Year of the Tiger
Yi Chou 乙丑 · Fire tiger · 4 February 1926, 18:00 local
Tiger (虎) — Brave, competitive and a natural leader.
- Age
- 100 years 36,784 days lived · traditional age 102 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Tigerby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 12th month, 22nd 乙丑年十二月廿二 · lunar year 1925
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 22
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire from the Furnace · missing fire
- Day master
- Woodelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1926-02-04 18:00
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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: Tiger by the solar-term rule used in divination, Ox 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
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood · Ox
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Jia Zi
甲子
Wood
Hour
Gui You
癸酉
Water
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Fire fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Fire from the Furnace” 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 2
- Fire 0 · missing
- Earth 3
- Metal 1
- Water 2
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