1947 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Fire Pig

1947 is the year of the Fire Pig (丁亥 Dīnghài), from 22 January 1947 to 9 February 1948. Anyone born in 1947 before 22 January 1947 belongs to the Fire Dog year.

• Animal: Pig
• Element: Fire (Yin)
• Cycle name: 丁亥 Dīnghài, year 24 of the 60-year cycle
• Starts: 22 January 1947
• Ends: 9 February 1948

The Fire Pig

Fire years are traditionally linked with passion, visibility and momentum: the element of warmth, courage and ideas that spread quickly. 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 1947?

Anyone born from 1 January to 21 January 1947 belongs to the Fire Dog year of 1946. From 22 January 1947 the Fire Pig year begins.

Famous people born in the Fire Pig year

• Elton John, born 25 March 1947
• Stephen King, born 21 September 1947
• Hillary Clinton, born 26 October 1947

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.

1946: Fire Dog · 1948: Earth Rat · All Pig years · All 12 animals