1927 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Fire Rabbit (丁卯)

1927 was a 丁卯 (Ding Mao) year — the 4th of the sixty stem-and-branch combinations, and in everyday English a Fire Rabbit year. The element in that name comes from the heavenly stem 丁 (Yin Fire); the branch 卯, the Rabbit itself, carries Wood whatever the stem above it says. Its na yin, the older sixty-part scheme, reads 炉中火 — a Fire na yin.

The 1927 zodiac year did not start on 1 January. It started at Lichun (立春), 5 Feb 1927, 03:30 (Beijing time, UTC+8), and ran until the instant before Lichun 1928, 5 Feb 1928, 09:16 (Beijing time, UTC+8). Chinese New Year 1927 fell on 2 February 1927, a separate boundary that festivals use; between the two dates the popular and the classical conventions disagree. Anyone born in January or early February 1927 should check the table below before claiming a sign.

1927 is one of 9 Rabbit years between 1924 and 2027, and one of 2 Fire Rabbit years in that span (1927 and 1987), because stem and branch only line up again after sixty years: the same 丁卯 pillar last stood in 1867 and returns in 1987.

Born on 1 January 1927? That is a Tiger, not a Rabbit: the Fire Tiger year 丙寅 ran on until 5 February 1927 at 03:30 Beijing time.

Lichun is an astronomical instant, not a date: in 1927 it fell at 03:30 Beijing time (UTC+8). The instant itself starts the Rabbit year, so a birth at 03:30 on that day is already a Rabbit. Convert your own birth moment to Beijing time first — a birth in the Americas on the previous evening can already be past Lichun in Beijing. Check an exact birth date and time.

Ten stems and twelve branches only return to the same pairing after sixty years, so 丁卯 belongs to 1867, 1927 and 1987 and to no year in between. That is why a sixtieth birthday is traditionally marked: it is the year the whole pillar comes back.

Fire Rabbit (Ding Mao) has Wood feeding Fire, the output relationship, and the reading is of taste turned into expression — performance, writing, design, teaching. Ding Mao is described as the warmest and most openly charming of the five, and the standard caution concerns the energy drawn out of the branch: this variant is advised to protect its rest.

At Lichun 2027 someone born in 1927 is 99 if their birthday has not yet come round and 100 if it has. The nominal age (虚岁), counted as one at birth and raised at each Chinese New Year, is 101 once New Year 2027 has passed.

The full reading — the month-by-month table, the five-element relationship with the year stem and the traditional remedies — is on Rabbit in 2027. For the part of the sign that does not move with the year, see the Rabbit profile.