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Understanding The Chinese Birth Calendar
Every culture likes to boast some symbolic reference having to do with the stars, births, deaths, dates, times and other significant facts pertaining to certain events. People use the Chinese birth calendar to decide which gender your child will be, male or female. In China, there was once a great need for this way to control this aspect of conception because it was customary for boys to be favored over girls. All parents wished for a baby boy and would get rid of baby girls to work to have one.
Due to the growing number of people in China, a law was passed that no couple was to have more than one child. Most parents wished for a boy because it was believed that women were of lesser value and that a strong young man will bring a bright, lucrative future. Many parents had their second child or their daughters taken from them and killed. This practice left a huge gender gap for the nation.
It was because of this practice that many parents began a search for a way to find out what they would have, if there was a way to predict it so they could have a boy without having to go through the pain and agony of having a girl instead. The first step to this method is determining the age of the mother. This would be her age nine months prior to her birth. She would count back from the month of her birth nine months and this would be her conception month.
By cross-referencing the age of the mother with the month that the child was conceived, the parents will get a 97% accurate prediction of what gender their child will be. By using the same method and choosing a month to conceive, a couple is able to decide what gender they wish their future child to be.
It is really not a very difficult process. It can be done using a standard calendar because it is a concept spawned from the Chinese lunar calendar. Both have the same months.
Where some people would prefer not to know what they are going to have, knowing whether it is a boy or a girl is extremely important to some people. They want to know whether they will need sailor suits or tiny pink buttons and hair ribbons.
Many parents choose to use the Chinese birth calendar as a means of determining their childs gender ahead of time. Many generations have passed down this knowledge to future generations worldwide.