路旁土 · Earth by the Roadside

lù páng tǔ · the Na Yin of 庚午 and 辛未

路旁土 Earth by the Roadside, lù páng tǔ, is the Na Yin of the pillars 庚午 and 辛未: an Earth 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 庚午 or 辛未 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

土 Earth

Pillars

庚午辛未

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

庚午辛未

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.