What is my constellation?

You can check your horoscope by looking at your birthday and the date of your birthday in the solar calendar.

1 .Aries 3.2 1-4.20.

2. Taurus 4.20-5.20.

3. Gemini 5.2 1-6.2 1.

4. Cancer 6.22-7.22.

5. Leo 7.23-8.22.

6. Virgo 8.23-9.22.

7. Libra 9.23- 10.23.

8. Scorpio +00.24- 1 1.22.

9. Sagittarius11.23-12.438+0.

10. Capricorn12.22-1.19.

1 1. Aquarius 1.20-2. 18.

12. Pisces 2. 19-3.20.

1. Constellation is an indispensable part of astrology and a group of stars in the sky. Since ancient times, human beings have associated three or five stars with their mythical figures or artifacts, which are called "constellations". From 65438 to 0930, the International Astronomical Union divided the sky into 88 official constellations, which had precise boundaries and were based on ancient Greek myths handed down from the Middle Ages. These constellations are widely used in the field of navigation, and they are almost the means to determine the orientation of the sky in all civilizations. In ancient times, the rise and fall of stars or constellations were often used to navigate and determine time. Ancient Egypt determined the beginning of a year by observing the rise of Sirius. In some areas, the ancient technology of determining position by observing stars still remains. Constellations and the literary images they represent often appear in the works of literati.

Secondly, in 270 BC, the Greek poet Aratus wrote Things, which mentioned 47 constellations. According to the star regions recorded in Celestial Bodies, due to precession, the Antarctic in the period described in the book is not consistent with the current Antarctic, so it can be inferred that the starry sky recorded in the book is before 2000 BC; At the same time, the blank area of the starry sky record indicates that the observer should be near 35 to 36 north latitude. So some people think that the practice of dividing the starry sky into constellations originated from Babylon and Sumer in Mesopotamia, and the constellations of Greece and Egypt may have been introduced from this area. In the Book of Job, several constellations such as Bear and Orion are mentioned. In the12nd century BC, the land landmarks built in the era of Nebuchadnezzar I were engraved with designs of Sagittarius, Scorpio and Ophiuchus. The ancient Greek poets Homer and hesiod also mentioned Ursa major, Orion and the Pleiades (the Pleiades was considered as an independent constellation at that time, not a part of Taurus), and at the same time, Babylon had recorded the zodiac in cuneiform.

Thirdly, in ancient China, Sanyuan near the North Pole was defined as the middle official, while Erbasu was actually subdivided from the four elephants. The star area south of Erbasu was called the foreign official, that is, "middle official+four elephants+foreign official", which was just one of the many star area division methods 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.

In ancient China, the sky was divided by star officials. The earliest record of star officials is Sima Qian's Book of Historical Records, which contains 9 1 star officials and more than 500 stars. By the Sui Dynasty, there were 283 star officials recorded in Song of Heaven, belonging to one of the three yuan or twenty-eight lodging houses. Sanyuan refers to the three regions surrounding the Arctic sky, namely Ziweiyuan, Taiweiyuan and Tianshiyuan, which are divided into four elephants around the ecliptic and the celestial equator, and each elephant is subdivided into seven regions of the four elephants, collectively called Twenty-eight Hostels. In ancient China, the lunar calendar was used as a calendar year. Because the moon rotates once around the earth on the 28th of every month, it is called a "shelter" or "shed" when it passes through an area every day. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, due to the influence of western learning spreading to the east, Xu Guangqi compiled the almanac of Chongzhen with reference to the data of European astronomy, adding 23 star officials near Invivo.