Year of the Monkey
Bing Shen 丙申 · Fire monkey · 22 August 1956, 05:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 70 years 25,627 days lived · traditional age 71 · next birthday 2027-08-22 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 7th month, 17th 丙申年七月十七 · lunar year 1956
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 17
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire below the Mountain · missing earth, water
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Leothe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- WednesdayStart of Autumn
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1956-08-22 05:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Bing Shen
丙申
Fire · Monkey
Month
Bing Shen
丙申
Fire
Day
Xin You
辛酉
Metal
Hour
Xin Mao
辛卯
Metal
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 below the Mountain” 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 1
- Fire 2
- Earth 0 · missing
- Metal 5
- Water 0 · missing
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