Bing Shen 丙申
Red Monkey · The evening sun coloring the west
Yang Fire — the blazing sun. You are seated on the metal energy you control — a sense of the practical world lies underfoot.
Energy folding inward. Sensitivity and empathy deepen here — the mind runs busier than the body.
Money in motion is seated in your inner room. Resourcefulness, scale and activity are strong here — and so is the width of what comes and goes.
The stems concealed inside 申 (Monkey). A branch is not one single energy — it holds this mixture, in these proportions across a 30-day month.
The evening sun colouring the west — the gift of using the end of the day most beautifully. A strong sense of finish and aesthetics, and a peak that is often read as arriving late.
Save the Red Monkey card to PinterestFrequently asked
How do I know if I have the Bing Shen day pillar?
Your day pillar is the stem-branch pair governing the day you were born — Bing Shen (丙申) 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 Shen day pillar like?
Red Monkey — the image traditionally attached to it is "The evening sun coloring the west". Your Day Master 丙 (Yang Fire — the blazing sun) sits on 申, the Monkey, which carries Metal. In the twelve-stage cycle that position reads as Ailing, and the seated Ten God is Indirect Wealth.
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. 丙申 is romanised Bing Shen from Mandarin and byeongsin 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 Monkey (申)
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.