Water Tiger
Rén Yín, yang
- Stem
- 壬 water, yang
- Branch
- 寅 tiger
- 納音
- 金箔金 Gold Leaf Metal
- Years
- 1902, 1962, 2022, 2082
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
Water feeds wood here, with the stem 壬 as yang water and the branch 寅, the Tiger, as wood. The stem generates the branch. The year 2022 was the most recent example, after 1962.
Gold Leaf Metal is the usual English for its 納音, and our only witness writes it 金泊金 in a variant spelling. Sanming Tonghui says metal survives here at the point of its exhaustion, its energy thin and soft as fine silk. Metal is missing from both stem and branch, as you would expect of a name given by position.
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 witness prints this name as 金泊金. 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.