Yang Fire year pillar
Fire Rat 丙子
The Bing 丙 year stem carries Fire; the Rat's Zi 子 branch keeps its fixed Water coordinate.
Year pillar丙子Yang Fire Rat
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Zi branch · Yang Water
- Solar coordinate
- Month 11, from Major Snow
- Season · direction
- Winter · N
- Double-hour
- 23:00–01:00
Hidden stems inside the Zi branch
- 癸guǐWaterprimary
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 丁丑 Yin Fire Ox.
Exact date records
Fire Rat years, 1901–2099
The complete 丙子 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
1936
- Lunar-year boundary
- 24 January 1936 → 10 February 1937
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 5 February 1936 at 07:29
- Leap month
- Month 3
Complete signature return
1996
- Lunar-year boundary
- 19 February 1996 → 6 February 1997
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1996 at 21:07
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2056
- Lunar-year boundary
- 15 February 2056 → 3 February 2057
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2056 at 10:47
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Fire Rat with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Clash
Clash 六冲
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 Rat elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.