Ox and Wealth

The folk reading associates the ox with wealth accumulated slowly through continued work. Wealth attributions follow the animal's associated temperament and its traditional setting in the farming year.

It is one factor among several in the traditional system. The folk reading associates the ox with wealth accumulated slowly through continued work. The year animal is the coarsest of the four pillars — the month, day and hour carry equal weight, and the classical sources never read the year alone. The reading is about accumulation rather than acquisition — the same quality that defines the ox's career reading.

The association is with the ploughed field and the stored harvest rather than with trade or chance. It is grouped under Earth (土) in the five-element system.