The tables
Why the pair is rated this way
The Dragon and the Rooster are one of the six harmonies (六合), the pairs the classical tables say combine. 辰 and 酉 are 5 steps apart on the circle of twelve, one yang and one yin, which is part of why they fit.
The Dragon is an earth sign and the Rooster a metal sign. In the generating cycle earth bears metal, so the Dragon is read as the one who supports and the Rooster as the one who grows from it.
The Dragon rules the spring month that starts around Apr 5 and the hours from 7 am to 9 am; the Rooster rules the autumn month that starts around Sep 8 and the hours from 5 pm to 7 pm.
For comparison, the Dragon's harmony partner is the Rooster and its trine partners are the Monkey and the Rat; the Rooster's harmony partner is the Dragon and its trine partners are the Snake and the Ox.
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In love, friendship and work
Traditionally the Dragon is confident, ambitious and magnetic, and the Rooster is observant, hard-working and frank. The Dragon tends to bring big ideas and look for admiration; the Rooster tends to bring honesty and order and look for appreciation.
In love, a six-harmony pair is the classic easy match: the two branches are said to combine into something new, so the bond tends to feel natural rather than negotiated.
As friends or co-workers the support tends to run one way, so it helps when the one who gets it gives something back.
Years
Which years are these animals?
Dragon years: 1952 (Water Dragon), 1964 (Wood Dragon), 1976 (Fire Dragon), 1988 (Earth Dragon), 2000 (Metal Dragon), 2012 (Water Dragon), 2024 (Wood Dragon).
Rooster years: 1957 (Fire Rooster), 1969 (Earth Rooster), 1981 (Metal Rooster), 1993 (Water Rooster), 2005 (Wood Rooster), 2017 (Fire Rooster), 2029 (Earth Rooster).
21 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Dragon years.
12 of the idols with a Bias Match idol page were born in Rooster years.
Your pair
Check two birth years
A zodiac year starts in late January or February, not on January 1: Chinese New Year calendars switch at Lunar New Year, and saju switches at Lichun, around February 4. If you were born in January or early February, you may belong to the year before.
Beyond the birth year
On Bias Match the animal that counts most is not the birth year but the day branch, the animal in each person's day pillar. If two people's day branches are Dragon (辰) and Rooster (酉), the compatibility calculator scores that check as a full plus, next to five other checks.
The text is fixed sentence templates filled in with the classical relation tables built into the Bias Match engine; no AI model generates or rewrites it. For entertainment only: the zodiac describes old patterns, not what will happen between two people.