- Animal
- 🐖 Pig (猪)
- Element
- Metal 金 · Yin
- Stem & Branch
- 辛亥 · Xīn Hài
- Year starts
- January 27, 1971 (Lunar New Year)
- Year ends
- February 14, 1972
- Age in 2027
- turns 56
- 2027 Tai Sui
- Three Harmony with Tai Sui
The Metal Pig personality
A softer Pig with sharper edges: gracious, principled, and harder to sway.
The Metal Pig stands out from other Pig years by mixing the Pig’s natural warmth and generosity with Metal’s firmness, taste, and inner standards. Where some Pigs are easygoing to a fault, this one usually has stronger boundaries and a clearer sense of what feels right. Yin Metal adds polish rather than force: less noisy than Yang Metal, more selective, observant, and quietly exacting.
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Best matches and clashes
Six Harmony partner: 🐖 Pig & 🐅 Tiger. Three Harmony partners: 🐖 Pig & 🐇 Rabbit, 🐖 Pig & 🐐 Goat. Clash: 🐖 Pig & 🐍 Snake.
A Pig born in 1971 in the 2027 Fire Goat year
2027 is Three Harmony with Tai Sui for the Pig. See the month-by-month forecast in Pig horoscope 2027.
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What Chinese zodiac is 1971?
1971 is the Year of the Metal Pig (辛亥, Xīn Hài). It runs from Lunar New Year on January 27, 1971 to February 14, 1972.
What element is 1971 in Chinese astrology?
Metal (金), in its Yin form. The year's Heavenly Stem is 辛 and its Earthly Branch is 亥 (Pig).
Is someone born in January 1971 a Pig?
Born in January or early February 1971, before January 27, 1971? Then your sign is the Metal Dog of 1970.
Who is a Metal Pig compatible with?
Traditionally the Pig pairs best with the Tiger, Rabbit, Goat and finds the Snake most challenging.
What does 2027 mean for someone born in 1971?
2027 is the Fire Goat year. For the Pig it is Three Harmony with Tai Sui. A person born in 1971 turns 56 in 2027.
Dates are computed from the Chinese lunar calendar (Lunar New Year). Some BaZi practitioners start the year at Lichun (around February 4) instead. Updated 2026-11-05.