白蜡金 · White Wax Metal

bái là jīn · the Na Yin of 庚辰 and 辛巳

白蜡金 White Wax Metal, bái là jīn, is the Na Yin of the pillars 庚辰 and 辛巳: a Metal element with an image of its own, one of the thirty Na Yin of the sixty-pillar cycle. Any pillar of a chart, and any day in the almanac, that is 庚辰 or 辛巳 carries it.

Na Yin 纳音, the "received sound", gives each pair of pillars in the sixty-cycle an element and an image of its own. It is read alongside the elements of the stem and branch, not instead of them, and the element it names can differ from both.

The facts

Element

金 Metal

Pillars

庚辰辛巳

Each Na Yin covers two consecutive pillars of the sixty-cycle.

庚辰辛巳

Where you meet it

• Under each pillar in the Pro chart view.
• On every almanac day page, for the day pillar.

Na Yin is one layer among several. It adds an image to a pillar; it does not replace the elements of its stem and branch.