What are the earliest astronomical works in the world?

The silk book of Mawangdui Tomb No.3 unearthed in BC 1668 contains many new information about astronomy and maps that people didn't know before. Next, we choose a data named "five-star career" from astronomical data for discussion. Mawangdui's silk book "Five Stars": the world's earliest astronomical astrology book "Five Stars": a movement recording five stars and astrology "Five Stars" is probably eight characters. Thanks to the efforts of Chinese scholars, this material has been translated into modern characters, and was included in the collection of China Cultural Relics and Astronomy on 1974. In the Five Elements, the five elements and the stars are recorded in the order of wood, gold, fire, earth and water. Take Jupiter as an example, it started like this: its emperor Dongmu became Ju Mang, its god was the old star, and the age of the country was related to its age. At one's age.

The celestial body corresponding to the five-element tree is Jupiter, which orbits the sky once every ten years and rules a country on the earth every year. This theory is called domain theory. That's why Jupiter is called the anniversary star. The idea is to divide the celestial sphere into 12 equal parts, called 12 times, and the stars should move once a year. Mawangdui silk book Five Stars: the world's earliest astronomical astrology book. During the Warring States Period (475-22 BC1), there was a method to mark the year according to the position of the stars. Then, the article goes on to say:

It's clear in the wind, in the wind of the first month, and in the wind of the east wind. The sentences in brackets were initially omitted, but China scholars added these sentences according to some related documents, such as Historical Records, Chronicle of Tianguan and Zhong Nanzi's astronomical theory. Among them, Shutie Pavilion and Dan 'e are the nicknames of twelve branches, representing Yin years respectively. Maosui barracks, one of the 28 east walls. The meaning of this passage is that the new year star appears in the east before sunrise, which is called sunrise. Sunrise and Wu Ying appear in the first month of the lunar calendar. In February, it appeared at the same time as the East Wall.

Similarly, the sunrise from March to 65438+February occurred at the same time in different years and different nights. Sunrise means that a star appears in the east before the sun rises. As we all know, Egypt used to determine the seasons according to Sirius' sunrise. But in China, we saw in the Book of Rites Monthly that the main basis for judging seasons is that the stars cross the meridian, but there are not many records about spirals. At this point, the contents of the five-star account are valuable.