2001 Chinese zodiac
蛇 Metal Snake · yin
Born between 24 January 2001 and 11 February 2002: you are a Metal Snake. Born in 2001 but before 24 January 2001: your sign is that of 2000, the Metal Dragon.
The year
- New Year : 24 January 2001
- Ends : 11 February 2002
- Animal : Snake
- Element : Metal (yin)
The Metal element
determination, rigour, uprightness.
Each animal returns every twelve years with a different element: the same pair only comes back every sixty years.
In the sixty-year cycle
辛巳 xīn sì
Year 18 of the cycle. The same pair comes back in 1941 and 2061.
The Snake in one line
Wise and intuitive, it thinks long and strikes true.
Dates computed from the real positions of the Sun and Moon (NASA JPL DE440s ephemeris, Beijing time) under the rules of the Chinese calendar, and checked against published dates.