1935 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Wood Pig

1935 is the year of the Wood Pig (乙亥 Yǐhài), from 4 February 1935 to 23 January 1936. Anyone born in 1935 before 4 February 1935 belongs to the Wood Dog year.

• Animal: Pig
• Element: Wood (Yin)
• Cycle name: 乙亥 Yǐhài, year 12 of the 60-year cycle
• Starts: 4 February 1935
• Ends: 23 January 1936

The Wood Pig

Wood years are traditionally linked with growth, generosity and cooperation: the element of things that grow towards the light and make room for others. The Pig closes the cycle, and tradition sees it as the zodiac's most generous sign. Pig people are described as sincere, easy-going and diligent, good company at a table and hard workers when it counts.

Born in January or February 1935?

Anyone born from 1 January to 3 February 1935 belongs to the Wood Dog year of 1934. From 4 February 1935 the Wood Pig year begins.

How the dates are worked out

Each Chinese New Year here is worked out from the sky, not copied from a list. A lunar month starts on the day of a New Moon in China Standard Time (UTC+8, or Beijing local time before 1929). The month holding the December solstice is the 11th month. When 13 New Moons fall between two of those months, the first month with no principal solar term (the Sun reaching a multiple of 30 degrees) is a leap month. New Year is the first day of the 1st month, which is why it moves between 21 January and 20 February. New Moons and solar terms follow Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms. The rules follow the Chinese calendar.

1934: Wood Dog · 1936: Fire Rat · All Pig years · All 12 animals