How to check your star? What star are you?

How to check your own star Jiangnan snow has just passed, Ding You twelfth lunar month, the last full moon in the Year of the Rooster, looked at the sun, just in time for the eclipse. What is even more unusual is that the super moon, the blue moon and the brightness appeared on the same night, and such a grand March fusion has not appeared in 152 years.

It is foggy on weekdays, and only a waning moon can be seen shining around alone. The integration in March was also a bit red, with a wave of traffic.

But I don't know if you have noticed that the full moon has not recovered from the eclipse, and how many remnant stars flashed by in the dark moment of heaven and earth?

Finally, the star took advantage of the embarrassing moment of the bright moon to show off a little, and the star came out, like sand. Unfortunately, it still didn't penetrate the smog and compete for the rare limelight of the moon 152.

So, I won't mention the bright moon today. Let me talk about what everyone knows but can't understand-

Su Xing

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But before that, I ask, have you ever thought about why a month is called a month?

Yes, "a month" is closely related to the period of the moon.

The moon goes around the earth once, which is theoretically one month.

But the ancients never left the earth's surface and could only observe the changes of the moon every night to judge the date. After long-term observation, our ancestors found that the moon not only changed its phase, but also changed its position among stars in a certain period. The period when the moon returns to the same position in the star is called sidereal month.

The stars are too far away. From the naked eye on the earth, their relative positions are almost fixed, so they are called stars. Ancient ancestors recorded the trajectory of the moon with the stars as the reference.

The stars in the universe are as dense as the eyes of a needle. In order to better understand the stars, the ancestors used their imagination to imagine a number of stars as a figure, breaking the whole starry sky into parts, and every time the moon passed, it was a night. The name of a star depends on his image, and he is called what he looks like. For example, the four stars around Jisu are connected together like a dustpan facing the Milky Way.

▲ dustpan and jisu

The word "stay" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi means "stop". In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, it's like a person sleeping on a mat in a house. Its original intention is to stay and stay overnight.

Stars, in the eyes of the ancients, are the temporary residence of the moon in the sky.

In the stars and the moon, the moon has a place among the stars every night. A sidereal month is about 27.33 days, but the date can't be calculated by half a day, so the remainder 27 or integer 28 is generally taken, which means that the moon will change places 27 or 28 times in a sidereal month.

This is the reason for 28 nights.

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China's ancient ancestors began to observe and record astronomy very early.

There are eight eclipses recorded in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin and Shang Dynasties, all of which are inscriptions in Wuding period of Shang Dynasty, and they record five eclipses in Wuding period respectively.

Explanation:

Guihaibu, fighting for virginity: dying on the 10th? January.

Zhengzhen Qiuwei Cloth: Ten Days of Death? February.

Ghost Catwalk, (True): Ten Days of Death? March.

(1) 1111111111111111111119 May.

(Deck) Unknown, (Chastity): Ten-day (Death) Disaster?

Zhengzhen Qiuwei Cloth: Ten Days of Death? On the third day, there will be food in the next month. Smell. August.

Meaning:

Guiwei divination, Zhen people contend and ask: "Is there any disaster in the next ten days?" On the third day after divination, there was an eclipse. This is a field report. The time is in August.

In various ancient books and documents in the pre-Qin period, the names of some of the 28 constellations were recorded.

The Book of Songs Xiaoya Dadong wrote:

Look at the Milky Way on that day, sparkling and shining.

Look at the milky way in the sky, shining.

Three of the three, Vega, seven times a day.

Three Vega legs move seven times a day.

Even if the weaver girl is busy, she can't knit a stripe well.

Although Vega moves seven times a day,

But I can never weave beautiful patterns.

The morning glory is shiny, and the cart can't be pulled to load the box.

Look at the bright Altair, you can't pull the cart and pack the box.

Venus is called Venus in the East and Chang Gung in the West.

There are morning stars in the east and Geng stars in the west.

Biba star bends long and the net is on the road.

The star handle is bent very long, so put Zhang on the road.

The dustpan star is in the south, so you can't winnow the chaff.

There is a dustpan in the south, but rice bran can't be winnowed.

There is also a ladle, which can't be used to scoop wine.

In the north, there is a barrel like a wine barrel in the sky, but you can't scoop wine pulp.

It not only mentioned the names of five stars: female, cow, bi, dustpan and dou, but also described the image of each star.

"Zhou Li Kao Gong Ji" records that "women in their twenties have eight bows, such as stars." It means that the carriage is supported by 28 umbrella bows, symbolizing that 28 stars guard the sky.

The horse is 88.2 cm high and 78.8 cm long; The car is 95.2 cm high and 96.5 cm long. It consists of a chariot, a slave and a horse. The vehicle has two axles and each wheel has 16 spokes. The royal slave knelt down, holding the reins in both hands, with black and white eyes and a nose crown. The horse was painted red, white and black, with a pair of animal faces and a yoke around its neck.

In the tomb of Zeng Houyi in the early Warring States Period in the 5th century BC, a lacquer box cover was unearthed, which is the earliest cultural relic with a complete 28-night residence so far.

▲ Paint box cover of Zeng Houyi's tomb

The box cover is rectangular, with tenons around it, and a handle extends outward from each corner. The lid is arched with a rectangular button on each side of the top. The box cover is 82.8 cm long, 47 cm wide and 19.8 cm high. The exterior walls are painted red and black.

The cover is painted red and the bottom is painted black. The center uses a thick brush to write the word "dou" in seal script. Around the word, there are 28 ancient names of seal script, which are clearly written and arranged clockwise. The black dragon in the east and the white tiger in the west.

▲ The ancient name of the lacquer box cover of Zeng Houyi's tomb corresponds to 28 ancient names.

The earliest complete record of twenty-eight nights is Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals: "There are twenty-eight nights in a month, belonging to the genus, suburbs and Taoism."

Twenty-eight nights is the path, and the orbit of the moon begins at the Cape Night, ends at the Cape Night, and returns to the Cape Night.

Han Dynasty is the mature period of ancient astronomy in China. The documents of this period, such as Huainanzi and Historical Records, not only have detailed observation records of the twenty-eight places and planets such as the sun, the moon, the water, the gold, the wood and the earth, but also have many astronomical maps showing the stars in the tomb murals and relief stones of the Han Dynasty.

In the past 2022, a newly discovered brick tomb of the Han Dynasty in Jingbian, Shaanxi Province, unearthed a 28-star map for the first time, which contains four elements: star, asterisk, image and title. This is also the most complete map of 28 hotels discovered so far.

Two volumes of ancient star maps were unearthed in the caves of Mogao Grottoes. A volume of "All-sky Star Map" was cheated from the king by the Englishman Stan and is now in the British Library. The remaining volume is a fragmentary star map, which is now in the cultural center.

Among them, The All-Sky Star Map, also known as the "A Star Map", is a painted silk book with a length of 1.98 meters, which was painted in the middle of the Tang Dynasty (around 705 AD) and depicts more than 1.300 stars, including dark stars that are difficult to observe with the naked eye. Before the invention of the telescope, European countries had never mapped more than 1022 stars.

It is still a mystery how astronomers in ancient China observed so many stars at that time.

▲ "Star Map A" section

During this period, with the further understanding of astronomical phenomena by the ancients, the image of Twenty-eight Hostels became more and more artistic.

Zhang Sengyou, the "finishing touch", is a great painter in Nanliang, and no original works have been circulated. Only the Five Stars and Twenty-eight Dwellings copied by Liang Lingzan in the Tang Dynasty survived. In this painting, the painter depicts the image of twenty-eight lodges in his imagination.

This picture was originally divided into two volumes, with five stars and twenty-eight lodgings, five stars in front and twenty-eight lodgings behind. Now there are only five stars and twelve huts left. Make a picture for every star and every night, or make a female image, or an old man, or a teenager, or an animal head, or make a strange image. Each picture is preceded by a seal script description.

In the mural on the south wall of the tunnel in Cave 6 1 of Mogao Grottoes, the figure of 28 star officials is also used to represent 28 lodges.

▲ "Strong light in phase" mural in Yuan Dynasty

It is painted on the south wall of the tunnel in Cave 6 1 of Mogao Grottoes, and the dragon flag is inserted behind the car. Because it has the function of governing the nine lords, the twelve palaces and the twenty-eight mansions, it is surrounded by the nine Yao stars, and the image of the twenty-eight mansions is painted in the colorful clouds at the top of the picture.

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The zodiac originated in ancient Babylon and later spread to ancient Greece. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the zodiac was introduced into China along with the zodiac.

The division of the zodiac is similar to the principle of twenty-eight nights, so it is gradually absorbed by the traditional astronomical system in China.

The ecliptic is the track between stars observed by naked eyes in a year, which can be regarded as a great circle intersecting with the equator or the orbital plane of the earth.

The zodiac divides the zodiac into twelve equal parts, each equal part is 30 degrees, and records the beginning and end of the time when the sun enters each house. Choose a constellation in the zodiac to name the star palace. For example, on March 2 1 of the Gregorian calendar in the vernal equinox, the sun enters the ecliptic 0, and Grain Rain leaves the ecliptic 30 on April 20. The ancients defined the zodiac from 0 to 30 as an astrological palace, and then chose Aries in this astrological palace and named it Aries Palace.

In the mural on the top of Zhang Shiqing's tomb in Liao Dynasty in Hebei Province, there are signs of the zodiac and the star map of the twenty-eight nights.

The top of the tomb is a bronze mirror, which symbolizes the center of the sky. Painted around, the sun, the moon, the five stars and the big dipper are outside, the twenty-eight lodges are outside, and the twelve small circles are outside, with images of the twelve zodiac animals painted inside.

▲ Line drawing of murals on the top of Zhang Shiqing's tomb in Liao Dynasty, Hebei Province.

The 12 Zodiac and the 28 Zodiac continue to integrate and develop. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that Kang Youwei formally defined the names of the twelve constellations in his book Tan. The 28 Zodiacs and the 12 Zodiacs gradually disappeared, and the 12 Zodiacs were widely known and became a part of popular culture.

▲ Greek Zodiac and Numbers

The algorithm of modern twelve constellations is based on the Gregorian calendar birthday, and the time periods of constellations and stars coincide. In fact, the principle of the zodiac is to see which house of the zodiac the sun went to on the day you were born. For example, a person born on April 4 corresponds to Aries Palace from March 2 1 to April 20, so his corresponding constellation is Aries.

Do you understand the principle and find that the twelve constellations are actually very simple?

Twenty-eight nights is just as simple.

Because I have calculated the time period of each star for you, you only need to compare your own Gregorian birthday to see which star time period you are ~

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April 16 to April 29th, April 30th to May 12, May 13 to May 25th, May 26th to June 7th, June 8th to June 20th, June 2nd1to July 3rd, and July 4th to July 7th. The 5438+0 solar wing is from August 12 to August 24, ě n from August 25 to September 6, Ji m: o from September 7 to September 19, and kàng9 Qiang from September 20 to 10, and from June 3 to/kloc-. Spiral 65438+1 October 29th to165438+1October1October 65438+1October 65438+1October1to. 438+09 day cattle 12 20 to 10 day female 12 to 14 day deficiency 15 to 17 day danger 1.

PS:

This table is for reference only ~ Because there are actually many different algorithms for the twenty-eight nights, only the simplest and most common one is selected here: the star is defined according to the time when the sun passes through the position of the twenty-eight nights in a stellar year, so there is inevitably a certain error compared with other calculations.

▲ Comparison of Twelve Star Palace and Twenty-eight Hostels

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The above is about how to check your own stars, and it is about the sharing of the zodiac. I watched "What Stars Are You", I hope this will help everyone!