Monkey Personality

The folk reading gives the monkey quickness, humour and a short attention for anything that stops being interesting. A folk characterisation following the animal's reputation, treated as general temperament rather than individual.

It is one factor among several in the traditional system. The folk reading gives the monkey quickness, humour and a short attention for anything that stops being interesting. The year animal is the coarsest of the four pillars — the month, day and hour carry equal weight, and the classical sources never read the year alone. The wit and the restlessness are the same quality described from two sides, as with the horse.

The attributed traits follow the animal's observed cleverness and the narrative figure's restlessness. It is grouped under Metal (金) in the five-element system.