Fire Dragon
Bǐng Chén, yang
- Stem
- 丙 fire, yang
- Branch
- 辰 dragon
- 納音
- 沙中土 Earth in the Sand
- Years
- 1916, 1976, 2036, 2096
Each listed year runs from its boundary to the next one, and it depends on the convention. Early dates in the calendar year can belong to the year before.
About this year
Fire makes earth, with the stem 丙 as yang fire and the branch 辰, the Dragon, as earth. The Fire Dragon year thus runs in the generating direction from stem to branch. Years of this type are 1976 and 2036.
Earth in the Sand, its 納音, happens to match the branch. Sanming Tonghui describes a point between stages, when the energy receives yang, growth has already passed and completion is still to come. Names of this kind are fixed by place in the sixty, so the stem stays fire whatever the label says.
Where this text comes from
The 納音 name follows the Wikisource text of 三命通會, volume 1, the only witness we found for the full set of names. The polarity of the stems and branches and the generating and overcoming cycles follow 五行大義 volume 2.
- 三命通會 卷一 (Wikisource 三命通會/卷一, SIMPLIFIED script as stored on Wikisource)
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- 五行大義 卷二 (Wikisource 五行大義/2, traditional script)
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The English here is our own plain wording, not a translation of a single source.