Sexagenary cycle · position 33 of 60
丙申
Yang Fire Monkey 丙申: 1956, 2016, 2076 Years & Na Yin
丙申 Bǐng–Shēn is pillar 33 of 60: Yang Fire over the Monkey’s Metal branch, with Na Yin Fire below the mountain 山下火. It names 1956, 2016, 2076 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 丙申
Fire below the mountain
Fire below the mountain gives light close to its setting rather than across a distant horizon. Beside a day pillar, it suggests expression that becomes meaningful through proximity: something modest in reach can still be vivid to those nearby. The image distinguishes local warmth from public brilliance, with shelter and limited visibility forming part of the same scene.
山下火
- English association
- Fire below the mountain
- Associated phase
- 火 Fire
- Shares this Na Yin
- 丁酉 Yin Fire Rooster
The 申 Shen coordinate
- Animal
- Monkey
- Branch polarity
- Yang
- Double hour
- 15:00–16:59
- Month opens at
- 立秋 Start of Autumn
- Direction
- West-southwest
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 申
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 丙 Bing as the reference stem.
- 01
庚
Primary interior stem
偏财 Indirect Wealth - 02
壬
Middle interior stem
七杀 Seven Killings - 03
戊
Residual interior stem
食神 Eating God
Where 丙申 returns
- Cycle position
- 33 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲午
- Stem stage at this branch
- 病 Sickness
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1956丙申
- 2016丙申
- 2076丙申
丙申 as a day pillar
Bing’s Fire is expansive and readily felt. Read through the Day Master, this image suggests vivid expression, direct engagement and an impulse to bring things into the open. Its intensity gives the interpretation movement and warmth. The surrounding chart helps distinguish a clear, sustained expression from heat that builds faster than it can find a useful outlet.
丙 above 申
Fire controls Metal in the five-phase controlling cycle. The day branch holds Geng 庚 (Indirect Wealth), Ren 壬 (Seven Killings), Wu 戊 (Eating God) relative to this Day Master.