Sexagenary cycle · position 48 of 60
辛亥
Yin Metal Pig 辛亥: 1911, 1971, 2031, 2091 Years & Na Yin
辛亥 Xīn–Hài is pillar 48 of 60: Yin Metal over the Pig’s Water branch, with Na Yin Hairpin and bracelet metal 钗钏金. It names 1911, 1971, 2031, 2091 and returns as a day pillar every 60 days.
What is fixed inside 辛亥
Hairpin and bracelet metal
Hairpin and bracelet metal has already been worked into an ornament with a chosen shape and a place on the body. Its day-pillar symbolism concerns refinement, considered expression and the meeting of material with form. Unlike the sword edge, its definition is not made for cutting; detail becomes a way of making a particular style visible.
钗钏金
- English association
- Hairpin and bracelet metal
- Associated phase
- 金 Metal
- Shares this Na Yin
- 庚戌 Yang Metal Dog
The 亥 Hai coordinate
- Animal
- Pig
- Branch polarity
- Yin
- Double hour
- 21:00–22:59
- Month opens at
- 立冬 Start of Winter
- Direction
- North-northwest
Inside this branch · 藏干
Hidden stems carried by 亥
The relationship name below compares each interior stem with 辛 Xin as the reference stem.
- 01
壬
Primary interior stem
伤官 Hurting Officer - 02
甲
Middle interior stem
正财 Direct Wealth
Where 辛亥 returns
- Cycle position
- 48 / 60
- Ten-position decade · 旬
- 甲辰
- Stem stage at this branch
- 沐浴 Bath
Annual returns in the supported range
Every occurrence from 1901 through 2099 is shown.
- 1911辛亥
- 1971辛亥
- 2031辛亥
- 2091辛亥
辛亥 as a day pillar
Xin draws attention to fineness, clarity and the conditions that allow a material’s qualities to show. A Day Master reading can explore discernment, sensitivity to detail and care over how something is expressed. The image also contains a tension between refinement and excessive scrutiny. Surrounding Earth, Water and Fire shape how the classical texts develop this theme.
辛 above 亥
Metal generates Water, so the visible stem feeds the branch phase. The day branch holds Ren 壬 (Hurting Officer), Jia 甲 (Direct Wealth) relative to this Day Master.