All over the web, you can find one or more ancient Chinese conception charts, which are purportedly based on an ancient Chinese chart found in a 700 year old Chinese tomb near Beijing. The original chart is supposedly kept in the Institute of Science in Beijing.
It is said that the chart can predict the gender of the child based on the month of conception and the mother’s age at the time of the conception. It is said to be accurate to 93 percent. Some are based on the mother’s calendar age, while others make an extra calculation and base the gender on the woman’s Chinese lunar age. Interestingly, the answers may be different depending on which calendar you use, so you need to decide whether or not you want to use the lunar age or the actual age.
The idea behind the chart is to determine whether or not you are having a boy or a girl. The basic chart has the age of the mother along one axis and the month of the year on the other axis. In the middle of the chart is a “M” for male and an “F” for female. The calculation based on lunar age, asks for the mother’s age at the time of the conception and asks for the actual date of conception and the time zone the conception occurred in. The mother’s lunar age is calculated and the rest is the same as the basic chart.
Such charts can, if you believe in them, tell you when to conceive if you want a boy or a girl. Simply plug in your age and figure out which month to conceive your baby in. If you are already pregnant, put in the age at the time of conception and the month you conceived in and you can determine whether you are having a boy or a girl. Again, the chart is said to be 93 percent accurate.
It is of special interest in Chinese culture, where there is a “one child only” policy. Women want to have a boy as a means of carrying on the family name. It appears the chart works because women in China have a boy: girl ratio of up to 130:100 in rural areas as opposed to a ratio of 104:107 in other countries who do not use the conception chart.
The conception chart can be used to select the gender of the children you have. For example, if you want a boy first and then a girl, use the chart to first select the proper month of conception for a boy based on your age and then select the proper month of conception for a girl the next time around. While the results are not a hundred percent accurate, they can perhaps give you a better than average chance of having the gender of child you’ve been hoping for.
Ancient Chinese conception charts can be found anywhere on the web and it is up to you to decide if you want to use a chart based on your Chinese lunar age or your actual age.
