Year of the Rat
Bing Zi 丙子 · Water rat · 19 December 1996, 11:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 29 years 10,898 days lived · traditional age 31 · next birthday 2026-12-19 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 9th 丙子年十一月初九 · lunar year 1996
- Moon phase
- Waxing Gibbous盈凸月 · lunar day 9
- Five elements
- Water fate Water in the Ravine · missing earth
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Sagittariusthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayMajor Snow
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1996-12-19 11:00
Four pillars
The hour you choose only changes the last pillar; the other three stay fixed for this date.
Year
Bing Zi
丙子
Fire · Rat
Month
Geng Zi
庚子
Metal
Day
Geng Yin
庚寅
Metal
Hour
Ren Wu
壬午
Water
Element balance of the eight characters
Two different “elements” are quoted for a birth year. The Water fate above is the traditional nayin (纳音) of the year pillar, which is what “Water in the Ravine” 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 2
- Water 3
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