- The twelve zodiac animals
- Ganzhi: how the 60-part stem-and-branch cycle works
- The sixty stem-branch combinations
- When does the Chinese zodiac year start?
- Wuxing: the five phases
- Nayin and the thirty paired classifications
- Nine-star systems in calendars
- The twenty-eight lunar mansions
- Bazi basics: reading the eight characters
- One’s own zodiac year: Benmingnian