What do the sun, moon and stars mean?

Day: the sun; Moon: the moon; Star: star; Chen: Mercury.

The original meaning of the word "star" is a star, while the original meaning of "Chen" is the state that curled insects move when they are frightened, because agricultural activities are mostly related to the operation of celestial bodies, and later it is extended to the meaning of stars.

Specifically, the meaning of "Chen" is broader than the meaning of "star", which only refers to stars, but refers to the sun, moon and stars, and even includes all celestial bodies.

Chen has many meanings, most of which represent the combination of the sun and the moon.

The sun, the moon and the stars are called four images because the sun is the sun in the sun, the moon is the sun in the sun, the stars are the sun in the sun, and the morning is the sun in the sun.

As the conjunction of the sun, the moon and the new moon, Chen is actually only a relative positional relationship (there is no actual luminous celestial body). In the dark, hair is invisible, and in some cases it can "trigger" an eclipse, so the middle is cloudy.

Expand the information, ethnic myths explain the shadow in the middle of the month, and also think that there are people and things in it. As for who went up, what went up and why, there are different opinions.

The myth of the sun, the moon and the stars reflects ancient people's simple understanding of celestial bodies, and some of them show the desire to control celestial bodies by witchcraft, which has primitive science and certain practical significance.

However, due to the infiltration and integration of various primitive concepts, they finally combined into a myth full of naive fantasies.

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