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Chinese name European constellation Number of stars Representing Legs: 奎: Andromeda/Pisces: 16: Possibly it is the rear legs or feet of the White Tiger. Alternatively, it was also seen as a wild boar. Outer Fence: 外屏: Pisces: 7: A fence to screen off the cesspit of Celestial Pigsty (Tiānhùn) Celestial Pigsty: 天溷: Cetus: 4: A manure ...
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The character 星 originally had a more complicated form: 曐, a phono-semantic character whose semantic portion, 晶, originally depicting three twinkling stars (three instances of the "sun" radical 日). The modern Chinese term for "constellation", referring to those as defined by the IAU system, is 星座 (xīng zuò).
A single-star asterism in the Legs mansion. Fù Lù became the official name Fulu for this star by approval of IAU on 30 June 2017 [7] 策 Cè: Whip Gamma Cassiopeiae [22] A single-star asterism in the Legs mansion. 土司空 Tǔ Sī Kōng: Master of Constructions Beta Ceti [22] Diphda Cetus: 屎 Shǐ: Excrement Mu Columbae [29] Columba
Kuimulang (Chinese: 奎木狼; lit. 'The Wood Wolf of Legs') is a deity in traditional Chinese spiritual beliefs. He is considered to be one of the 28 Mansions, which are Chinese constellations. These constellations are the same as those studied in Western astrology.
Chinese star maps (simplified Chinese: 星图; traditional Chinese: 星圖; pinyin: xīngtú) are usually directional or graphical representations of Chinese astronomical alignments. Throughout the history of China, numerous star maps have been recorded. This page is intended to list or show the best available version of each star map.
The map provides a graphical verification of the star observations, and are part of a series of pictures on one of the Dunhuang manuscripts. The astronomy behind the map is explained in an educational resource posted on the website of the International Dunhuang Project , where much of the research on the map has been done. [ 3 ]
According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Fornax is located within the western quadrant of the sky, The White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ). The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 天爐座 (tiān lú zuò), meaning "the heaven furnace constellation".