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Modern Star, a short dinnerware china set made by the Homer Laughlin China Company in association with the Taylor, Smith and Taylor Pottery Company and Quaker Oats Company. Modern Star is not a shape but a short dinnerware set with an “atomic style” starburst pattern prominent on each piece of the dinnerware.
A modern star chart showing the traditional Chinese asterisms, with the 28 mansions indicated on the border of each hemisphere. [citation needed] The Twenty-Eight Mansions are grouped into Four Symbols, each associated with a compass direction and containing seven mansions. The names and determinative stars are: [9] [10]
Buddhism first reached China during the Eastern Han dynasty, and translation of Indian works on astronomy came to China by the Three Kingdoms era (220–265 CE). However, the most detailed incorporation of Indian astronomy occurred only during the Tang dynasty (618–907), when a number of Chinese scholars—such as Yi Xing —were versed in ...
The largest lake in northern China, although growing urban and agricultural water use after 1950 reduced its size from more than 1000 km 2 to almost nothing in the 1980s. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] It is presently composed of 143 smaller lakes around 366 km 2 and is used for nature tourism , [ 33 ] but its size is now maintained by unsustainable use of ...
The guest star reported by Chinese astronomers in 1054 and cited in the highlighted passages in this text from 1414 is identified as SN 1054. In Chinese astronomy, a guest star (Chinese: 客星; pinyin: kèxīng) is a star which has suddenly appeared in a place where no star had previously been observed and becomes invisible again after some time.
'Three Star Mound') is an archaeological site and a major Bronze Age culture in modern Guanghan, Sichuan, China. Largely discovered in 1986, [2] following a preliminary finding in 1927, [3] archaeologists excavated artifacts that radiocarbon dating placed in the 12th-11th centuries BC. [4]
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According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Ursa Major is located in the constellation called the Three Enclosures (三垣, Sān Yuán). The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 大熊座 ( dà xióng zuò ), meaning "the big bear constellation".