Yang Fire year pillar
Fire Monkey 丙申
The Bing 丙 year stem carries Fire; the Monkey's Shen 申 branch keeps its fixed Metal coordinate.
Year pillar丙申Yang Fire Monkey
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Shen branch · Yang Metal
- Solar coordinate
- Month 7, from Start of Autumn
- Season · direction
- Autumn · WSW
- Double-hour
- 15:00–17:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 丁酉 Yin Fire Rooster.
Exact date records
Fire Monkey years, 1901–2099
The complete 丙申 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
1956
- Lunar-year boundary
- 12 February 1956 → 30 January 1957
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1956 at 04:11
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2016
- Lunar-year boundary
- 8 February 2016 → 27 January 2017
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2016 at 17:46
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2076
- Lunar-year boundary
- 5 February 2076 → 23 January 2077
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2076 at 07:19
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Fire Monkey 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 Monkey elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.