1927 Chinese zodiac sign: Fire Rabbit

Chinese year 1927 begins on Wednesday, February 2, 1927, and ends on Sunday, January 22, 1928, the day before the Year of the Earth Dragon begins. It has 355 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 Wednesday, February 2, 1927 at 3:54 a.m. ET, which is 4:40 p.m. Beijing local mean time, so the date is the same in New York and in Beijing.

The Lantern Festival, which closes the New Year celebrations, comes on the fifteenth day of the first month, so on Wednesday, February 16, 1927. The year's first full moon falls on Wednesday, February 16, 1927 at 11:18 a.m. ET.

It is year 4 of the sixty-year cycle that began in 1924 with the Wood Rat. In Chinese this year is called 丁卯 (dīngmǎo): the heavenly stem 丁 gives the element and the earthly branch 卯 the animal.

In Ba Zi astrology, the Four Pillars of Destiny, the year 1927 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 Friday, February 4, 1927 at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time. That is 2 days after Chinese New Year, so anyone born between February 2 and that moment already has the Fire Rabbit sign in the lunar calendar but still the Fire Tiger sign in Ba Zi.

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

The Rabbit is the sign of gentleness and finesse. It has good taste, tact and a gift for smoothing over disputes, so it feels best wherever there is harmony.

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 Rabbit has more courage than this sign is usually credited with. Fire gives it charisma, warmth and expressiveness, so it speaks up about what it wants and is more willing to take the lead. In company it is witty and well liked. Its emotions sit closer to the surface, though, and it takes hurts harder than other Rabbits.

In 2026, people born in 1927 turn 99 years old. The Year of the Fire Horse is running now, which tradition counts as a year with no special tie for the Rabbit. People born in 1927 reach their next běnmìngnián, the year of their own sign, in 2035, when they turn 108 years old.

The Rabbit comes back every 12 years, each time with a different element. The exact combination of 1927, the Fire Rabbit, returns every 60 years: in 1867, 1927 and 1987.