Why are the stars in the sky called the Big Dipper?

The Big Dipper refers to Shu Tian, Tian Xuan, Celestial Pole, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Yaoguang in the constellation Ursa major.

The ancients associated these seven stars together and imagined them as barrels of wine in ancient times, hence the name Beidou. The Big Dipper appears in different directions in the sky in different seasons and at different times at night, so the ancients decided the seasons according to the direction pointed by bucket handle when he fainted for the first time.

In ancient society, our ancestors regarded Beidou and Polaris as a whole, which was called "the capital". The meter is located in the center of the rotation of the starry sky, and the stars revolve around it, as if the sky dominates everything. But our ancestors defined seasons and climate with the four fingers of Beidou, and Beidou became the maker of the order of heaven and earth. The long harvest in spring and summer and winter storage seem to follow the direction of Beidou, which has become the center of the metaplasia of everything in the world.

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A complete picture of 28 families was found on the lacquer box cover of Zeng Houyi's tomb unearthed in Suizhou, Hubei Province, which is the complete information of 28 families found so far. In the center of the picture is an eye-catching word "dou", surrounded by the names of 28 huts, with the black dragon in the east and the white tiger in the west, which is strikingly similar to Puyang's picture of a clam carving dragon and tiger.

The Big Dipper is the seven-star god worshipped by Taoism, that is, the "Big Dipper". However, in China culture, the worship of the stars including the Big Dipper has a long history, long before the formation of Taoism. Confucian etiquette also emphasizes offering sacrifices to the stars in the sky.

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