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You&#8217;re a Wood Dragon &#8212; but only if your birthday falls on February 16, 1904 or later.<\/strong> The Dragon year ran from February 16, 1904 through February 3, 1905.<\/p>\n  <p>The lunar new year landed unusually late that winter &#8212; February 16 sits near the back edge of the range in which it can fall &#8212; which opens an eleven-day stretch starting from Start-of-Spring on February 5 where the solar and lunar datings disagree. We sort out the boundary first, then get to the rare connection that makes 1904 stand out: its exact <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7532\u8fb0<\/span> pillar returned in 2024, the most recent Wood Dragon year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>Born in 1904? The quick answer<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"tzl-card-grid two\">\n    <div class=\"tzl-card\">\n      <span class=\"label\">Jan 1 &#8211; Feb 15, 1904<\/span>\n      <strong>Water Rabbit<\/strong>\n      <p>Still the 1903 zodiac year, which did not close until February 15. A birthday in the first six-and-a-half weeks of 1904 lands here, in Rabbit, not Dragon.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"tzl-card\">\n      <span class=\"label\">Feb 16, 1904 &#8211; Feb 3, 1905<\/span>\n      <strong>Wood Dragon<\/strong>\n      <p>The 1904 zodiac year, stem-branch <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7532\u8fb0<\/span>. The far end matters too: a child born in the first days of 1905, up to February 3, is still a Wood Dragon, not yet a Wood Snake.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>1904 at a glance<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n    <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Detail<\/th><th>1904<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr><td>Zodiac animal<\/td><td>Dragon (\u9f99 l\u00f3ng)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Element<\/td><td>Wood (Yang)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Stem-branch<\/td><td><span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7532\u8fb0 (ji\u01ce ch\u00e9n)<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Exact dates<\/td><td>February 16, 1904 &#8211; February 3, 1905<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Sign before<\/td><td>Water Rabbit (until February 15, 1904)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Sign after<\/td><td>Wood Snake (from February 4, 1905)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Age if born during calendar year 1904<\/td><td>No longer living &#8212; a birth during calendar year 1904 would be 121 or 122 in 2026<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Traditional allies<\/td><td>Rat, Monkey (trine), Rooster (six-harmony)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Clash sign<\/td><td>Dog<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n    <div class=\"mark\"><i class=\"ph-bold ph-warning-circle\"><\/i><\/div>\n    <div>\n      <h3>Born in January or February 1904?<\/h3>\n      <p>On the lunar-year convention this page uses &#8212; the standard for looking up a birth-year sign &#8212; the Dragon year runs from February 16, 1904 to February 3, 1905. Anyone born between January 1 and February 15, 1904 is a Water Rabbit carried over from 1903. The same rule holds at the closing end: a birth in the first days of 1905, up to February 3, still counts as a 1904 Wood Dragon rather than a Wood Snake.<\/p>\n      <p>The two boundaries are eleven days apart in 1904, but run the opposite way from most years on this site. Start of Spring (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">L\u00ecch\u016bn<\/span>) fell on February 5, 1904, eleven calendar days <em>before<\/em> the lunar new year on February 16 &#8212; both dates recorded in the Hong Kong Observatory&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hko.gov.hk\/en\/gts\/time\/calendar\/pdf\/files\/1904e.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1904 almanac<\/a> and cross-checked against its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hko.gov.hk\/en\/gts\/time\/calendar\/pdf\/files\/1903e.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1903<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hko.gov.hk\/en\/gts\/time\/calendar\/pdf\/files\/1905e.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1905<\/a> almanacs for the opening and closing dates. Many BaZi practitioners take L\u00ecch\u016bn, rather than the lunar new year, as the year boundary. Births from February 6 through February 15, 1904 therefore already count as Wood Dragon under the solar convention, while still reading as the previous Water Rabbit year under the lunar convention used on this page. Only February 5 itself needs the exact birth time and location, because L\u00ecch\u016bn begins at a specific moment during that day. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/january-february-zodiac\/\">January&#8211;February boundary guide<\/a> sets both methods side by side.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>What a Wood Dragon actually is<\/h2>\n  <p>&#8220;Dragon&#8221; fixes the animal; the element fixes the year. The twelve animals and the five elements run on separate wheels, and Wood meets Dragon only once in every sixty years. 1904 is written <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7532\u8fb0 (ji\u01ce ch\u00e9n)<\/span>, a Yang Wood year. Tradition assigns the Dragon&#8217;s branch, <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u8fb0<\/span>, to Earth as its own dominant hidden element, so a Wood-stem year landing on it puts Wood in the position of controlling Earth, rather than matching it or being generated by it.<\/p>\n  <p>In folklore the Dragon is the only mythical creature among the twelve zodiac animals, and it carries the heaviest weight of ambition and achievement. The idiom <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u671b\u5b50\u6210\u9f99 (w\u00e0ng z\u01d0 ch\u00e9ng l\u00f3ng)<\/span>, literally &#8220;hoping one&#8217;s child becomes a dragon,&#8221; is standard usage for a parent&#8217;s hope that a child will succeed (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinesepod.com\/dictionary\/%E6%9C%9B%E5%AD%90%E6%88%90%E9%BE%99\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChinesePod Chinese-English Dictionary<\/a>). Wood is said to add growth and upward reach to the Dragon&#8217;s usual force &#8212; steadier and more patient than a Fire or Metal Dragon year, tradition holds, though still ambitious. Read that as the sketch tradition offers, not a finding about anyone born during the Wood Dragon year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>The pillar 1904 shares with 2024<\/h2>\n  <p>The stem-branch of 1904, <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7532\u8fb0<\/span>, is one of the sixty combinations on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexagenary_cycle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexagenary cycle<\/a>, and it comes round on a fixed sixty-year beat &#8212; which put its most recent recurrence on 2024:<\/p>\n  <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n    <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Wood Dragon year<\/th><th>Status<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr><td>1844<\/td><td>A nineteenth-century cohort; no longer living<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><strong>1904<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>No longer living<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>1964<\/td><td>61 or 62 years old in 2026<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>2024<\/td><td>The most recent Wood Dragon recurrence<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n  <p>1904 and 2024 are exactly 120 years apart, so the two zodiac years carry the same <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7532\u8fb0<\/span> pillar &#8212; the same Heavenly Stem and Earthly Branch, two complete sixty-year cycles apart. 2024 also drew unusual attention to the English name for <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u9f99<\/span>: Chinese state media and Hong Kong&#8217;s Chief Executive promoted &#8220;loong&#8221; over the conventional &#8220;dragon,&#8221; to separate the Chinese creature from Western myth (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/16\/china\/happy-new-year-of-the-dragon-or-loong-intl-hnk\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>). The <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/2024-chinese-zodiac\/\">2024 Wood Dragon page<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/wood-dragon-chinese-zodiac\/\">Wood Dragon element page<\/a> cover the pairing in more detail.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>Traditional Dragon pairings<\/h2>\n  <p>In the traditional groupings, the Dragon forms a three-harmony trine with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-rat\/\">Rat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-monkey\/\">Monkey<\/a>, pairs with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-rooster\/\">Rooster<\/a> in six-harmony, and stands opposite the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-dog\/\">Dog<\/a> in the clash. These animal relationships are fixed, and the Wood element does not change them; the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-dragon\/\">Dragon compatibility guide<\/a> works through each pairing in full.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>The years on either side<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n    <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Year<\/th><th>Sign<\/th><th>Zodiac dates<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1903-chinese-zodiac\/\">1903<\/a><\/td><td>Water Rabbit<\/td><td>Jan 29, 1903 &#8211; Feb 15, 1904<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><strong>1904<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Wood Dragon<\/strong><\/td><td>Feb 16, 1904 &#8211; Feb 3, 1905<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1905-chinese-zodiac\/\">1905<\/a><\/td><td>Wood Snake<\/td><td>from Feb 4, 1905<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n  <p>Notice how the opening date swings: January 29 in 1903, February 16 in 1904, February 4 in 1905 &#8212; back and forth across nearly three weeks around 1904 alone. That drift is exactly why a plain birth-year lookup slips so easily around January and early February. Both neighbours have their own pages &#8212; the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1903-chinese-zodiac\/\">1903 Water Rabbit<\/a> before it and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1905-chinese-zodiac\/\">1905 Wood Snake<\/a> after &#8212; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/year-of-the-dragon\/\">Dragon animal guide<\/a> follows the five elements through every Dragon year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section tzl-faq\">\n  <h2>1904 Chinese zodiac: common questions<\/h2>\n  <details><summary>What is the Chinese zodiac sign for 1904?<\/summary><p>1904 is a Dragon year &#8212; the Wood Dragon &#8212; for anyone born on or after February 16, 1904.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>What are the exact 1904 Wood Dragon dates?<\/summary><p>February 16, 1904 to February 3, 1905. Anything earlier belongs to the Water Rabbit year of 1903.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>What element is 1904 in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>Wood. The full stem-branch name is \u7532\u8fb0 (ji\u01ce ch\u00e9n), a Yang Wood year.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>Is everyone born in 1904 a Wood Dragon?<\/summary><p>No. Births from January 1 to February 15, 1904 fall in the previous Water Rabbit year. And someone born in the first days of 1905, up to February 3, is still a 1904 Wood Dragon.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>How does Start of Spring affect the 1904 boundary?<\/summary><p>Start of Spring fell on February 5, 1904, eleven days before the lunar new year on February 16. Births from February 6 through February 15 already count as Wood Dragon under the solar convention, but still read as Water Rabbit under the lunar convention used on this page. Only February 5 itself needs the exact birth time and location, because L\u00ecch\u016bn begins at a specific moment during that day.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>What years share the 1904 Wood Dragon pillar?<\/summary><p>The \u7532\u8fb0 Wood Dragon pillar returns every sixty years: 1844, 1904, 1964 and 2024. A person born during the 2024 Wood Dragon year shares the exact stem-branch with someone born during the 1904 Wood Dragon year, two full cycles apart.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>How old would someone born in 1904 be in 2026?<\/summary><p>121 or 122, depending on the month &#8212; older than any verified human lifespan on record, so no one born in 1904 is still living.<\/p><\/details>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"go-deeper\">\n  <h2>Looking this up for someone born in 1904?<\/h2>\n  <p>A public page stops at the shared facts. If what brought you here is an ancestor&#8217;s record &#8212; a date in an old register, a name on a family tree you are trying to fill in &#8212; two things carry a birth year further than a page like this can:<\/p>\n  <div class=\"tzl-links two\">\n    <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/product\/personalized-reading\/\"><strong>Personalized Reading<\/strong>Turns a birth year into something you can keep with the family papers &#8212; the zodiac year and its exact dates, the element and stem-branch, and the traditional associations, printable and written so relatives who know none of this can follow it.<span>See the reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n    <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/product\/couple-chinese-zodiac-compatibility-report\/\"><strong>Couple Compatibility Report<\/strong>The same care for two people at once &#8212; a married pair among the ancestors &#8212; with both birth-year records set down side by side rather than reduced to a score.<span>See the report &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>Where to go next<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"tzl-next\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/year-of-the-dragon\/\"><span>The animal<\/span><b>Dragon Guide<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/2024-chinese-zodiac\/\"><span>Same pillar<\/span><b>2024 Wood Dragon<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/wood-dragon-chinese-zodiac\/\"><span>The element<\/span><b>Wood Dragon<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-dragon\/\"><span>Compatibility<\/span><b>Dragon Matches<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/january-february-zodiac\/\"><span>Boundary<\/span><b>Jan &amp; Feb Rule<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/zodiac-years-chart\/\"><span>Full<\/span><b>Years Chart<\/b><\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section id=\"editorial-note\" class=\"tzl-editorial\">\n  <h3>Editorial note<\/h3>\n  <p>The calendar side of this page &#8212; the February 16, 1904 start, the February 3, 1905 close, the February 5 Start of Spring, and the <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7532\u8fb0 (ji\u01ce ch\u00e9n)<\/span> stem-branch &#8212; can be checked against the Hong Kong Observatory&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hko.gov.hk\/en\/gts\/time\/calendar\/pdf\/files\/1904e.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1904 almanac<\/a> or any sexagenary table. The idiom \u671b\u5b50\u6210\u9f99 and the 2024 &#8220;loong&#8221; naming discussion are documented usage, cited above. Everything touching character, compatibility and fortune is symbolic tradition, shared for cultural interest. 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The lunar new year landed unusually late that winter &#8212; &#8230; <a title=\"1904 im chinesischen Tierkreis: Das Jahr des Holz-Drachen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/1904-chinese-zodiac\/\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber 1904 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Wood Dragon\">Weiterlesen \u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"rank_math_title":"1904 Chinese Zodiac: Year of the Wood Dragon","rank_math_description":"1904 Chinese Zodiac: the Wood Dragon year, exact dates, the stem-branch, and its rare connection to 2024, the most recent Wood Dragon year.","rank_math_focus_keyword":"1904 chinese zodiac","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3427","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3427\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}