Complete signature return
1940
- Lunar-year boundary
- 8 February 1940 → 26 January 1941
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1940 at 07:07
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Dragon (1940, 2000, 2060)
Metal Dragon years are 1940, 2000, 2060 within 1901–2099. 庚辰 is pillar 17 of the 60-year cycle: Yang Metal is its year-stem element, while the Dragon branch remains Earth.
Metal Dragon personality
The Metal Dragon combines a broad vision with firm standards, concentrating its force on a result that has a recognisable shape. Decisiveness is strengthened by Metal's symbolism of definition and resolve. The challenge is not allowing a preferred ideal to become the only acceptable outcome, especially when a less dramatic revision would make the idea more workable for everyone involved.
Born in 1940, 2000, 2060? Check the opening date below before choosing this variant.
庚辰: pillar anatomy
- Animal branch
- 辰 Chen · Yang Earth
- Year stem and fixed branch
- Earth generates Metal
- Solar month 3
- Pure Brightness · Spring
- Branch compass and double-hour
- ESE · 07:00–09:00
In the Five Phases cycle, Earth feeds Metal.
Na Yin pair: 白蜡金
Metal Na Yin · paired with 辛巳 Yin Metal Snake in the 30 Na Yin pairs.
Exact date records
Metal Dragon years, 1901–2099
The complete 庚辰 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
2000
- Lunar-year boundary
- 5 February 2000 → 23 January 2001
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2000 at 20:40
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2060
- Lunar-year boundary
- 2 February 2060 → 20 January 2061
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2060 at 10:08
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Metal Dragon with the current Yang Fire Horse year
No named branch relation
No named branch relation
No named stem relation
庚 with 丙
Fire controls Metal
Metal 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.