2022, the Year of the Tiger, would be a year of transition.

Feb. 4, the day known as 立春 “spring comes” on the lunar calendar, 2022 will be clouded by an aura of “murder in the air” proclaimed Warwick Wong, a Hong Kong geomancer specialist of 通勝 ㄊㄨㄥㄕㄥˋ, Tung Shing, that is a 占卜 Chinese divination guide and almanack. It consists primarily of a calendar based on the Chinese lunar year and originated from 黃曆  (huánglì/Wong Lik, the "Yellow Calendar").

“We are leaving a 20-year period marked by speculation and volatility in fields like agriculture and real estate and entering a 20-year cycle where energy is poised to be the big thing,”.

But it was not clear what the problems would be or where the dangers lurked, only that they would come faster. “The cycles that we’re used to overbroad periods of time are going to be very tight and very quick.” 

2022 Chinese New Year: Black-Water Tiger

The 2022 Chinese New Year Day is on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, in China's time zone. This day is the new moon day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system. The exact new moon time is at 13:46 on 2022-02-01, in the China time zone.

2022是「壬寅」年。壬寅來自「干支」曆法，被應用於八字命理。天干的「壬」是屬水，地支的「寅」是生肖的虎。所以，2022可稱為「水虎」年。五行「金，水，木，火，土」的水是屬黑色，故2022也可叫「黑虎」年。

中國算命，來自易經八卦。是整合「象數理」的推演系統。依據天垂象，配合天道循環定數，來解釋演化可能的結果。因為，陰中帶陽，陽中帶陰；因此，命理所斷凶吉，不用太在意。凶中有吉，吉中有凶。歹運必有轉機，泰運隱藏否卦。無論凶吉，人需面對。所以，算命結果，不用重視。我們要注意的是「天垂象」。火山口冒煙了，要準備跑了。海水快速退縮，要拔腿逃命。要趨吉避凶，要先觀察環境變化，才能隨機應變。

Chinese New Year Days

Chinese New Year Dates in the China Time Zone
Year	Zodiac Animal Sign	New Year
2022	Black Water Tiger	Tuesday, February 1, 2022
2023	Black Water Rabbit	Sunday, January 22, 2023
2024	Green-Wood Dragon	Saturday, February 10, 2024

The new moon time determines the new moon date. The new moon time is at 13:46 on Tuesday, February 1, 2022, in the China time zone. Therefore, Chinese New Year Day is Tuesday, February 1, 2022. The new moon time is at 15:01 on Monday, January 31, 2022, in the US Pacific time zone. Therefore, the 2022 Chinese New Year Day is on Monday, January 31, 2022, in the Pacific Time zone.

Animal for Chinese New Year 2022

Chinese New Year 2022 animal sign is the Black Tiger. Chinese calendar combines solar, lunar, and 60 Stem-Branch counting systems. The 60 Stem-Branch calendar uses the names of 陰陽 Five Elements (Metal, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth) and 12 animals to rank the sequences. Five elements are connected to five colours ― White, Black, Green, Red, and Brown. So Chinese use the colour animal name to count the year. The name for 2022 is "Yang-Water Tiger". Black is connected to Water. Therefore, 2022 is also called the Black Water Tiger Year.

The first day of the Black Tiger year does not occur on the Chinese New Year Day in the Chinese Astrology. The first day of Tiger month is the first day of the Chinese Astrology year. This day is called 立春 the Start of Spring, which is the date when the sun enters the 315th degree on the tropical zodiac. This day is around February 4, each year. 2022 Chinese Black Tiger starts on February 4, 2022, in China's time zone. That means the Chinese Lunar New Year is not the first day of Black Tiger Year. If a baby is born before February 4, 2022, then the baby's zodiac sign is the OX, not the Tiger.