Birth year lookup

1956: what element and Vietnamese zodiac sign?

People born in 1956 have the element Fire (nạp âm Sơn Hạ Hỏa (Fire at the Foot of the Hill)) and are Bính Thân, Year of the Monkey. The Bính Thân year runs from Tết on 12 February 1956 to 30 January 1957. Born from 1 January 1956 to 11 February 1956? That is Ất Mùi, not Bính Thân.

What if you were born in January or February 1956?

The sign follows the lunar year, which turns at Tết, not on 1 January. Anyone born from 1 January 1956 to 11 February 1956 still belongs to the Ất Mùi year (1955); anyone born from 1 January 1957 to 30 January 1957 still belongs to Bính Thân. Convert a birth date to the lunar calendar.

How old is someone born in 1956 in 2026?

Someone born in the solar year 1956 turns 70 on their birthday in 2026. The East Asian (tuổi mụ) age of Bính Thân in 2026 is 71: it counts one year at birth and adds one at every Tết.

What is the Kua of someone born in 1956?

Under the Eight Mansions (Bát Trạch) school, a man born in Bính Thân has the Kua Cấn (Gen), West group; a woman Đoài (Dui), West group. The Kua is worked out from the lunar year and sex, and is used to choose a house facing. See the eight directions for a Kua.

Which colours, directions and trades go with 1956 in folk belief?

In the Five Elements convention common in Vietnam, Sơn Hạ Hỏa (Fire at the Foot of the Hill) belongs to Fire, so it is said to suit red, orange, purple, and the colours of Wood, the element that generates Fire: green, verdant green. The directions of Fire are South; trades usually assigned to it are electricity and energy, restaurants and food service, cosmetics and beauty, advertising and lighting. This is convention, not calculation: the books differ on colours and trades, and no study has shown that choosing by element changes outcomes. A house facing under Bát Trạch is worked out from the Kua above, not from the element. Kua and directions by birth year.

Which signs match Bính Thân 1956, and which to avoid?

In the Vietnamese folk table, Thân is in Three Harmony with Tý, Thìn and Six Harmony with Tỵ; it clashes with Dần and is harmed by Hợi. Tỵ is both Six Harmony and Four Clash with Thân: the two tables are separate conventions and contradict each other on this pair. No general rule says which one prevails, so this page does not pick a side.

The Three Harmonies, Six Combinations, Four Clashes and Six Harms table is a common folk convention, not the only reckoning. The Four Clashes in groups of four is a Vietnamese folk way of matching ages; the old texts call only the six opposite pairs a clash. Some schools also weigh the Heavenly Stems and the Na Yin element before calling a pair harmonious or clashing.