Yang Fire year pillar
Fire Dragon 丙辰
The Bing 丙 year stem carries Fire; the Dragon's Chen 辰 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar丙辰Yang Fire Dragon
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Chen branch · Yang Earth
- Solar coordinate
- Month 3, from Pure Brightness
- Season · direction
- Spring · ESE
- Double-hour
- 07:00–09:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 丁巳 Yin Fire Snake.
Exact date records
Fire Dragon years, 1901–2099
The complete 丙辰 pillar returns every sixty years. Each record below keeps the same animal, stem element, and polarity, while its exact lunar-year boundary and leap-month pattern change.
Complete signature return
1916
- Lunar-year boundary
- 3 February 1916 → 22 January 1917
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1916 at 11:13
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1976
- Lunar-year boundary
- 31 January 1976 → 17 February 1977
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1976 at 00:39
- Leap month
- Month 8
Complete signature return
2036
- Lunar-year boundary
- 28 January 2036 → 14 February 2037
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2036 at 14:19
- Leap month
- Month 6
Complete signature return
2096
- Lunar-year boundary
- 25 January 2096 → 11 February 2097
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2096 at 03:46
- Leap month
- Month 4
Fire Dragon with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
Same heavenly stem
丙 with 丙 · 丙
Fire meets Fire
Fire year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Dragon elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.