Wood Horse
Jiǎ Wǔ, yang
- Stem
- 甲 wood, yang
- Branch
- 午 horse
- 納音
- 沙中金 Gold in the Sand
- Years
- 1954, 2014, 2074
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
Picture gold mixed in with sand yet distinct from it, set in fire and tempered by fire. That is how Sanming Tonghui describes 沙中金, Gold in the Sand, the 納音 of 甲午. The name says metal while the stem says wood, because a 納音 labels this place among the sixty by its own reckoning.
甲 is yang wood and 午, the Horse, is fire. Since wood feeds fire, the stem supplies the branch in the generating cycle. 1954 and 2014 are both 甲午 years.
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.