What stars are included in South Suzaku Seven Nights, West White Tiger Seven Nights and North Xuanwu Seven Nights?

The South Suzaku's Seven Nights in the Four Elephants are composed of "Well, Ghost, Willow, Star, Zhang, Wing, Zhu" and other stars.

The West White Tiger in the Four Elephants has seven nights, consisting of the stars of "Kui, Lou, Stomach, Chang, Bi, Shen and tapir".

Among the four images, the Northern Xuanwu Seven Nights consists of stars such as Dou, Niu, Female, Empty, Danger, House and Wall.

The ancients in China looked up at the starry sky near the ecliptic in ancient times, and divided the stars near the ecliptic into 28 groups, which respectively represented the positions of the sun, the moon and the stars in the sky, and called them "Twenty-eight Hostels" as a reference for observing astronomical phenomena. In the traditional culture of China, the four elephants refer to the dragon, the white tiger, the suzaku and the Xuanwu, representing the four directions of east, west, north and south respectively, which originated from the belief in stars in ancient China.

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Twenty-eight lodgings are divided into seven lodgings in four directions, namely, "four elephants": black dragon in the east, suzaku in the south, white tiger in the west and Xuanwu in the north. Twenty-eight Nights is an important creation of ancient astronomers in China.

As early as ancient times, the ancients had realized that the position of the stars was constant, and the stars could be used as signs to explain the position of the sun, the moon and the five stars. The ancients in China looked up at the sky near the intersection of the ecliptic, divided the starry sky near the ecliptic into several areas, and called it Twenty-eight Hostels, and connected these Twenty-eight Hostels with the four elephants according to their directions and seasons.

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