Yin Metal year pillar
Metal Ox 辛丑
The Xin 辛 year stem carries Metal; the Ox's Chou 丑 branch keeps its fixed Earth coordinate.
Year pillar辛丑Yin Metal Ox
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Chou branch · Yin Earth
- Solar coordinate
- Month 12, from Minor Cold
- Season · direction
- Winter · NNE
- Double-hour
- 01:00–03:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 庚子 Yang Metal Rat.
Exact date records
Metal Ox years, 1901–2099
The complete 辛丑 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
1901
- Lunar-year boundary
- 19 February 1901 → 7 February 1902
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1901 at 19:39
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
1961
- Lunar-year boundary
- 15 February 1961 → 4 February 1962
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1961 at 09:22
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2021
- Lunar-year boundary
- 12 February 2021 → 31 January 2022
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2021 at 22:58
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2081
- Lunar-year boundary
- 9 February 2081 → 28 January 2082
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2081 at 12:25
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Metal Ox with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Harm
Harm 六害
Heavenly-stem combination
辛 with 丙 · 五合
Fire controls Metal
Metal year stem with the current Fire year stem.
Same branch, five stems
Compare all five Ox elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.