Year of the Snake
Bing Chen 丙辰 · Earth snake · 4 February 1917, 12:00 local
Snake (蛇) — Wise, intuitive and deliberate.
- Age
- 109 years 40,071 days lived · traditional age 110 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Snakeby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 13th 丁巳年正月十三 · lunar year 1917
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 13
- Five elements
- Earth fate Earth in the Sand · missing wood, water
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- SundayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1917-02-04 12:00
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This date falls in the disputed window
It is after the Start of Spring but before the lunar new year, so the two conventions disagree: Snake by the solar-term rule used in divination, Loong by the festival rule. Printed tables usually show the second one.
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Bing Chen
丙辰
Fire · Loong
Month
Xin Chou
辛丑
Metal
Day
Ding Chou
丁丑
Fire
Hour
Bing Wu
丙午
Fire
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Earth fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Earth in the Sand” means in folk astrology. The colours and counts below come from the stem and branch of each pillar, which is the method used for a five-element reading.
- Wood 0 · missing
- Fire 4
- Earth 3
- Metal 1
- Water 0 · missing
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