","kind":"tiles","required":false,"description":"Which instant starts the zodiac year. lunar-new-year is the folk rule and the default on this route, because it is the rule people mean when they say what animal they are: the sign turns on Chinese New Year, between late January and late February. li-chun is the classical rule every Four Pillars text uses, turning the year at the solar term Beginning of Spring around 4 February. The two agree for roughly eleven months of every year and disagree for the weeks between them, so a 14 February 2026 birth is a Snake under lunar-new-year and a Horse under li-chun. The BaZi routes default to li-chun instead, because a chart and a folk sign are answering different questions.","enum":["lunar-new-year","li-chun"],"default":"lunar-new-year","example":"lunar-new-year","fold":true}],"hasLang":true,"groups":[{}],"opensOnLoad":false}