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We sort out who falls where before anything else on the page.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>Born in 1900? The quick answer<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"tzl-card-grid two\">\n    <div class=\"tzl-card\">\n      <span class=\"label\">Jan 1 \u2013 Jan 30, 1900<\/span>\n      <strong>Earth Pig<\/strong>\n      <p>Still the 1899 zodiac year, which didn&#8217;t close until January 30. A birthday in the first month of 1900 lands here, in Pig, not Rat.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"tzl-card\">\n      <span class=\"label\">Jan 31, 1900 \u2013 Feb 18, 1901<\/span>\n      <strong>Metal Rat<\/strong>\n      <p>The 1900 zodiac year, stem-branch <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u5e9a\u5b50<\/span>. It closes the day before the next lunar new year \u2014 a birth in the first weeks of February 1901, up to February 18, is still a Metal Rat, not yet a Metal Ox.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>1900 at a glance<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n    <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Detail<\/th><th>1900<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr><td>Zodiac animal<\/td><td>Rat (\u9f20 sh\u01d4)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Element<\/td><td>Metal (Yang)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Stem-branch<\/td><td><span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u5e9a\u5b50 (g\u0113ng z\u01d0)<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Exact dates<\/td><td>January 31, 1900 \u2013 February 18, 1901<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Sign before<\/td><td>Earth Pig (until January 30, 1900)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Sign after<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1901-chinese-zodiac\/\">Metal Ox (from February 19, 1901)<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Age in 2026 (if born during calendar year 1900)<\/td><td>125 or 126<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Traditional allies<\/td><td>Dragon, Monkey (trine), Ox (six-harmony)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Clash sign<\/td><td>Horse<\/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 late January or early February 1900?<\/h3>\n      <p>On the lunar-year convention this page uses \u2014 the standard for looking up a birth-year sign \u2014 the Metal Rat year runs from January 31, 1900 to February 18, 1901. Anyone born January 1 through January 30, 1900 is still an Earth Pig carried over from 1899.<\/p>\n      <p>The solar side runs a few days behind the lunar side this year. Start of Spring (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">L\u00ecch\u016bn<\/span>) fell on February 4, 1900, four days after the lunar new year on January 31. Many BaZi practitioners treat L\u00ecch\u016bn, not the lunar new year, as the boundary, so a birth between January 31 and February 3 already counts as Metal Rat under the lunar convention this page follows, while still reading as Earth Pig under the solar convention. A February 4 birth needs the exact time and place, since L\u00ecch\u016bn begins at a specific moment that day, not at midnight. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/january-february-zodiac\/\">January\u2013February boundary guide<\/a> lays out both methods side by side.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>What a Metal Rat actually is<\/h2>\n  <p>&#8220;Rat&#8221; names the animal; the element rides on top of it. 1900 is written <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u5e9a\u5b50 (g\u0113ng z\u01d0)<\/span> \u2014 Yang Metal on the stem, sitting above a branch that tradition assigns to Water. In the traditional five-element generating cycle, Metal generates Water, so this is read as the stem feeding the branch. That is the same generating direction as 1902&#8217;s <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u58ec\u5bc5<\/span>, where a Water stem feeds a Wood branch \u2014 two different links in the same five-element cycle.<\/p>\n  <p>In folklore the Rat is the trickster that finishes first: the animal that won the Great Race not through size or speed but by riding across the river on the Ox&#8217;s back and hopping off right at the line, claiming the lead sign in the twelve-year cycle through quick thinking rather than brute strength. Metal is said to sharpen that cleverness into something more decisive and less forgiving \u2014 a sharper edge than a plain Water or Wood Rat would carry. Read that as the symbolic reading tradition offers, not a claim about any specific person born that year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>A caution named after the Rat: \u6295\u9f20\u5fcc\u5668<\/h2>\n  <p><span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u6295\u9f20\u5fcc\u5668 (t\u00f3u sh\u01d4 j\u00ec q\u00ec)<\/span> \u2014 literally &#8220;throw at the rat, but fear breaking the vessel&#8221; \u2014 comes from the Han-dynasty statesman Jia Yi&#8217;s memorial to the throne, recorded in the <em>Book of Han<\/em> (<em>H\u00e0n Sh\u016b<\/em>), biography of Jia Yi: <span class=\"tzl-cn\">&#8220;\u91cc\u8c1a\u66f0\uff1a\u6b32\u6295\u9f20\u800c\u5fcc\u5668\uff0c\u6b64\u5584\u8c15\u4e5f&#8221;<\/span> \u2014 &#8220;a village saying goes, &#8216;wanting to hit the rat but fearing to damage what&#8217;s beside it&#8217; \u2014 that&#8217;s a fitting comparison.&#8221; Jia Yi used the proverb to describe why officials near the throne hesitated to move against wrongdoers who sat too close to power: strike at the rat, and the valuable vessel beside it might shatter too.<\/p>\n  <p>The saying has since settled into everyday use for any situation where caution about collateral damage stops decisive action. It&#8217;s a fitting cultural pairing for a Rat year page for a different reason than most idioms chosen here: rather than describing the animal&#8217;s temperament directly, it&#8217;s built around the Rat as a stand-in for a problem that has to be handled carefully \u2014 a small reminder that the same animal credited with cleverness in the zodiac legend also shows up in classical Chinese as shorthand for &#8220;the pest you can&#8217;t just strike at carelessly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>The pillar 1900 shares with 2020<\/h2>\n  <p>The stem-branch <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u5e9a\u5b50<\/span> is one point on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexagenary_cycle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sexagenary cycle<\/a>, and it returns on a fixed sixty-year beat:<\/p>\n  <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n    <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Metal Rat year<\/th><th>Age in 2026 for calendar-year births<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr><td>1840<\/td><td>A nineteenth-century cohort; no longer living<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><strong>1900<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>125 or 126 years old<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>1960<\/td><td>65 or 66 years old<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/2020-chinese-zodiac\/\">2020<\/a><\/td><td>5 or 6 years old<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n  <p>The most recent recurrence is 2020, two complete sixty-year cycles after 1900. A person born during the 2020 Metal Rat year carries the exact same <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u5e9a\u5b50<\/span> pillar as someone born during the 1900 Metal Rat year, a hundred and twenty years apart on the same sixty-year wheel. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/metal-rat-chinese-zodiac\/\">Metal Rat element page<\/a> follows what that shared pillar is traditionally held to carry.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>Traditional Rat pairings<\/h2>\n  <p>In the traditional groupings, the Rat forms a three-harmony trine with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-dragon\/\">Dragon<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-monkey\/\">Monkey<\/a>, pairs with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-ox\/\">Ox<\/a> in six-harmony, and stands opposite the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-horse\/\">Horse<\/a> in the clash. These animal relationships stay fixed regardless of which element rides a given Rat year; Metal changes the temperament, not the pairing. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-rat\/\">Rat 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\/1899-chinese-zodiac\/\">1899<\/a><\/td><td>Earth Pig<\/td><td>\u2013 Jan 30, 1900<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><strong>1900<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Metal Rat<\/strong><\/td><td>Jan 31, 1900 \u2013 Feb 18, 1901<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1901-chinese-zodiac\/\">1901<\/a><\/td><td>Metal Ox<\/td><td>from Feb 19, 1901<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n  <p>Both neighboring years already have their own pages here \u2014 the Earth Pig year right before this one, and the Metal Ox year right after, are both one click away. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/year-of-the-rat\/\">Rat animal guide<\/a> follows the five elements through every Rat year, including this one.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section tzl-faq\">\n  <h2>1900 Chinese zodiac: common questions<\/h2>\n  <details><summary>What is the Chinese zodiac sign for 1900?<\/summary><p>1900 is a Rat year \u2014 the Metal Rat \u2014 for anyone born on or after January 31, 1900.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>What are the exact 1900 Metal Rat dates?<\/summary><p>January 31, 1900 to February 18, 1901. Anything before January 31, 1900 belongs to the Earth Pig year of 1899.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>What element is 1900 in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>Metal. The full stem-branch name is \u5e9a\u5b50 (g\u0113ng z\u01d0), a Yang Metal year, sitting on the Rat&#8217;s own Water branch.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>Is everyone born in 1900 a Metal Rat?<\/summary><p>No. Births from January 1 to January 30, 1900 fall in the previous Earth Pig year. Someone born in the first weeks of February 1901, up to February 18, is still a 1900 Metal Rat.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>How does Start of Spring affect the 1900 boundary?<\/summary><p>Start of Spring fell on February 4, 1900, four days after the lunar new year on January 31. Births between January 31 and February 3 already read as Metal Rat under the lunar convention this page follows, while still counting as Earth Pig under the solar convention some BaZi practitioners use. A February 4 birth needs the exact time and location, because L\u00ecch\u016bn begins at a specific moment during that day.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>What years share the 1900 Metal Rat pillar?<\/summary><p>The \u5e9a\u5b50 Metal Rat pillar returns every sixty years: 1840, 1900, 1960 and 2020. A person born during the 2020 Metal Rat year carries the exact same stem-branch as someone born during the 1900 Metal Rat year, two sixty-year turns apart.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>How old is someone born in 1900 in 2026?<\/summary><p>125 or 126 in 2026, depending on whether their birthday has passed.<\/p><\/details>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"go-deeper\">\n  <h2>Looking this up for someone born in 1900?<\/h2>\n  <p>A public page stops at the shared facts. If what brought you here is an ancestor&#8217;s record \u2014 a date in an old register, a name on a family tree you&#8217;re trying to fill in \u2014 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 \u2014 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 \u2014 a married pair among the ancestors \u2014 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-rat\/\"><span>The animal<\/span><b>Rat Guide<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/2020-chinese-zodiac\/\"><span>Same pillar<\/span><b>2020 Metal Rat<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/metal-rat-chinese-zodiac\/\"><span>The element<\/span><b>Metal Rat<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-rat\/\"><span>Compatibility<\/span><b>Rat 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 \u2014 the January 31, 1900 start, the February 18, 1901 close, and the <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u5e9a\u5b50 (g\u0113ng z\u01d0)<\/span> stem-branch \u2014 follows standard sexagenary-cycle calculation and is cross-checked against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hko.gov.hk\/en\/gts\/time\/calendar\/pdf\/files\/1901e.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">neighboring 1901 almanac<\/a> already used on this site. Because the Hong Kong Observatory&#8217;s online calendar-conversion series begins in 1901, the February 4, 1900 Start of Spring date and underlying solar-term calculation on this page are instead drawn from the historical solar-term tables published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmo.cas.cn\/xwdt2019\/kpdt2019\/202203\/P020250414456381274062.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purple Mountain Observatory (\u4e2d\u56fd\u79d1\u5b66\u9662\u7d2b\u91d1\u5c71\u5929\u6587\u53f0)<\/a> and cross-checked against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asia-home.com\/china\/newyear\/year\/1900\/lang\/en.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">asia-home.com&#8217;s independent Chinese-calendar conversion<\/a>. The \u6295\u9f20\u5fcc\u5668 idiom and its origin in the <em>Book of Han<\/em>, biography of Jia Yi, are documented in standard Chinese idiom references. Everything touching character, compatibility and fortune is symbolic tradition, shared for cultural interest. 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