{"id":4814,"date":"2026-09-27T02:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T18:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/rooster-snake-compatibility\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:04:27","slug":"kompatibilitat-der-hahnschlange","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/de\/rooster-snake-compatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Kompatibilit\u00e4t zwischen Hahn und Schlange: Ein Metall-Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"tzl-page\">\n  <style>\n\/* The Zodiac Lore \u2014 Style B brand-unified *\/\n.tzl-page{\n  --bg:#fff;--ink:#0a0a0a;--soft:#3a3a3a;--grey:#5c5c5c;--muted:#9a9a9a;--line:#e6e6e6;\n  --accent:#e1391b;--accent-dark:#b02a12;\n  --sans:\"Archivo\",Arial,sans-serif;--mono:\"Spline Sans Mono\",ui-monospace,monospace;\n  --zh:\"Noto Sans SC\",\"PingFang SC\",\"Microsoft YaHei\",sans-serif;\n  max-width:1040px;margin:0 auto;color:var(--ink);background:var(--bg);\n  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Their connection belongs to the Three Harmonies framework: \u5df3\u9149 is commonly described in later BaZi terminology as a two-branch half-combination within the full \u5df3\u9149\u4e11 Metal trio (Snake-Rooster-Ox). Ox supplies the third branch needed to complete that trio.<\/p>\n      <p>Because only two of the three branches are present, \u5df3\u9149 (Snake with Rooster) is what later BaZi practice calls a half-combination (\u534a\u5408). Which specific two you have matters, and the terminology draws a distinction: \u5df3\u9149 is a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 because \u5df3 supplies metal&#8217;s birth position and \u9149 supplies its peak. That is different from \u9149\u4e11, which joins the peak and storage positions and is commonly called \u65fa\u5893\u534a\u5408. The page below explains the classical life-cycle logic behind the metal trio, and separates that shared-trio link from the other branch relationships people often assume are also in play here.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"quick-answer\">\n      <h2>A Metal half-combination \u2014 not a Six Harmonies pair<\/h2>\n      <p>Each zodiac animal corresponds to one of the twelve Earthly Branches (\u5730\u652f) \u2014 the symbolic markers used in the traditional Chinese calendar and in BaZi, a birth-chart system built from a person&#8217;s year, month, day, and hour of birth. Words like &#8220;harmony,&#8221; &#8220;clash,&#8221; and &#8220;harm&#8221; below are the technical names classical texts give to specific branch relationships; they are not literal predictions that a couple will be harmonious or will clash. This page checks Rooster and Snake against the same seven branch-relationship schemes used across this site&#8217;s other pairing pages: Three Harmonies, Three Meetings, Six Harmonies, Six Conflicts, Six Harms, Punishments, and Mutual Breaks.<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n        <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n          <thead>\n            <tr>\n              <th>Branch relationship scheme<\/th>\n              <th>Names Rooster + Snake?<\/th>\n              <th>Where each sign actually sits<\/th>\n            <\/tr>\n          <\/thead>\n          <tbody>\n            <tr><td>Three Harmonies (\u4e09\u5408)<\/td><td><strong>Shared trio, as a half-combination<\/strong><\/td><td>Both belong to the metal trio \u5df3\u9149\u4e11 (Snake-Rooster-Ox). Snake and Rooster alone form the \u5df3\u9149 half-combination; Ox is the third branch and completes the full trine<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Three Meetings (\u4e09\u4f1a)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Snake sits in \u5df3\u5348\u672a (summer\/south); Rooster sits in \u7533\u9149\u620c (autumn\/west) \u2014 two different seasonal trios<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Harmonies (\u516d\u5408)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Snake&#8217;s Six Harmonies partner is Monkey (\u5df3\u7533\u5408); Rooster&#8217;s is Dragon (\u8fb0\u9149\u5408)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Conflicts (\u516d\u51b2)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Snake clashes with Pig (\u5df3\u4ea5\u51b2); Rooster clashes with Rabbit (\u536f\u9149\u51b2)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Six Harms (\u516d\u5bb3)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Snake&#8217;s harm partner is Tiger (\u5bc5\u5df3\u76f8\u5bb3); Rooster&#8217;s is Dog (\u9149\u620c\u76f8\u5bb3)<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Punishments (\u5211)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Snake is in the \u5bc5\u5df3\u7533 punishment set (with Tiger and Monkey); Rooster carries a self-punishment (\u9149\u81ea\u5211) \u2014 neither names the other<\/td><\/tr>\n            <tr><td>Mutual Breaks (\u76f8\u7834)<\/td><td>No<\/td><td>Snake&#8217;s break partner is Monkey (\u5df3\u7533\u7834); Rooster&#8217;s is Rat (\u5b50\u9149\u7834)<\/td><\/tr>\n          <\/tbody>\n        <\/table>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n        <strong>These are the branch-relationship schemes checked on this page, not a claim that classical fate calculation has exactly seven categories and no more.<\/strong> Within the seven schemes checked here, Snake and Rooster are connected through the Three Harmonies framework: \u5df3\u9149 is a two-branch half-combination within the full \u5df3\u9149\u4e11 Metal trio. It is not a Six Harmonies pair, and the complete three-branch grouping also requires \u4e11 (Ox). The next section explains what that half-combination actually rests on, which is where most compatibility write-ups stop short.\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"why-the-metal-trio\">\n      <h2>What a Three Harmonies trio actually is: a metal life-cycle, not two tidy signs<\/h2>\n      <p>Most Rooster-and-Snake write-ups explain the match by stacking personality adjectives \u2014 both intelligent, both stylish, both goal-oriented \u2014 and leaving it there. The classical reason the two branches are grouped at all is more specific, and it has nothing to do with temperament.<\/p>\n      <p>In the Four Pillars framework, each of the five elements is imagined moving through a life cycle across the twelve branches: it is born, grows, peaks, weakens, and is finally stored away. Three of those stages are the load-bearing ones \u2014 birth (\u957f\u751f, ch\u00e1ngsh\u0113ng), peak (\u5e1d\u65fa, d\u00ecw\u00e0ng), and tomb or storehouse (\u5893, m\u00f9). A Three Harmonies trio is simply the three branches that hold those three stages for one element. The three-stage vocabulary above \u2014 \u957f\u751f, \u5e1d\u65fa, \u5893 \u2014 is later Four Pillars and calendrical terminology. An earlier version of the same three-branch pattern already appears in the Han-era <em>Huainanzi<\/em> (\u6dee\u5357\u5b50, 2nd century BCE), using an older vocabulary of \u751f, \u58ef, \u6b7b: <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u91d1\u751f\u65bc\u5df3\uff0c\u58ef\u65bc\u9149\uff0c\u6b7b\u65bc\u4e11<\/span>, &#8220;metal is born at Si (Snake), strongest at You (Rooster), and ends at Chou (Ox).&#8221; Later Four Pillars doctrine formalizes that pattern into the modern three-stage terminology. For metal, that is:<\/p>\n\n      <div class=\"tzl-mini-grid\">\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><span>\u957f\u751f \u00b7 Birth<\/span><strong>Snake \u5df3<\/strong><p>The branch where metal is traditionally said to be &#8220;born&#8221; \u2014 its long-life stage, the point where the element first takes hold.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><span>\u5e1d\u65fa \u00b7 Peak<\/span><strong>Rooster \u9149<\/strong><p>The branch where metal is at its strongest \u2014 the peak or &#8220;emperor&#8221; stage, the middle and center of the trio.<\/p><\/div>\n        <div class=\"tzl-mini\"><span>\u5893 \u00b7 Storehouse<\/span><strong>Ox \u4e11<\/strong><p>The branch where metal is stored away \u2014 the tomb stage that closes the cycle and completes the full \u5df3\u9149\u4e11 trine.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <p>So the metal trio isn&#8217;t three signs that happen to get along. It is one element&#8217;s rising-and-resting arc, split across three branches. Snake and Rooster are the first two of those three: the birth of metal and the peak of metal. This is a statement about a life-cycle position, not about the branches&#8217; own fixed elements \u2014 in another classical scheme Snake&#8217;s own branch reads as fire and Rooster&#8217;s as metal, but the trine describes where <em>metal<\/em> rises and rests across the calendar, not what each animal &#8220;is.&#8221; That shared metal current \u2014 not a checklist of shared traits \u2014 is what the tradition points to when it groups them.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"the-half-combination\">\n      <h2>Why \u5df3\u9149 is called a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 \u2014 and what that does not mean<\/h2>\n      <p>When only two of a trio&#8217;s three branches are present, later and contemporary BaZi terminology treats it as a half-combination (\u534a\u5408, b\u00e0n h\u00e9). Later BaZi practice further sorts these two-branch groups by which stages they cover. In the later BaZi terminology used here, \u5df3\u9149 is a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408, a &#8220;birth-and-peak&#8221; half-combination: \u5df3 supplies the birth position (\u957f\u751f) and \u9149 supplies the peak (\u5e1d\u65fa). That differs from \u9149\u4e11, which joins the peak (\u5e1d\u65fa) and the storage position (\u5893) and is commonly called a \u65fa\u5893\u534a\u5408. Both include \u9149, so including the peak branch alone does not define a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 \u2014 the specific pair of stages is what the label is naming. This sorting is standard in later and contemporary BaZi practice; it is not a fixed ranking stated in the early classical sources.<\/p>\n      <p>That label describes the structure \u2014 which two of metal&#8217;s three life-cycle stages the pair holds \u2014 and nothing more. Later BaZi commentary sometimes calls the peak-inclusive variants comparatively strong, but the label by itself does not establish successful transformation into Metal in a full chart, a favorable outcome in someone&#8217;s birth reading, or a compatibility verdict between two people. It is also the honest limit on the claim: \u5df3\u9149 is a <em>half<\/em> of a three-branch group, not a self-contained two-branch bond like a Six Harmonies pair. Ox is not optional for the full trine.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\">Snake and Rooster do not share a Three Meetings group or form a Six Harmonies pair. Nor are they paired by the clash, harm, punishment, or break rules checked on this page. These are classifications within the branch-relationship systems this page reports on \u2014 an absence of a named tie inside those systems, not a guarantee about a relationship between two real people.<\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"confirm-your-signs\">\n      <h2>First, make sure these are really your two signs<\/h2>\n      <p>A pairing reading is only about the right two signs if each birthday is placed in the correct zodiac year \u2014 and the boundary is not January 1. For the lunar-zodiac convention this site uses, the animal year changes at Lunar New Year, which falls between about January 21 and February 20 depending on the year, so a birthday in January or early February can belong to the <em>previous<\/em> animal year. Someone born in mid-January 2017, for example, was born before that year&#8217;s Lunar New Year (January 28, 2017) and carries the previous year&#8217;s sign \u2014 Monkey \u2014 not Rooster.<\/p>\n      <p>Many BaZi practitioners instead start the astrological year at L\u00ecch\u016bn (\u7acb\u6625), the solar term around February 3\u20135; L\u00ecch\u016bn has a precise clock time, so a birthday on the boundary day itself needs the exact birth time and place to resolve. If either person here has a January or early-February birthday, confirm the sign against a real date before reading the match \u2014 you can check both on the <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-compatibility\/#compatibility-calculator\">compatibility hub&#8217;s calculator<\/a>.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"snake-side\">\n      <h2>Snake&#8217;s side: metal&#8217;s opening branch<\/h2>\n      <p>Snake is the sixth of the twelve branches (\u5df3), and this site&#8217;s <a href=\"\/compatibility-snake\/\">Snake profile<\/a> builds its reading around discretion, strategy, and a preference for working quietly behind the scenes. In the branch schemes: Rooster and Ox are Snake&#8217;s Three Harmonies partners (the metal trio); Monkey is its Six Harmonies match (\u5df3\u7533\u5408); Pig is the sign it clashes with (\u5df3\u4ea5\u51b2); Tiger is its Six Harms partner (\u5bc5\u5df3\u76f8\u5bb3); Snake sits in the \u5bc5\u5df3\u7533 punishment set with Tiger and Monkey; Monkey is also its Mutual Break partner (\u5df3\u7533\u7834). Against Rooster specifically, the only link is the shared metal trio \u2014 Snake as the birth stage of metal, the branch that opens the cycle Rooster then brings to its peak. For a Snake pairing that runs on a completely different logic, see <a href=\"\/snake-monkey-compatibility\/\">Snake with Monkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"rooster-side\">\n      <h2>Rooster&#8217;s side: metal&#8217;s peak branch<\/h2>\n      <p>Rooster is the tenth branch (\u9149), and this site&#8217;s <a href=\"\/compatibility-rooster\/\">Rooster profile<\/a> centers on precision, candor, and a taste for order and appearances. In the branch schemes: Snake and Ox are Rooster&#8217;s Three Harmonies partners; Dragon is its Six Harmonies match (\u8fb0\u9149\u5408); Rabbit is the sign it clashes with (\u536f\u9149\u51b2); Dog is its Six Harms partner (\u9149\u620c\u76f8\u5bb3); Rooster carries a self-punishment (\u9149\u81ea\u5211) rather than a punishment with another branch; Rat is its Mutual Break partner (\u5b50\u9149\u7834). Against Snake specifically, the single link is again the metal trio \u2014 Rooster as \u5e1d\u65fa, the peak and center of the group, the branch whose presence gives the \u5df3\u9149 half-combination its \u751f\u65fa label. For a contrasting Rooster pairing, compare <a href=\"\/compatibility-rooster\/\">the full Rooster breakdown<\/a> against all twelve signs.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"what-this-means\">\n      <h2>What that leaves for the actual pairing<\/h2>\n      <p>Keep the one real link clear rather than inflating it. Rooster and Snake are not a Six Harmonies pair, but they are also not simply &#8220;unrelated&#8221;: \u5df3\u9149 is a named two-branch half-combination within the metal Three Harmonies trio, and Ox is the third leg needed to complete that trio. Their shared membership in the \u5df3\u9149\u4e11 metal trine is documented in the classical sources. Later BaZi terminology describes \u5df3\u9149 as a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 \u2014 a birth-and-peak half-combination \u2014 because \u5df3 supplies the birth position and \u9149 the peak. That identifies the structure; it does not by itself establish successful transformation into Metal, a favorable outcome in a full birth chart, or romantic compatibility between two people.<\/p>\n      <p>This site&#8217;s separate Snake and Rooster sign profiles describe personality-level traits \u2014 Snake as private and strategic, Rooster as exacting and outspoken \u2014 but that personality layer is not what the trine is describing. The trine is a statement about a shared metal current running through both branches. If a reader chooses to read the two profiles together anyway, Snake&#8217;s discretion and Rooster&#8217;s candor may be read as complementary or as a study in contrasts. That personality interpretation is separate from the classical fact that \u5df3 and \u9149 occupy the birth and peak positions of the metal Three Harmonies configuration.<\/p>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"common-mistakes\">\n      <h2>Common mistakes<\/h2>\n      <ul>\n        <li><strong>Flattening &#8220;not a Six Harmonies pair&#8221; into &#8220;no relationship at all&#8221;.<\/strong> Snake and Rooster are not a Six Harmonies pair, and they are not paired in Six Conflicts, Six Harms, Punishments, or Mutual Breaks either. But \u5df3\u9149 is still a named two-branch structure inside the Three Harmonies framework \u2014 the \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 half-combination of the metal trio. What is missing is the third leg (Ox), not any two-branch tie at all.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Treating the half-combination as the full trine.<\/strong> The complete metal group is \u5df3\u9149\u4e11 \u2014 Snake, Rooster, and Ox. Snake and Rooster alone are a half-combination; Ox is not optional for the whole trine, even though \u5df3\u9149 carries the \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 label because it holds both the birth and the peak stages.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Reading the branches&#8217; own elements into the trine.<\/strong> In one classical scheme the Snake&#8217;s own branch reads as fire and the Rooster&#8217;s as metal. The metal trine is a separate framework: it describes where <em>metal<\/em> is born, peaks, and is stored across the calendar, not what element each animal &#8220;is.&#8221;<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Explaining the match purely by shared personality.<\/strong> &#8220;Both smart, both stylish&#8221; is a modern trait-stacking gloss. The classical grouping rests on a shared five-element life-cycle stage (metal&#8217;s birth and peak), not on temperament \u2014 the personality reading comes from this site&#8217;s separate sign-profile pages.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Assuming &#8220;no friction relationship&#8221; means guaranteed harmony.<\/strong> Snake and Rooster are simply not named together in Six Conflicts, Six Harms, Punishments, or Mutual Breaks. That is an absence within the seven schemes checked here, not a promise about two specific people.<\/li>\n        <li><strong>Reading a percentage score into any of this.<\/strong> Neither the trine nor the half-combination grading produces a number like &#8220;90% compatible.&#8221; That format is a modern convention layered on top of the classical system, not an output of it.<\/li>\n      <\/ul>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"go-deeper\">\n      <h2>Read it for two real charts<\/h2>\n      <p>Everything above is the general pattern for the sign pairing. If you want it for two specific people \u2014 not a generic reading \u2014 these go a step further:<\/p>\n      <div class=\"tzl-note\">\n        <p><strong>Couple Compatibility Report<\/strong> \u2014 both birth charts side by side: how the two signs and their elements read together, where they align and where they pull in different directions. <a href=\"\/product\/couple-chinese-zodiac-compatibility-report\/\">See the report &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n        <p><strong>Personalized Reading<\/strong> \u2014 one person&#8217;s full stem-branch write-up: element balance, the signs they traditionally match or clash with, and year-specific traditional symbolism. <a href=\"\/product\/personalized-reading\/\">See the reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card tzl-faq\" id=\"faq\">\n      <h2>Rooster and Snake compatibility: FAQ<\/h2>\n      <details><summary>Are Rooster and Snake compatible in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>Snake and Rooster share a recognized connection within the \u5df3\u9149\u4e11 Metal trio, commonly described in later BaZi as the \u5df3\u9149 half-combination (specifically a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408, joining metal&#8217;s birth stage \u5df3 and its peak \u9149). They are not a Six Harmonies pair, and these two branches alone do not complete the full trio \u2014 Ox is the third leg. They are also not named together in Six Conflicts, Six Harms, Punishments, or Mutual Breaks. This is a traditional symbolic connection within the branch-relationship framework, not a compatibility score or a verdict on a couple.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Why are Rooster and Snake grouped together?<\/summary><p>In the Four Pillars system, a Three Harmonies trio holds three stages of one element&#8217;s life cycle: birth (\u957f\u751f), peak (\u5e1d\u65fa), and tomb (\u5893). The metal trio is Snake (\u5df3, metal&#8217;s birth), Rooster (\u9149, metal&#8217;s peak), and Ox (\u4e11, metal&#8217;s storehouse). Snake and Rooster are the first two of those three \u2014 the rising half of the metal cycle \u2014 which is why the tradition groups them.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>What does &#8220;half-combination&#8221; (\u534a\u5408) mean for Rooster and Snake?<\/summary><p>A half-combination is when only two of a trio&#8217;s three branches are present. Snake and Rooster (\u5df3\u9149) is called a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 because \u5df3 supplies metal&#8217;s birth stage (\u957f\u751f) and \u9149 supplies its peak (\u5e1d\u65fa). That is different from \u9149\u4e11, which joins the peak (\u5e1d\u65fa) and the storage stage (\u5893) and is commonly called a \u65fa\u5893\u534a\u5408 \u2014 both include \u9149, so the peak branch by itself does not define the \u751f\u65fa label. The \u5df3\u9149 half-combination is still incomplete without Ox (\u4e11). This sorting is later and contemporary BaZi terminology; it names the structure the two branches form, not an outcome for two people.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Do Rooster and Snake clash in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>No. In Six Conflicts (\u516d\u51b2), Rooster clashes with Rabbit (\u536f\u9149\u51b2) and Snake clashes with Pig (\u5df3\u4ea5\u51b2) \u2014 not with each other. Rooster and Snake are also not paired in Six Harms or Mutual Breaks. Their only link across the seven schemes checked here is the shared metal Three Harmonies trio.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Is the January or early-February birthday a problem for this reading?<\/summary><p>It can be. Under the lunar-zodiac convention used here, the animal year changes at Chinese New Year (roughly January 21\u2013February 20, varying yearly), so a January or early-February birthday may belong to the previous animal year. Many BaZi practitioners instead use the exact moment of L\u00ecch\u016bn (around February 3\u20135) as the boundary. Births in that window should therefore be checked against the relevant year&#8217;s boundary and the convention being used.<\/p><\/details>\n      <details><summary>Is this page a substitute for a personalized reading?<\/summary><p>No. It explains the general cultural pattern for the Rooster-Snake pairing as a symbolic tradition \u2014 not a prediction, and not medical, financial, or relationship advice. For two specific birth charts, see the Couple Compatibility Report linked above.<\/p><\/details>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"next-steps\">\n      <h2>Where to go next<\/h2>\n      <div class=\"tzl-links\">\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-compatibility\/\"><strong>Compatibility Hub<\/strong>The full chart, calculator, and best\/worst matches for all 12 signs.<span>See the hub &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\"><strong>Three Harmonies<\/strong>All four trios and the birth-peak-tomb logic behind them.<span>Read Three Harmonies &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/compatibility-snake\/\"><strong>Snake Compatibility<\/strong>Snake&#8217;s full breakdown against all 12 signs.<span>Read Snake &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/compatibility-rooster\/\"><strong>Rooster Compatibility<\/strong>Rooster&#8217;s full breakdown against all 12 signs.<span>Read Rooster &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/tiger-horse-compatibility\/\"><strong>Tiger and Horse<\/strong>The fire trio&#8217;s birth-and-peak half \u2014 the same logic in another element.<span>Read Tiger-Horse &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n        <a class=\"tzl-link\" href=\"\/snake-monkey-compatibility\/\"><strong>Snake and Monkey<\/strong>A Snake pairing that runs on a different branch relationship.<span>Read Snake-Monkey &rarr;<\/span><\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n    <section class=\"tzl-card\" id=\"editorial-note\">\n      <h2>Editorial note<\/h2>\n      <p class=\"tzl-source-note\">The seven branch-relationship schemes checked here follow this site&#8217;s own reference pages: the metal Three Harmonies trio and the birth-peak-tomb (\u957f\u751f \/ \u5e1d\u65fa \/ \u5893) logic behind it follow the <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-three-harmonies\/\">Three Harmonies<\/a> reference page and the <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-elements\/\">five-element<\/a> framework; Six Conflicts, Six Harms, and the other pairings follow this site&#8217;s <a href=\"\/chinese-zodiac-enemies-and-friends\/\">enemies-and-friends<\/a> reference page. The Three Harmonies structure itself is documented in early sources: the Han-era <em>Huainanzi<\/em> (\u6dee\u5357\u5b50, 2nd century BCE), in its astronomy (\u5929\u6587) chapter, places metal&#8217;s stages at exactly these branches \u2014 <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u91d1\u751f\u65bc\u5df3\uff0c\u58ef\u65bc\u9149\uff0c\u6b7b\u65bc\u4e11\uff0c\u4e09\u8fb0\u7686\u91d1\u4e5f<\/span> (&#8220;metal is born at Si, strongest at You, ends at Chou; these three branches all belong to metal&#8221;) \u2014 the birth-peak-tomb pattern later formalized as \u4e09\u5408. The treatment of \u5df3\u9149 as a \u751f\u65fa\u534a\u5408 (&#8220;birth-and-peak half-combination&#8221;) and the ranking of half-combinations by relative strength are widely used in later and contemporary BaZi doctrine; this page does not present that later grading terminology as if it were stated in the early source quoted here. The \u6dee\u5357\u5b50 passage was verified directly against the Wikisource text of that chapter. The four directional groupings that underlie Three Meetings (\u5bc5\u536f\u8fb0 eastern Wood, \u5df3\u5348\u672a southern Fire, \u7533\u9149\u620c western Metal, \u4ea5\u5b50\u4e11 northern Water) are documented in the Ming-dynasty <em>Sanming Tonghui<\/em> (\u4e09\u547d\u901a\u6703). This page explains a cultural and classical lens on the Rooster-and-Snake pairing for interest and education. 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