List of Ancient Stars in China What are the 28 ancient stars in China?

1. Astronomers in ancient China divided the stars visible in the sky into 28 groups, called 28 nights, with 7 nights in the east, west, north and south. The seven nights in the Oriental Black Dragon are horn, sound, rafters, room, heart, tail and dustpan. The seven nights in Xuanwu in the north are fighting, cattle, women, air, danger, houses and walls; The seven houses of Xibaihu are Kui, Lou, Stomach, Zan, Bi, Gou and Shen. South Suzaku's seven nights are well, ghost, willow, star, Zhang, wing and bird. India, Persia and Arabia also had similar sayings in ancient times.

2. Twenty-eight stars, also known as the Twenty-eight Palace or Twenty-eight Stars, divide the stars in the southern transit into twenty-eight groups, and the star circles distributed along the ecliptic or the celestial equator (the equator of the earth extends to the sky) are divided into four groups, also known as four elephants, four beasts, four-dimensional gods and four-dimensional gods, each group has seven stars. Its origin is still not completely clear.

3. At first, the ancients chose 28 stars to compare the movements of the sun, the moon, gold, wood, water, fire and earth as observation marks. The meaning of "lodge" is similar to the "palace" of the zodiac, which means constellation. Represents the position of the sun, the moon and five stars. In the Tang Dynasty, Twenty-eight Hostels became the main body of the twenty-eight celestial bodies, and these celestial bodies were still named after Twenty-eight Hostels. Different from Sanyuan, as a celestial body, Twenty-eight Hostels are mainly used to divide the ownership of star officials.