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Na Yin Wood of Mulberry and Cudrania (桑柘木): the image of a pillar pair

Na Yin: Wood of Mulberry and Cudrania (桑柘木)

Na Yin assigns a poetic image to each consecutive pair of stem-branch combinations. "Wood of Mulberry and Cudrania" (Sang Zhe Mu) belongs to the pairs 壬子 and 癸丑.

How Na Yin is used

Traditional readers use Na Yin as a texture layer — an image for the quality of a pillar pair — rather than as a prediction. Different schools weight it differently.

Where you can see it

Build a chart on MingLens to see the Na Yin of your year pillar and check whether "Wood of Mulberry and Cudrania" appears in your structure.

Boundary

Na Yin images are cultural vocabulary, not statements of fact about a person.

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