Bing Yin 丙寅
Red Tiger · The morning sun that wakes the forest
Yang Fire — the blazing sun. You are seated on the wood energy that feeds you — there is something to lean on underfoot.
Newly born energy. It learns fast and grows easily, and it tends to receive care from the people around it without having to ask.
An unorthodox teacher sits in the inner room. Intuition and an original mind sit here — along with a head too busy for deep sleep.
The stems concealed inside 寅 (Tiger). A branch is not one single energy — it holds this mixture, in these proportions across a 30-day month.
A morning sun that wakes the forest — the room brightens simply because you are in it. Enormous energy at the start, and a matching tendency to leave the finishing to somebody else once the sun passes noon.
Save the Red Tiger card to PinterestFrequently asked
How do I know if I have the Bing Yin day pillar?
Your day pillar is the stem-branch pair governing the day you were born — Bing Yin (丙寅) 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 Yin day pillar like?
Red Tiger — the image traditionally attached to it is "The morning sun that wakes the forest". Your Day Master 丙 (Yang Fire — the blazing sun) sits on 寅, the Tiger, which carries Wood. In the twelve-stage cycle that position reads as Birth, and the seated Ten God is Indirect Resource.
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. 丙寅 is romanised Bing Yin from Mandarin and byeongin 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 Tiger (寅)
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.