1957 Chinese Zodiac: Fire Rooster

01 / Check the boundary

What is my Chinese zodiac if I was born in 1957?

Two zodiac signs fall within the Gregorian year 1957. Choose the row containing your birthday. These dates include both the first and last day; the animal changes at Chinese New Year, not on January 1.

1957 birth dates and zodiac signs
Gregorian birthday	Animal & year element
January 1, 1957 – January 30, 1957	Fire Monkey 猴
January 31, 1957 – December 31, 1957	Fire Rooster 鸡

The full 1957 lunar year continues into 1958, through February 17, 1958. A birthday on January 30, 1957 belongs to the Monkey; a birthday one day later, on January 31, 1957, belongs to the Rooster.

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02 / The story of the year

What kind of Rooster is 1957?

1957 is a Fire Rooster year. Its stem-branch name is 丁酉 (dīng-yǒu): the heavenly stem 丁 carries yin fire, and the earthly branch 酉 corresponds to the Rooster.

Zodiac animal: Rooster · 鸡
Year element: Fire
Stem & branch: 丁酉 · dīng-yǒu
Lunar year length: 383 days

Rooster personality in tradition

The Rooster is linked with watchfulness and the arrival of a new day. Jī is the general Chinese word for chicken.

The phrase “attentive & expressive” describes a traditional association with this animal, rather than a rule about everyone born in 1957. The year element is one part of the calendar; it does not establish a person's complete five-elements or Bāzì chart.

我属鸡。

Wǒ shǔ jī. “I was born in the Year of the Rooster.”

Rooster compatibility in folklore

Rooster, Ox and Snake form a traditional harmony group of three. Rabbit sits opposite Rooster, six places away in the twelve-animal cycle. These describe symbolic positions, not evidence of who will make a good partner.

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03 / A closer look at the dates

1957 lunar calendar at a glance

This Rooster year contains 13 lunar months and 383 days. Month 8 repeats as a leap month, starting September 24, 1957. A leap month keeps the same animal and year element. The table follows the full lunar year, so its final months extend into 1958.

Lunar months of 1957: Gregorian start and end dates
Lunar month	Begins	Ends	Days
Month 1	January 31, 1957	March 1, 1957	30
Month 2	March 2, 1957	March 30, 1957	29
Month 3	March 31, 1957	April 29, 1957	30
Month 4	April 30, 1957	May 28, 1957	29
Month 5	May 29, 1957	June 27, 1957	30
Month 6	June 28, 1957	July 26, 1957	29
Month 7	July 27, 1957	August 24, 1957	29
Month 8	August 25, 1957	September 23, 1957	30
Leap month 8	September 24, 1957	October 22, 1957	29
Month 9	October 23, 1957	November 21, 1957	30
Month 10	November 22, 1957	December 20, 1957	29
Month 11	December 21, 1957	January 19, 1958	30
Month 12	January 20, 1958	February 17, 1958	29

04 / Follow the cycle

Other Years of the Rooster

The Rooster returns every 12 years; the same Fire Rooster combination returns every 60. These are the other Rooster years in our 1901–2100 directory. Their New Year dates differ, so open a year to check its exact birthday boundary.

1909Earth Rooster 1921Metal Rooster 1933Water Rooster 1945Wood Rooster 1969Earth Rooster 1981Metal Rooster 1993Water Rooster 2005Wood Rooster 2017Fire Rooster 2029Earth Rooster 2041Metal Rooster 2053Water Rooster 2065Wood Rooster 2077Fire Rooster 2089Earth Rooster

Sources & calendar convention

Dates are calculated from our local lunar-month dataset. The links below provide the Observatory’s calendar for this Gregorian year and an explanation of the stem-branch cycle. Cultural interpretations are introductory folklore, not predictions.