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You&#8217;re a Water Ox &#8212; but only if your birthday falls on February 6, 1913 or later.<\/strong> The Ox year ran from February 6, 1913 through January 25, 1914.<\/p>\n  <p>The boundary sits tight this year. Start-of-Spring landed on February 4, just two days before the lunar new year on February 6 &#8212; and the animal in question is the one that old custom tied to that exact day, the spring ox. We sort the dates out first.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>1913 Chinese Zodiac Sign: The Quick Answer<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"tzl-card-grid two\">\n    <div class=\"tzl-card\">\n      <span class=\"label\">Jan 1 &#8211; Feb 5, 1913<\/span>\n      <strong>Water Rat<\/strong>\n      <p>Still the 1912 zodiac year, which did not close until February 5. A birthday in January or the first days of February 1913 lands here, in Rat, not Ox.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"tzl-card\">\n      <span class=\"label\">Feb 6, 1913 &#8211; Jan 25, 1914<\/span>\n      <strong>Water Ox<\/strong>\n      <p>The 1913 zodiac year, stem-branch <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7678\u4e11<\/span>. The far end matters too: a child born in the first weeks of 1914, up to January 25, is still a Water Ox, not yet a Wood Tiger.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>1913 at a glance<\/h2>\n  <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n    <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Detail<\/th><th>1913<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr><td>Zodiac animal<\/td><td>Ox (\u725b ni\u00fa)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Element<\/td><td>Water (Yin)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Stem-branch<\/td><td><span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7678\u4e11 (gu\u01d0 ch\u01d2u)<\/span><\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Exact dates<\/td><td>February 6, 1913 &#8211; January 25, 1914<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Sign before<\/td><td>Water Rat (until February 5, 1913)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Sign after<\/td><td>Wood Tiger (from January 26, 1914)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Age in 2026 (if born during calendar year 1913)<\/td><td>112 or 113<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Traditional allies<\/td><td>Snake, Rooster (trine), Rat (six-harmony)<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>Clash sign<\/td><td>Goat<\/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 early February 1913?<\/h3>\n      <p>On the lunar-year convention this page uses &#8212; the standard for looking up a birth-year sign &#8212; the Ox year runs from February 6, 1913 to January 25, 1914. Anyone born between January 1 and February 5, 1913 is a Water Rat carried over from 1912. The same rule holds at the closing end: a birth in early 1914, up to January 25, still counts as a 1913 Water Ox rather than a Wood Tiger.<\/p>\n      <p>The solar boundary sits close this year. Start of Spring (<span class=\"tzl-cn\">L\u00ecch\u016bn<\/span>) fell on February 4, 1913, two calendar days before the lunar new year on February 6 &#8212; both dates recorded in the Hong Kong Observatory&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hko.gov.hk\/en\/gts\/time\/calendar\/pdf\/files\/1913e.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1913 almanac<\/a>. Many BaZi practitioners take L\u00ecch\u016bn, rather than the lunar new year, as the boundary. February 5 therefore falls clearly in the Water Ox year under the solar convention while remaining a Water Rat under the lunar convention used on this page. A February 4 birth requires 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 Water Ox actually is<\/h2>\n  <p>&#8220;Ox&#8221; fixes the animal; the element fixes the year. The twelve animals and the five elements run on separate wheels, and Water meets Ox only once in every sixty years. 1913 is written <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7678\u4e11 (gu\u01d0 ch\u01d2u)<\/span>, a Yin Water year. The name carries a small tension: the stem \u7678 is water, the branch \u4e11 belongs to earth, and in the five-element cycle earth dams water. So the year&#8217;s water sits against the earth beneath it &#8212; a holding relation rather than a flowing one, stem and branch braced against each other instead of one feeding the next.<\/p>\n  <p>In folklore the Ox is the plodder that finishes: patient, dependable, slow to complain, the animal that took second place in the Great Race only because the Rat rode across the river on its back and hopped off at the line. Water is said to soften the Ox&#8217;s proverbial stubbornness &#8212; the same steadiness, but readier to bend and more reflective than a plain Ox. Read that as the sketch tradition offers, not a finding about anyone. Plenty of people born in 1913 fit none of it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>The ox that opens spring<\/h2>\n  <p>Of the twelve animals, the Ox is the one bound by custom to the very term that sets this year&#8217;s boundary. In many parts of China, Start of Spring &#8212; <span class=\"tzl-cn\">L\u00ecch\u016bn<\/span> &#8212; was traditionally marked by <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u97ad\u6625\u725b (bi\u0101n ch\u016bn ni\u00fa)<\/span>, the whipping of the spring ox. An ox figure, often modelled in clay or paper, was ceremonially struck to mark the opening of the plowing season and to carry hopes for a good harvest (<a href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/news\/202502\/03\/content_WS67a02adac6d0868f4e8ef52f.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhua<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworldofchinese.com\/2021\/02\/the-ox-in-myth-and-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The World of Chinese<\/a>).<\/p>\n  <p>So the solar term that decides whether an early-February 1913 birth reads as Ox or Rat is also the day the farming year was handed, by custom, to the ox. For a Water Ox year that opened just two days after L\u00ecch\u016bn, the overlap is hard to miss. It is a folk practice rather than a rule about the year, but it is the kind of tie that makes the Ox sit differently against the calendar than the other eleven signs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>The pillar 1913 shares with 1973<\/h2>\n  <p>The stem-branch of 1913, <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7678\u4e11<\/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:<\/p>\n  <div class=\"tzl-table-wrap\">\n    <table class=\"tzl-table\">\n      <thead><tr><th>Water Ox year<\/th><th>Age in 2026 for calendar-year births<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n      <tbody>\n        <tr><td>1853<\/td><td>A nineteenth-century cohort; no longer living<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><strong>1913<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>112 or 113 years old<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1973-chinese-zodiac\/\">1973<\/a><\/td><td>52 or 53 years old<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n  <p>A person born during the 1973 Water Ox year carries the same <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7678\u4e11<\/span> pillar as someone born during the 1913 Water Ox year &#8212; the same stem and branch, one full sixty-year turn apart. Their ages and their lives are entirely different, but their place in the cycle is identical. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/water-ox-chinese-zodiac\/\">Water Ox element page<\/a> follows what that pairing is traditionally held to mean.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section\">\n  <h2>Traditional Ox pairings<\/h2>\n  <p>In the traditional groupings, the Ox forms a three-harmony trine with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-snake\/\">Snake<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-rooster\/\">Rooster<\/a>, pairs with the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-rat\/\">Rat<\/a> in six-harmony, and stands opposite the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-goat\/\">Goat<\/a> in the clash. These animal relationships are fixed, and the Water element does not change them; the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-ox\/\">Ox 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>1912<\/td><td>Water Rat<\/td><td>Feb 18, 1912 &#8211; Feb 5, 1913<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td><strong>1913<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Water Ox<\/strong><\/td><td>Feb 6, 1913 &#8211; Jan 25, 1914<\/td><\/tr>\n        <tr><td>1914<\/td><td>Wood Tiger<\/td><td>from Jan 26, 1914<\/td><\/tr>\n      <\/tbody>\n    <\/table>\n  <\/div>\n  <p>Notice how the opening date drifts: February 18 in 1912, February 6 in 1913, January 26 in 1914. The lunar new year wanders across a band of several weeks from one year to the next, which 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\/1912-chinese-zodiac\/\">1912 Water Rat<\/a> before it and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1914-chinese-zodiac\/\">1914 Wood Tiger<\/a> after &#8212; and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/year-of-the-ox\/\">Ox animal guide<\/a> follows the five elements through every Ox year.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"tzl-section tzl-faq\">\n  <h2>1913 Chinese zodiac: common questions<\/h2>\n  <details><summary>What is the Chinese zodiac sign for 1913?<\/summary><p>1913 is an Ox year &#8212; the Water Ox &#8212; for anyone born on or after February 6, 1913.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>What are the exact 1913 Water Ox dates?<\/summary><p>February 6, 1913 to January 25, 1914. Anything earlier in 1913 belongs to the Water Rat year of 1912.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>What element is 1913 in the Chinese zodiac?<\/summary><p>Water. The full stem-branch name is \u7678\u4e11 (gu\u01d0 ch\u01d2u), a Yin Water year.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>Is everyone born in 1913 a Water Ox?<\/summary><p>No. Births from January 1 to February 5, 1913 fall in the previous Water Rat year. And someone born in early 1914, up to January 25, is still a 1913 Water Ox.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>How does Start of Spring affect the 1913 boundary?<\/summary><p>Start of Spring fell on February 4, 1913, while the lunar new year began on February 6. February 5 counts as Water Ox under the solar convention but remains Water Rat under the lunar convention used on this page. A February 4 birth requires 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 1913 Water Ox pillar?<\/summary><p>The \u7678\u4e11 Water Ox pillar returns every sixty years: 1853, 1913 and 1973. A person born during the 1973 Water Ox year shares the exact stem-branch with someone born during the 1913 Water Ox year.<\/p><\/details>\n  <details><summary>How old is someone born in 1913 in 2026?<\/summary><p>112 or 113 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 1913?<\/h2>\n  <p>A public page stops at the shared facts. If what brought you here is a grandparent&#8217;s or great-grandparent&#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-ox\/\"><span>The animal<\/span><b>Ox Guide<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/1973-chinese-zodiac\/\"><span>Same pillar<\/span><b>1973 Water Ox<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/water-ox-chinese-zodiac\/\"><span>The element<\/span><b>Water Ox<\/b><\/a>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/compatibility-ox\/\"><span>Compatibility<\/span><b>Ox 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 6, 1913 start, the January 25, 1914 close, the February 4 Start of Spring, and the <span class=\"tzl-cn\">\u7678\u4e11 (gu\u01d0 ch\u01d2u)<\/span> stem-branch &#8212; can be checked against the Hong Kong Observatory almanac or any sexagenary table. The spring-ox custom is documented folk practice, cited above. Everything touching character, compatibility and fortune is symbolic tradition, shared for cultural interest. 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The boundary sits tight this year. Start-of-Spring landed on February &#8230; <a title=\"Zodiaque chinois 1913 : l&#039;ann\u00e9e du B\u0153uf d&#039;Eau, dates et signification\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thezodiaclore.com\/fr\/1913-chinese-zodiac\/\" aria-label=\"En savoir plus sur 1913 Chinese Zodiac: Water Ox Year, Dates &#038; Meaning\">En savoir plus<\/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":"1913 Chinese Zodiac: Water Ox Year, Dates & Meaning","rank_math_description":"Born in 1913? You are a Water Ox (\u7678\u4e11). 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