Earth Snake
Jǐ Sì, yin
- Stem
- 己 earth, yin
- Branch
- 巳 snake
- 納音
- 大林木 Wood of the Great Forest
- Years
- 1929, 1989, 2049
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, and 己巳 has the fire below: 巳, the Snake, is a fire branch and 己 is yin earth. The branch generates the stem. 1929 and 1989 are the two most recent past cases.
Wood of the Great Forest is the 納音 shared with 戊辰. The handbook's point is abundance at the right time, a forest taken as wood at its fullest. Fire and earth are what the year is built from, and the name's wood reflects where it falls among the sixty.
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)
Retrieved 2026-11-09
The English here is our own plain wording, not a translation of a single source.