Year of the Monkey
Bing Shen 丙申 · Fire monkey · 25 October 1956, 10:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 69 years 25,563 days lived · traditional age 71 · next birthday 2026-10-25 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 9th month, 22nd 丙申年九月廿二 · lunar year 1956
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 22
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire below the Mountain · missing water
- Day master
- Woodelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Scorpiothe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayFrost Descent
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1956-10-25 10:00
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
Wu Xu
戊戌
Earth
Day
Yi Chou
乙丑
Wood
Hour
Xin Si
辛巳
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 3
- Metal 2
- Water 0 · missing
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