Year of the Rat
Bing Zi 丙子 · Water rat · 26 December 1996, 20:00 local
Rat (鼠) — Resourceful, quick-witted and adaptable.
- Age
- 29 years 10,891 days lived · traditional age 31 · next birthday 2026-12-26 (as of 2026-10-21)
- Chinese zodiac
- Ratby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- 11th month, 16th 丙子年十一月十六 · lunar year 1996
- Moon phase
- Waning Gibbous亏凸月 · lunar day 16
- Five elements
- Water fate Water in the Ravine · missing wood
- Day master
- Fireelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Capricornthe Sun’s sign on that date
- Weekday & term
- ThursdayWinter Solstice
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 1996-12-26 20:00
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
Ding You
丁酉
Fire
Hour
Geng Xu
庚戌
Metal
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 0 · missing
- Fire 2
- Earth 1
- Metal 3
- Water 2
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