Rooster Personality

The folk reading gives the rooster precision, candour and a strong sense of how things should be done. 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 rooster precision, candour and a strong sense of how things should be done. 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 candour is the trait the tradition most often remarks on, and it is the same quality that can read as bluntness.

The attributed traits follow the rooster's function as the timekeeper and its attributed five virtues. It is grouped under Metal (金) in the five-element system.