沙中土 · Earth in the Sand

shā zhōng tǔ · the Na Yin of 丙辰 and 丁巳

沙中土 Earth in the Sand, shā zhōng tǔ, is the Na Yin of the pillars 丙辰 and 丁巳: 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 丙辰 or 丁巳 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

土 Earth

Pillars

丙辰丁巳

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

丙辰丁巳

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.