Tiger Personality

The folk reading gives the tiger confidence, directness and a low tolerance for being constrained. A folk characterisation following the animal's reputation. The tradition treats these as general temperament descriptions.

It is one factor among several in the traditional system. The folk reading gives the tiger confidence, directness and a low tolerance for being constrained. 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 same trait reads as courage from one side and impatience from the other — the tradition names both.

The attributed traits come from the animal's traditional role as the emblem of unauthorised power. It is grouped under Wood (木) in the five-element system.