Bing Chen 丙辰
Red Dragon · The sun rising through dragon clouds
Yang Fire — the blazing sun. You are seated on the energy you produce, so your force flows outward rather than pooling.
Putting on the official robe. A strong wish to be recognised, and real push behind it.
The rice bowl is seated in your inner room. Appetite, ease of expression and an unhurried optimism are laid under this seat.
The stems concealed inside 辰 (Dragon). A branch is not one single energy — it holds this mixture, in these proportions across a 30-day month.
A sun rising through dragon clouds — it blazes when the stage is finally set. Large dreams and bright energy are the strengths, and the impatience before the clouds part is the hurdle.
Save the Red Dragon card to PinterestFrequently asked
How do I know if I have the Bing Chen day pillar?
Your day pillar is the stem-branch pair governing the day you were born — Bing Chen (丙辰) in this case. It rotates every day through a cycle of sixty, and the boundaries depend on solar terms and the 11pm zi-hour rule, so it is not something you can count by eye. Enter your birth date in our free reading and the engine computes it directly.
What is the Bing Chen day pillar like?
Red Dragon — the image traditionally attached to it is "The sun rising through dragon clouds". Your Day Master 丙 (Yang Fire — the blazing sun) sits on 辰, the Dragon, which carries Earth. In the twelve-stage cycle that position reads as Coming of age, and the seated Ten God is Output.
Does my day pillar tell me my whole chart?
No. The day pillar is two characters out of eight — your core axis, not the whole picture. The year, month and hour pillars, the balance of the five elements, and your decade luck all have to be laid on top before a reading means much. Treat a day-pillar page as the doorway, not the room.
Why is it called Jia Zi in Chinese and something else in Korean?
Same sixty-cycle, different reading of the same characters. 丙辰 is romanised Bing Chen from Mandarin and byeongjin from Korean, and Korean saju calls the day pillar ilju (일주). The calculation is identical; the interpretive traditions differ.
Other pillars with the same Day Master (丙)
Other pillars seated on the Dragon (辰)
The twelve-stage position, seated Ten God and hidden stems are computed by the Ioreum deterministic engine (ruleset ioreum-2026.07). The reading itself is interpretation from the day-pillar tradition, not verified science — we always tell you which part is calculation and which part is tradition.