Year of the Monkey
Bing Shen 丙申 · Fire monkey · 21 December 1956, 15:00 local
Monkey (猴) — Witty, curious and inventive.
- Age
- 69 years 25,506 days lived · traditional age 71 · next birthday 2026-12-21 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Monkeyby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 20th 丙申年十一月二十 · lunar year 1956
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 20
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire below the Mountain · missing wood
- Day master
- Waterelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Sagittariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- FridayMajor Snow
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1956-12-21 15:00
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
Geng Zi
庚子
Metal
Day
Ren Xu
壬戌
Water
Hour
Wu Shen
戊申
Earth
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 0 · missing
- Fire 1
- Earth 2
- Metal 3
- Water 2
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