Pair 16 of the sixty

Earth Rabbit己卯

City-Wall Earth, the Na Yin of this pair.

Na Yin
City-Wall Earth
Stem
己 Ji
Branch
卯 Rabbit
Element
Earth
己卯
Stem above, branch below

戊寅己卯城頭土者天干戊巳屬土寅為艮山土積而為山故曰城頭土也

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

1939 · 1999 · 2059

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