大林木 · Wood of the Great Forest

dà lín mù · the Na Yin of 戊辰 and 己巳

大林木 Wood of the Great Forest, dà lín mù, is the Na Yin of the pillars 戊辰 and 己巳: a Wood 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 戊辰 or 己巳 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

木 Wood

Pillars

戊辰己巳

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

戊辰己巳

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.