Yang Metal year pillar
Metal Tiger 庚寅
The Geng 庚 year stem carries Metal; the Tiger's Yin 寅 branch keeps its fixed Wood coordinate.
Year pillar庚寅Yang Metal Tiger
Pillar anatomy
One stem above one branch
Earthly branch
Yin branch · Yang Wood
- Solar coordinate
- Month 1, from Start of Spring
- Season · direction
- Spring · ENE
- Double-hour
- 03:00–05:00
This Na Yin is shared with the other pillar in its two-pillar cycle pair, 辛卯 Yin Metal Rabbit.
Exact date records
Metal Tiger years, 1901–2099
The complete 庚寅 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
1950
- Lunar-year boundary
- 17 February 1950 → 5 February 1951
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 1950 at 17:20
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2010
- Lunar-year boundary
- 14 February 2010 → 2 February 2011
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 4 February 2010 at 06:47
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Complete signature return
2070
- Lunar-year boundary
- 11 February 2070 → 30 January 2071
- Li Chun · Start of Spring
- 3 February 2070 at 20:21
- Leap month
- None · twelve lunar months
Metal Tiger with the current Yang Fire Horse year
Three Harmonies
Three Harmonies 三合
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 Tiger elements
Calendar and pillar conventions are recorded in the methodology.