What is the origin of the constellation?

There are some names of 28 homestays in the early Zhou Dynasty in Zhou Li, which was written in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Records of twenty-eight huts and four elephants were first found in historical records. In ancient China, Sanyuan, which is near the North Pole, was defined as a middle official, while Erbasu was actually subdivided from four elephants. The star area south of Erbasu was called a foreign official, that is, "middle official+four elephants+foreign officials", which was just one of the many ways to divide the star areas in ancient China.

In addition, there are many ways to divide the stars into seven areas, such as "five beasts+middle officials+foreign officials" and "nine wild+middle officials+foreign officials" which are divided into 1 1 area, but the division method of "middle officials+four elephants" is widely spread.

There are different opinions about the order in which the starry sky is divided into three walls, four images and twenty-eight nights. Gaul, an astronomer in the Republic of China, thought in his book Notes on Astrology that three walls appeared first, then four elephants, and finally appeared for 28 nights.

Chen Zungui, an astronomer who was the first curator of the Beijing Planetarium, thinks in his works that these four images appeared earlier, and then they were divided into twenty-eight lodges, with Sanyuan being the last one, and points out that the name of Sanyuan only appeared in the Song of Dan Deng Tian in the Sui Dynasty, and the shape of Sanyuan and Twenty-eight lodges was also formed and used here.

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The original Babylonians made a star chart of the four seasons according to the stars, hoping to use it to predict the fate of the country and people. In fact, this method of divination is similar to that of ancient China. It is based on the relationship between the fortune teller and the stars and explains all aspects of his life.

Because ancient humans lived according to the changes of astronomical phenomena, natural disasters were irresistible, which caused the sense of human destiny; And they found that the movement of the sun, moon and stars in the universe affects the rise and fall of everything, even the fate of people.

Astrologers believe that when everyone is born, every planet in the solar system, big or small, including the sun, the moon, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, Neptune, Uranus and Pluto, runs at different angles and distances, which has great influence; Each planet interacts with its corresponding 65,438+02 constellation, which has different influences on people's personality. When these planets run, everyone's behavior and fate will also change.