Fire horse

丙午

The fire horse or fire horse ( Bingwu , Chinese  丙午 , Pinyin bǐngwǔ , or Japanese ひ の え う ま Hinoe uma ) is the 43rd year of the Chinese calendar (see table). It is a term from the field of Chinese astrology and describes those lunar years that are linked by a connection of the third heavenly stem ( amm , bǐng , element fire and yang ) with the seventh earth branch ( 午 , wǔ ), symbolized by the horse ( 馬  /  马 , mǎ ) are characterized.

60-year cycle ( 干支 gānzhī)
阳 Yáng (odd years) 阴 Yin (even years) The 5 elements : wood fire earth metal water
Animal 地支	子	丑	寅	卯	辰	巳	午	未	申	酉	戌	亥
Year 天干 地支	1 甲 子	2 乙 丑	3 丙 寅	4 丁 卯	5 戊 辰	6 己 巳	7 庚 午	8 辛 Unfilled	9 壬 申	10 癸 酉	11 甲 戌	12 乙 亥
Year 天干 地支	13 丙 子	14 丁 丑	15 戊 寅	16 己 卯	17 庚 辰	18 辛 巳	19 壬 午	20 癸 Unfilled	21 甲 申	22 乙 酉	23 丙 戌	24 丁 亥
Year 天干 地支	25 戊 子	26 己 丑	27 庚 寅	28 辛 卯	29 壬 辰	30 癸 巳	31 甲 午	32 乙 Unfilled	33 丙 申	34 丁 酉	35 戊 戌	36 己 亥
Year 天干 地支	37 庚 子	38 辛 丑	39 壬 寅	40 癸 卯	41 甲 辰	42 乙 巳	43 丙 午	44 丁 Unfilled	45 戊 申	46 己 酉	47 庚 戌	48 辛 亥
Year 天干 地支	49 壬 子	50 癸 丑	51 甲 寅	52 乙 卯	53 丙 辰	54 丁 巳	55 戊 午	56 己 Unfilled	57 庚 申	58 辛 酉	59 壬 戌	60 癸 亥

According to the Chinese calendar , such a connection occurs every 60 years. The last Fire Horse year began in 1966 and lasted from January 21, 1966 to February 8, 1967 due to the deviation of the Chinese from the Gregorian calendar year .

In the area of ​​influence of Chinese astrology, which today is no longer limited to parts of the population in East Asia, but has also spread to the western world as a result of migration, the Fire Horse Years are considered to be particularly eventful in the good as well as especially in the bad sense, which is why, for example Great San Francisco earthquake in 1906 was associated with this constellation.

According to a traditional notion that is still widespread today, women who are born in a fire horse year bring harm to their own family and that of their husbands and are therefore particularly difficult to marry off. Therefore, according to a study by Kanae Kaku occurred in 1966 in Japan to a significant increase in the abortion rate of women and the mortality rate of newborns that as an indication of possible cases of by these superstitions motivated infanticide should be assessed. In 1966, the number of newborns in Japan also fell by around 500,000. This corresponds to a decrease of around 25% compared to the level of previous years. In the following year 1967 the old level was reached again.

Fire Horse Years

In the Chinese calendar cycle, the year of the fire horse 丙午 is the 43rd year. (at the beginning of the year wood snake 乙巳)

List of fire horse years in 60-year cycles (end of the cycle - when counting from the 1st year of Huángdì's government) (start of the cycle - when counting from the 61st year of Huángdì's government)
	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
0	2655 BC Chr.	2595 BC Chr.	2535 BC Chr.	2475 BC Chr.	2415 BC Chr.	2355 BC Chr.	2295 BC Chr.	2235 BC Chr.	2175 BC Chr.	2115 BC Chr.
10	2055 BC Chr.	1995 BC Chr.	1935 BC Chr.	1875 BC Chr.	1815 BC Chr.	1755 BC Chr.	1695 BC Chr.	1635 BC Chr.	1575 BC Chr.	1515 BC Chr.
20th	1455 BC Chr.	1395 BC Chr.	1335 BC Chr.	1275 BC Chr.	1215 BC Chr.	1155 BC Chr.	1095 BC Chr.	1035 BC Chr.	975 BC Chr.	915 BC Chr.
30th	855 BC Chr.	795 BC Chr.	735 BC Chr.	675 BC Chr.	615 BC Chr.	555 BC Chr.	495 BC Chr.	435 BC Chr.	375 BC Chr.	315 BC Chr.
40	255 BC Chr.	195 BC Chr.	135 BC Chr.	75 BC Chr.	15 BC Chr.	46	106	166	226	286
50	346	406	466	526	586	646	706	766	826	886
60	946	1006	1066	1126	1186	1246	1306	1366	1426	1486
70	1546	1606	1666	1726	1786	1846	1906	1966	2026	2086
Note: The consecutive number of the cycle results from the line number. added to the column no. Example: row 30 + column 5 = 35th cycle corresponds to 555 v. Chr.

literature

• Kanae Kaku: Increased induced abortion rate in 1966, an aspect of a Japanese folk superstition . In: Annals of Human Biology . 2, 2, 1975, ISSN  0301-4460 , pp. 111-115.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reiner Klingholz and Gabriele Vogt: Demographic new territory - Japan has to find answers to a shrinking and aging society faster than Germany . P. 11; Berlin Institute for Population and Development, 2013