Chinese zodiac 1928
Year of the Earth Dragon
23 January 1928 to 9 February 1929
Born in 1928? Your sign depends on the day
The animal changes at Lunar New Year, not on 1 January. In 1928 it falls on 23 January 1928.
- 23 January to 31 December 1928
- 🐉 Earth Dragon
- and on to 9 Feb 1929
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The Earth Dragon at a glance
Animal
🐉 Dragon
Said to be ambitious, energetic, charismatic.
Element
土 Yang Earth
Linked with stability and patience. Each element rules two years in a row.
Length
384 days
A long year: the calendar adds a thirteenth, leap month.
Other Dragon years
The 60-year cycle
Animal and element line up again only every 60 years. The Earth Dragon years nearest to this one are 1868 and 1988.
Who gets on with the Dragon
Allies
Four years apart. The three animals of a trine are said to share a temperament.
Secret friend
One of six fixed pairs said to complement each other.
Opposite
Six years apart, directly across the wheel. Tradition calls this the hardest pairing.
Friction
One of six fixed pairs said to rub each other the wrong way.
Bonds come from each animal's position among the twelve, as tradition sets them. They describe the Dragon sign in general, not any one person.
Dates are computed estimates from the Hong Kong Observatory's calendar tables, counted in China's time zone. Some traditions change the animal at the start of spring (around 4 February) instead of at Lunar New Year.