1969: Year of the Earth Rooster
The 1969 Chinese zodiac year is the Yin Earth Rooster, and it runs from 17 February 1969 to 5 February 1970 — not from 1 January.
- Animal
- Rooster 鸡
- Element and polarity
- Yin Earth
- Gan-Zhi
- Ji You 己酉
- Age this zodiac year
- Born in 1969, a person turns 57 during the 2026 year
Born early in 1969? You may be Monkey, not Rooster
Chinese New Year 1969 fell on 17 February 1969. Anyone born between 1 January 1969 and 16 February 1969 — a window of 47 days — belongs to the 1968 zodiac year, the Yang Earth Monkey, and not to the Rooster.
Check an exact birth date against the 17 February 1969 boundary.
Exact 1969 zodiac year dates
The 1969 lunar year ran its ordinary twelve months, 354 days in total.
Other Rooster years around 1969
| Rooster year | Complete name | Begins |
|---|---|---|
| 1933 | Yin Water Rooster | 26 January 1933 |
| 1945 | Yin Wood Rooster | 13 February 1945 |
| 1957 | Yin Fire Rooster | 31 January 1957 |
| 1981 | Yin Metal Rooster | 5 February 1981 |
| 1993 | Yin Water Rooster | 23 January 1993 |
| 2005 | Yin Wood Rooster | 9 February 2005 |
The exact pairing 己酉 — Yin Earth Rooster — returns only once every sixty years: 1909, 2029, 2089.