Double hour 5 of 12 · 時支
The Dragon hour
辰 Chen holds 07:00–08:59 on the modern civil clock. Tradition fitted the dragon to it as the hour dragons were said to fly and make the morning rain.
One branch · four linked coordinates
What stays fixed in the Dragon period
The clock selects one Earthly Branch. The same branch also carries a phase, compass direction and solar-term month; those links are structural coordinates, not extra personality labels.
- Hour branch辰 Chen
07:00–08:59
- Month opens清明 Qīngmíng
Clear and Bright
- DirectionEast-southeast
Branch sector 5 of 12
- Fixed phaseEarth
Phase carried by the branch
五鼠遁 · day stem sets hour stem
Five complete Dragon hour pillars are possible
The branch is fixed by the clock. The stem advances from the Day Master, so the ten day stems fall into five rule pairs and produce five possible hour pillars here.
- 01 · on 甲 Jia / 己 Ji days戊辰Yang Earth Dragon
- 02 · on 乙 Yi / 庚 Geng days庚辰Yang Metal Dragon
- 03 · on 丙 Bing / 辛 Xin days壬辰Yang Water Dragon
- 04 · on 丁 Ding / 壬 Ren days甲辰Yang Wood Dragon
- 05 · on 戊 Wu / 癸 Gui days丙辰Yang Fire Dragon
Two clock edges
The Dragon hour changes at 07:00 and after 08:59
A time earlier than 07:00 belongs to the preceding branch; a time after 08:59 belongs to the next. This site reads the local civil time entered and does not silently apply longitude, daylight-saving or apparent-solar-time corrections.
Known time
A recorded local time selects this branch and allows the hour stem to be derived from the day stem.
Unknown time
The hour pillar stays absent. Assuming noon or another default would invent two of the chart’s eight characters.
The same branch geometry at every scale
Its clash, harmony and trine do not change with the clock
The Dragon branch clashes with Dog, forms Six Harmony with Rooster, and belongs to the Water trine with Monkey and Rat and Dragon. These relationships come from fixed positions.