Year of the Pig
Geng Xu 庚戌 · Metal pig · 4 February 1971, 12:00 local
Pig (猪) — Generous, honest and fortunate.
- Age
- 55 years 20,348 days lived · traditional age 56 · next birthday 2027-02-04 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Pigby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 9th 辛亥年正月初九 · lunar year 1971
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 9
- Five elements
- Metal fate Gold of Hairpin and Bracelet · missing wood
- Day master
- Metalelement 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 1971-02-04 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: Pig by the solar-term rule used in divination, Dog 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
Geng Xu
庚戌
Metal · Dog
Month
Ji Chou
己丑
Earth
Day
Geng Shen
庚申
Metal
Hour
Ren Wu
壬午
Water
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Metal fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Gold of Hairpin and Bracelet” 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 3
- Metal 3
- Water 1
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