Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Dragon 庚辰
The Geng 庚 year stem carries Metal; the Dragon's Chen 辰 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar庚辰Yang Metal 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, 辛巳 Yin Metal Snake.
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
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
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
Heavenly-stem clash
庚 with 丙 · 天干相冲
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.