Pair 11 of the sixty

Wood Dog甲戌

Mountaintop Fire, the Na Yin of this pair.

Na Yin
Mountaintop Fire
Stem
甲 Jia
Branch
戌 Dog
Element
Fire
甲戌
Stem above, branch below

甲戌乙亥山頭火者戌亥為天門火照天門其光至髙故曰山頭火也

Tao Zongyi, in Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu

Why this name

Each pair of neighbours in the cycle shares a Na Yin, a poetic element. The explanation below is Tao Zongyi’s, quoted in Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu.

Years with this pair

1934 · 1994 · 2054

Sources Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu, vol. 1, quoting Tao Zongyi.