1926 Chinese zodiac sign: Fire Tiger

Chinese year 1926 begins on Saturday, February 13, 1926, and ends on Tuesday, February 1, 1927, the day before the Year of the Fire Rabbit begins. It has 354 days, or 12 lunar months: each month starts on a new moon, so it is 29 or 30 days long. The next leap year, with a thirteenth month, comes in 1928.

The year opens with the new moon on Friday, February 12, 1926 at 12:20 p.m. ET. In Beijing it is already February 13, 1:06 a.m. Beijing local mean time, and the Beijing date sets New Year's Day, so the new year begins on February 13.

The Lantern Festival, which closes the New Year celebrations, comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, so on Saturday, February 27, 1926. The year's first full moon falls on Saturday, February 27, 1926 at 11:51 a.m. ET.

It is year 3 of the sixty-year cycle that began in 1924 with the Wood Rat. In Chinese this year is called 丙寅 (bǐngyín): the heavenly stem 丙 gives the element and the earthly branch 寅 the animal.

In Ba Zi astrology, the Four Pillars of Destiny, the year 1926 begins not at the lunar New Year but at the moment of lìchūn (立春, “start of spring”), when the Sun reaches 315° of ecliptic longitude: on Thursday, February 4, 1926 at 8:38 a.m. Eastern Time. That is 9 days before Chinese New Year, so anyone born between that moment and February 12 still has the Wood Ox sign in the lunar calendar but already the Fire Tiger sign in Ba Zi.

This page and the calculator give your sign by the lunar calendar.

The Tiger is the sign of courage and energy. It loves a challenge, has a strong sense of justice and stands up for the underdog, even when it costs it.

Passion, courage and a need for action. Fire adds temperament and charisma, along with a tendency to flare up.

The Fire element covers two years in a row, 1926 (yang) and 1927 (yin), and comes back every ten years: before that in 1916–1917, next in 1936–1937.

The Fire Tiger is a Tiger with a double dose of energy. It is bold, charismatic and unpredictable, and once it believes in something it carries others along. It has a strong need for independence and handles any form of control badly. But Fire has its price: impulsive decisions and outbursts that someone has to clean up afterward.

In 2026, people born in 1926 turn 100 years old. The Year of the Fire Horse is running now, which tradition counts as an ally's year from the same trine for the Tiger. People born in 1926 reach their next běnmìngnián, the year of their own sign, in 2034, when they turn 108 years old.

The Tiger comes back every 12 years, each time with a different element. The exact combination of 1926, the Fire Tiger, returns every 60 years: in 1866, 1926 and 1986.