Nayin 纳音 · sound element #11 of 30
Water that renews as fast as it is drawn: a small source that never runs out.
| Term 纳音 | 泉中水 — Spring Water (quan zhong shui) |
|---|---|
| Element of the image | 水 Water |
| Pillars it covers | 甲申、乙酉 — Jiashen and Yiyou (pair #11 of 30) |
| Spelling in our edition | 井泉水 — the quotations below keep the book's characters rather than ours |
甲申乙酉，气息安静，子母同位，出而不穷，汲而不竭，乃曰井泉水
Why the name: Jiashen and Yiyou — the qi rests quiet, mother and child share a seat, it issues without exhausting and is drawn without running dry; hence Well Spring Water.
井泉水者，寒泉清冽，取养不穷，八家凿之以同饮，万民资之以生活
Well Spring Water: a cold spring clear and sharp, giving nourishment without end; eight households sink it to drink from together, and the ten thousand people rely on it to live.
Shen and You are autumn metal — the season that produces water. 子母同位, mother and child in the same seat, is the derivation naming that directly: the source and the thing sourced sit together, which is why the flow does not deplete.
Note the corpus spelling. Our tables print 泉中水; San Ming Tong Hui writes 井泉水, Well Spring Water, and the quoted passages above use the book's spelling. The image is a well, not a wild spring — something a community shares and maintains, which is what 八家凿之以同饮 is describing.
Sources: 《三命通会》 (San Ming Tong Hui, Ming dynasty, 万民英) — chapters 论纳音取象 and 释六十甲子性质吉凶. Both passages above are quoted from a local plain-text edition and checked character by character by a test before this page can ship. Translations are ours.
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