松柏木 · Pine and Cypress Wood

sōng bǎi mù · the Na Yin of 庚寅 and 辛卯

松柏木 Pine and Cypress Wood, sōng bǎi mù, is the Na Yin of the pillars 庚寅 and 辛卯: 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 庚寅 or 辛卯 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

庚寅辛卯

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

庚寅辛卯

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.