My first website

 When I first started learning about traditional calendars, I was honestly just trying to solve a simple problem: how do I quickly convert a date between the Gregorian calendar and the Chinese lunar calendar without flipping through complicated charts? That small frustration eventually led me to build my very first website — https://www.lunarconvert.com/. 

At the beginning, the idea was simple. I wanted a clean, straightforward tool where anyone could enter a date and instantly see the corresponding lunar or solar result. No distractions, no unnecessary steps — just clarity. But as I worked on it, I realized that date conversion is rarely just about numbers. People often want to know more. What’s the zodiac for that year? What’s the ganzhi cycle? Is there a traditional festival on that day? 

So I slowly expanded the features. Now on https://www.lunarconvert.com/, you can convert dates in both directions — Gregorian to lunar and lunar to Gregorian — browse full yearly calendars, check zodiac signs, and explore traditional festival dates. I also made sure it supports multiple languages, because I’ve noticed that interest in the Chinese lunar calendar goes far beyond Chinese-speaking users. 

Building this site taught me a lot. It wasn’t just about writing conversion algorithms; it was about thinking carefully through edge cases, leap months, and historical calendar differences. I wanted the results to be reliable and precise, especially for people using it for meaningful dates like birthdays, anniversaries, or cultural celebrations. 

What makes me happiest is knowing that something I built from scratch is now helping others. Sometimes I’ll open https://www.lunarconvert.com/ myself just to test it again or explore a random year, and it still feels a little surreal. It may have started as a small utility project, but for me, it represents the beginning of my journey as a builder on the web. 

If you’ve ever needed to translate a date across calendar systems — or you’re simply curious about how traditional timekeeping works — I hope the site makes that process just a bit easier and more intuitive.