Time per Constellation _ Timetable per Constellation

What are the dates of the twelve constellations?

Aries: March 21~ April 19?

Taurus: April 20th to May 20th.

Gemini: May 2 1 ~ June 21.

Cancer: June 22nd to July 22nd.

Leo: July 23rd to August 22nd.

Virgo: August 23rd to September 22nd.

Libra: September 23rd ~ 65438+1October 23rd.

Scorpio: 65438+1October 24th ~165438+1October 22nd.

Sagittarius:165438+1October 23rd to 65438+February 2nd1

Capricorn: 65438+February 22 ~ 65438+ 10/9.

Aquarius: 65438+1October 20th to February 18.

Pisces: February19 ~ March 20th.

Extended data

The twelve constellations were introduced into China in the Sui Dynasty.

The name of the zodiac was in the Babylonian era. The Babylonians divided the whole zodiac into 12 segments from the vernal equinox, each segment was called a "palace", and each segment was named after its constellation, called the "zodiac". These concepts were later absorbed by the ancient Greeks. Around A.D., the concept of "Zodiac" was introduced from Greece to India, and was introduced to China with Buddhist scriptures in the 6th century.

At present, the earliest document about the Chinese translation of the names of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals is the Tibetan Sutra of the Big House Waiting for Japan, which was translated from Sanskrit by the Tianzhu mage Nalantiyeshe in the early years of Emperor Yangdi.

Translate "Aries" and "Taurus" into "special sheep" and "special cow", and "special" means "male"; "Twin uterus" is interpreted as a man and a woman, which is the association of "willing to be a pair of birds in the sky", so it is translated as "two birds"; Sagittarius Palace is an archery model of half man and half horse. The original Sanskrit is "bow", so it is translated as "shooting".

"Aquarius" is the image of a person tilting the water bottle, so it is translated as "water container"; As for the animal image of sheep's fishtail, it is called "grinding exhaustion", which is a transliteration of Sanskrit makara (later changed to Jie, a castrated sheep), and it is the only constellation in 88 constellations that retains transliteration.

By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the translated names of the zodiac were basically stable, except for "Yin and Yang Jia" and "Shuang Nv", all the other names were exactly the same as the current names. It was not until Kang Youwei's Tian Lun that "Yin and Yang Family" and "Twin Daughters" were translated into "Gemini" and "Virgin" respectively, which were closer to the modern names.

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