How much do you know about 12 constellation culture?

First, the rise and popular mode of constellation culture

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek astronomer Baccus divided the ecliptic into 12 segments, with the vernal equinox as 0, and every 30 houses (namely, the zero degree of the ecliptic) were named after the main constellations contained in each house at that time, namely, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Lion, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio and Sagittarius.

It is found that babies born when the earth moves to each bisector (constellation) always have some similar behavior characteristics and personality characteristics when they grow up. Some "wise men" connect these information in series, add the color of myth, connect everyone with the twelve constellations, summarize the characteristics of people in different constellations in personality, basic personality, health diseases, etc., predict the development trend of people in various constellations in terms of occupation, work, life, marriage and love (so-called fortune) in a period of time, and put forward "advice" suggestions to people. Constellation prediction and astrology have become an important part of western developed astrology. With the deepening of people's fascination with "constellations", blood types, zodiac signs and constellations are combined into more different types, which breeds a rich and colorful constellation culture.

I don't know when this ancient constellation culture began to become a fashion among teenagers in Chinese mainland, and quickly evolved into a popular cultural phenomenon. The magical functions such as constellation love, constellation pairing, horoscope divination and horoscope fortune, as well as tarot cards, psychological tests, Duke Zhou and other tests and algorithms, attract more and more teenagers to approach it and experience it with mysterious and changeable forms and various contents close to real life.

The rise and popular mode of constellation culture has typical characteristics of adolescent cultural communication. Facing the constellation knowledge with novel form and special content, its derivative content and cultural products, teenagers are deeply attracted by curiosity, and then actively participate in it.

The twelve constellations are the foundation and core of the constellation culture. According to the birth season, people are divided into twelve categories: experience (for example, through long-term observation, people in different constellations are found to have differences in physical development and personality characteristics, which has certain statistical significance), science (for example, the climatic environment and nutritional conditions of fetal development in different stages of pregnancy will affect people's innate quality to some extent) and fuzziness (that is, inaccurate or even ambiguous expressions are used), and people in different constellations are given to deal with issues such as occupation and money, love and marriage. It should be admitted that it is precisely because of the explanatory power of the culture of the twelve constellations on people's personality characteristics and life development that it gives people a "sense of science", which is also the reason why astrology has been enduring and developing continuously since ancient times.

For young people who are not deeply involved in the world, when they see the "accurate" interpretation of their personality characteristics, personality defects, health quality and even their future career, marriage and love, they feel "very reasonable" and "basically consistent", they can't help but believe in the "constellation", entrust their personal "destiny" to the constellation, and gradually rely on the "analysis" and "guidance" of their own lives by the constellation. Teenagers are highly interactive, and one person's emotion is everyone's emotion. A person who believes in "constellation" will drive his classmates and friends around him to understand constellation knowledge, believe in constellation prediction and get involved in constellation culture. Studies have shown that "campus constellation culture is generally only spread among primary groups (dormitories or close friends)", and teenagers' contact with constellation culture is mostly influenced by friends around them.

The popularity of constellation culture among teenagers should not be underestimated. According to the "Investigation Report on the Scientific Literacy of Contemporary Shanghai Teenagers" issued by the Shanghai Science and Education Communist Youth League Working Committee in March 2006, nearly a thousand respondents were 14? Among the 28-year-old teenagers, 2 1.99% completely believe in fortune telling, and teenagers who have read books and magazines such as horoscopes and divination account for 3/4 of the total survey.

Second, the psychological motivation of infatuation with constellation culture

Know yourself.

The mystery of the ancient Sphinx "Who am I" has been puzzling mankind since ancient Greece. Paying attention to oneself and understanding oneself has always been a problem that individuals have to pursue and solve in the process of development. "Only when a person knows himself thoroughly can he develop himself comprehensively and reasonably. This has important practical significance for growing teenagers. " Teenagers are in the development period of self-identity, and their self-awareness develops rapidly and tends to mature. They are eager to know more about their personality characteristics, such as personality, temperament, attitude and ability level.

The analysis and classification of people's personalities and numerology in different constellations by constellation culture meets the needs of teenagers' self-cognition to some extent. By looking up the corresponding constellation through the date of birth, we can get the general personality characteristics of the people in this constellation-constellation culture has attracted the attention of many teenagers with its simple operation, mysterious color and unquestionable authoritative tone. As some young people say, "I like to look at constellations and things like that, because it can make me know myself better." See what others say, I have psychological feelings. The more I look at them, the more I feel like myself. "

The content of all kinds of horoscope reading materials is mainly to select personalized "life proverbs" and life taboos for people of different horoscopes, make daily and weekly fortune predictions and this month's and this year's fortune predictions, and provide guidance and suggestions from dealing with people, life attitude, career choice to personal financial management, from "when to have good luck" to "the right (husband) wife candidate". These contents are stated in a detached and authoritative form, winning the trust and dependence of teenagers, as if knowing all this is equivalent to fully understanding yourself.

(2) Looking for the other half

Interpersonal communication and group life are important contents of adolescent development. Making friends cautiously and making friends widely is the basic orientation of teenagers. Through the different analysis of the personality characteristics of the "twelve constellations", teenagers can easily sit in the constellations of people around them and understand the personality characteristics of their communication partners, so as to identify and choose their own communication partners.

In those websites, books and fashion magazines such as "How to get along with teachers, classmates, lovers and bosses of different constellations" are everywhere, which are very attractive to teenagers who lack interpersonal skills and are eager to solve practical problems in group life.

For example, Virgo people are generally described as "nagging, neat, sensitive and often in a state of tension", so "people in this constellation should pay attention to neatness and give them a sense of security". These universally applicable suggestions can easily be proved to be "reasonable". Once this is proved by their own life experiences and friends' experiences, teenagers will take the initiative to find more relevant information and regard it as golden advice and action guide.

"Constellation speed matching" and "Constellation matching degree attribution" are essential contents of constellation cultural products. They point out the degree of coordination and matching between people of different constellations, which constellations are suitable for people of different constellations to fall in love and get married, and so on.

If some young people will say, "I am Aries, I am most afraid of seeing Capricorn." I have a bad feeling as soon as I see it. " With such a vision, people in different proportions will have the initiative, people in high proportions will be relaxed and confident, and people in low proportions will have a preconceived sense of defense. Because of this, the popularity of constellation culture is more popular in the process of teenagers' love. "The main body of the constellation culture is a single aristocrat or a person who is on the edge of feelings."

(3) Predicting the future

In the process of China's rapid transformation from planned economy to market economy and rapid social modernization, the construction of social service system that provides consultation and guidance for people's modernization development is obviously lagging behind, far from being established and perfected, and has not even been put on the agenda in many regions and industries. Adults face relatively few development difficulties and can basically cope with them by relying on their own life experience, social experience and interpersonal relationships.

Faced with many possibilities on major issues of life development, such as entering a higher school, choosing a job, falling in love, marriage, etc., teenagers, limited by knowledge, ability and life experience, often fall into the contradiction between their beautiful yearning for the future and their difficulty in grasping the reality. They urgently need enough information about the future to build the basis of their life choices.

The prominent function of "Constellation Culture" to predict the future just meets the special needs of teenagers in this special period. "I don't know where I will be in the future, so I always like to look at my luck and do a constellation test", "I like to look at constellations, want to find the future direction, find some suggestions and give myself some confidence", which is a typical psychological state of teenagers' belief and participation in constellation culture.

In ancient times, in order to indicate the direction and determine the time and season, people observed the sun, moon and stars, determined their positions, found out their changing laws, and compiled calendars accordingly. Around 3000 BC, the Babylonians divided the brighter stars into several "constellations", and the ancient Greeks named the constellations after mythical figures and animals. People arrange farming according to the change of constellations and sail out to sea under the guidance of constellations? In ancient times when science was underdeveloped, human beings evolved, grew and marched by looking up at the constellations day by day, so astronomy became one of the oldest natural science disciplines that people first mastered.

However, after 5,000 years, will teenagers in China continue to be pioneers in looking up at constellations?

The ever-changing combination of ancient constellations and the rich and interesting information contained in modern constellation culture have laid the attractive charm of constellation culture and easily attracted people to indulge in it. Especially in the face of the uncertainty of real life and the pursuit of certainty of future development, it is reasonable for teenagers to favor all kinds of constellation cultural products they like.

For the vast majority of teenagers, the enthusiasm for constellation culture is not out of faith, but out of love for form and demand for psychological comfort. Constellation culture promotes the prediction knowledge related to people's personality, love, marriage, occupation, money and health. Using some general and ambiguous language for general description, fully affirming and well-meaning persuasion and advice can massage the anxious hearts of modern teenagers again and again and play a role in relieving stress. More often, it is like a bowl of chicken soup for the soul, full of spiritual nutrients. In the interview I did, I heard this voice more than once-"I like constellation (knowledge), not because I believe it, but because I like reading many encouraging sentences."

Experts believe that if the constellation is only used as a pastime and entertainment to meet certain psychological needs, it will not have any serious consequences. If the constellation guides their behavior to some extent, they also regard the constellation as their life assistant or even mentor, which is close to the state of superstition and a sub-superstition. Blindly living in the world described by horoscopes, arranging your life step by step according to "horoscopes" and "horoscopes matching" and choosing your own life path will only make you more unclear about the future direction, even lose yourself and lose the determination and courage to struggle. Obviously, behind the guidance of constellations, the problems of world outlook, outlook on life and values are projected.

Thirdly, meditation in the upsurge.

An obvious reason why constellation culture is popular among teenagers is that it can solve the contradictions and doubts in the development of teenagers to a certain extent and meet some needs in the development of teenagers' lives. Contemporary teenagers urgently need to know themselves and society. They are confused about their future and life choices. They need a kind of external force to give them close support and guidance to help them alleviate their life pressure and psychological anxiety.

However, to what extent can our current school education, family education and popular culture meet their needs? When teenagers are deeply confused, and prefabricated educational institutions, youth organizations, mainstream cultural institutions and their cultural products can't give timely and effective help, they turn to the explanation and "advice" of constellations, which is in line with human instinct and rationality. If mainstream culture can't provide concrete and quick-acting solutions to meet the development needs of teenagers, pop culture may take its place.

In this sense, the popularity of constellation culture is only a compensation for the lack of youth service products (especially high-quality service products) provided by society. Paying attention to the realistic needs of teenagers, vigorously strengthening the construction of advanced socialist culture and perfecting the consultation and guidance system serving people's development are indispensable components of building a "people-oriented" modern society and should be included in the important agenda of building a harmonious socialist society as soon as possible.

In major online stores, from colorful constellation clothes to weird constellation bras, from various constellation toys to unique constellation stationery, there are also digital products such as constellation mobile phones and constellation USB flash drives? Everything is available, and constellation products strongly stimulate teenagers' desire to buy. Obviously, these savvy merchants are eyeing the business opportunities brought by the constellation culture. The series of products they developed have undoubtedly contributed to the popularization of the constellation culture while winning huge profits for them. In recent years, it is a phenomenon that the Internet, commercial organizations and organizations actively participate in the construction of youth culture, which deserves our great attention.

The rise and popularity of constellation culture once again proves this point. This also inspired us from another angle. In terms of creating and providing social service products for young people, in terms of youth cultural construction, especially in grasping and leading the cultural development trend in teen pop, we can change our thinking, improve our methods, give full play to the role of the Internet and various social organizations, and give full play to the role of the invisible hand of the market, so as to present more social service projects and provide better cultural products for the growth and development of young people.

The origin of constellation culture is ancient astrology, but astrology is not a science, and excessive infatuation with constellation culture is actually a superstition. "Superstition is the result of a fool meeting a liar" (Voltaire). Teenagers in contemporary China should not be such fools. It should be the unshirkable responsibility of young workers to carry out popular science education, give more support to popular science undertakings and continuously improve the scientific literacy of young people. Because we believe that only science is the best antidote to superstition, and the best way to avoid superstition is to popularize scientific knowledge to young people. Only a new generation armed with modern scientific knowledge can look at the world with a scientific world outlook and devote themselves to the great practice of transforming the world and transforming themselves with a positive attitude towards life.