Year of the Rooster
Bing Shen 丙申 · Fire rooster · 3 February 2017, 03:00 local
Rooster (鸡) — Punctual, honest and meticulous.
- Age
- 9 years 3,546 days lived · traditional age 10 · next birthday 2027-02-03 (as of 2026-10-20)
- Chinese zodiac
- Roosterby the Start of Spring rule
- Lunar date
- Zhengyue (1st month), 7th 丁酉年正月初七 · lunar year 2017
- Moon phase
- Waxing Crescent蛾眉月 · lunar day 7
- Five elements
- Fire fate Fire below the Mountain · missing water
- Day master
- Metalelement of the day stem
- Constellation
- Aquariusfrom the Sun’s position at the solar terms
- Weekday & term
- FridayStart of Spring
- Time zone used
- UTC+8Asia/Shanghai · China time 2017-02-03 03:00
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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: Rooster by the solar-term rule used in divination, Monkey 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
Bing Shen
丙申
Fire · Monkey
Month
Xin Chou
辛丑
Metal
Day
Xin You
辛酉
Metal
Hour
Geng Yin
庚寅
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 1
- Earth 1
- Metal 5
- Water 0 · missing
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