山下火 · Fire at the Foot of the Mountain

shān xià huǒ · the Na Yin of 丙申 and 丁酉

山下火 Fire at the Foot of the Mountain, shān xià huǒ, is the Na Yin of the pillars 丙申 and 丁酉: a Fire 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 丙申 or 丁酉 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

火 Fire

Pillars

丙申丁酉

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

丙申丁酉

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.