We determine a person's Chinese Astrological Animal by birth year based on the Chinese New Year's Day. You cannot determine your Chinese Astrological Animal by birth year only. The common astrology birth chart doesn't use the Chinese New Year's day to calculate the birth chart.

In celebrations of food around the New Year, many dishes and ingredients sound like Good Luck words and phrases, and foods become symbolic in eating and offering. Food offerings are a prayer to ancestors or the Jade Emperor and The Kitchen God.