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2026 · 丙午 (Bing Wu) · year of the Horse

2026 (丙午, Bing Wu) — the structure of the year

2026 is 丙午 (Bing Wu), the Horse, with lichun at 2026-02-04 04:02, nayin Celestial River Water, number 43 of the sixty-cycle. This page lists everything about the year that can be computed: which animals stand in which relation to the year branch (the "fan tai sui" list), the twelve month pillars that follow from the year stem, and the instant the year turns.

This is not a forecast

Plenty of people search for "2026 yearly forecast", so this needs saying first: nothing on this page predicts events. Fan tai sui is a fixed table relation between an animal and the year branch — computable and checkable, but carrying no fortune score. Ranking the animals of a year into bands and attaching a remedy is the standard commercial move in this niche; this site publishes the relations and sells nothing to avert them.

The animals that offend 2026

Computed from the tables, 4 animals stand in a relation to the 2026 year branch (午). The five relations can stack, so one animal may appear in two kinds at once.

The twelve month pillars of 2026

From the five-tiger rule: the year stem 丙 (Bing) fixes the first month's stem, and the rest run in order — all twelve inside the sixty-cycle. Month pillars turn at the solar term, so the "opens at" column is that switching point.

MonthOpens atMonth pillar
1立春 Start of Spring庚寅 (Geng Yin)
2惊蛰 Awakening of Insects辛卯 (Xin Mao)
3清明 Clear and Bright壬辰 (Ren Chen)
4立夏 Start of Summer癸巳 (Gui Si)
5芒种 Grain in Ear甲午 (Jia Wu)
6小暑 Minor Heat乙未 (Yi Wei)
7立秋 Start of Autumn丙申 (Bing Shen)
8白露 White Dew丁酉 (Ding You)
9寒露 Cold Dew戊戌 (Wu Xu)
10立冬 Start of Winter己亥 (Ji Hai)
11大雪 Major Snow庚子 (Geng Zi)
12小寒 Minor Cold辛丑 (Xin Chou)

The year turns at 2026-02-04 04:02

2026 begins at 2026-02-04 04:02 (lichun, Beijing time). Anyone born before that instant carries the 2025 year pillar (乙巳, Yi Si) instead. This site judges the year pillar, the animal and every day pillar against this one boundary, so its pages cannot contradict each other.

Where it sits in the sixty-cycle

2026 is number 43 of the sixty, the same pillar as 1966 and 2086 — the cycle repeats every sixty years because the stem and branch periods (10 and 12) meet again at 60.

What this page deliberately does not do. The address of this page contains the word "forecast", so it is worth being blunt: nothing here predicts your year. What is published is the year's structural description — its stem and branch, the instant lichun begins it, the twelve month pillars that follow from the year stem, and, for each of the twelve animals, which of the five table relations it stands in to the year branch. Those relations are the same fixed tables used across this site; they can be computed, and they can be checked. What they cannot do is tell you what will happen. Every commercial reading of a year like this ends in a claim about events, and most of them end in a product sold to avert those events. This site makes no claim about events and sells nothing to avert them. If that is what you came for, this page is not it — and the honest reason is that the system itself does not contain it.

Frequently asked

What is 2026?
2026 is 丙午 (Bing Wu), the Horse, lichun at 2026-02-04 04:02, nayin Celestial River Water, number 43 of the sixty-cycle.
Which animals offend 2026?
4 of them: Rat (Clash), Ox (Harm), Rabbit (Break), Horse (Own year + Punishment). The verdict comes from the five fixed relations between each animal's branch and the year branch 午; every row can be checked in the full table on this page.
What will 2026 be like?
This site makes no forecast and no claim about events. Commercial readings of a year end in a claim about what will happen and then in a product sold to avert it; this page publishes only the computable structure — the pillar, the lichun instant, the relation tables, the month pillars.
How are 2026's month pillars derived?
By the five-tiger rule: the year stem 丙 (Bing) opens the first month at 庚寅 (Geng Yin), then twelve months in order. They turn at the solar terms shown in the "opens at" column, and all twelve sit inside the sixty-cycle.

Nearby years

The 2027 year page → · All twelve animals

Reference index

Every enumerable component of ba zi has its own page here. Each page is computed by the same engine and can be checked item by item — none of it is a personality table.