Comparison of ancient astronomy between China and foreign countries

In ancient foreign countries, the space within eight degrees north and south of the ecliptic is called the zodiac, which is also divided into twelve equal parts from west to east. The starting and ending boundaries are slightly different from those of China's twelve rounds, and the general comparison is as follows:

12 Chinese zodiac signs

1. Jixing Capricorn Palace

2. Feng Xuan Aquarius Palace

3. Pisces Palace

4. Leave Aries Palace

5. Daliang Jinniu Palace

6. Shi Shen's double uterus

7. Quail First Cancer Palace

8. Quail Fire Lion Palace

9. Women's Palace in Quail Tailhouse

10. Shouxing Libra Palace

1 1. Fire Scorpio Palace

12. Analysis of Trojan Palace

The ancients 12 founded it for two main purposes: one is to indicate the position of the sun to explain the changes of solar terms, such as the sun crossing the winter solstice in astrology and being too cold in mystery. Second, it is used to explain the position where Jupiter runs every year and refuses to use chronology. For example, one year is "in astrology" and the next year is "in mystery".

The names of the twelve times are mostly related to their respective stars. For example, fire is the second name and the star name of the heart. Head quail, fire quail and tail quail, hence the name quail, obviously related to Suzaku in the south, and Suzaku's seven nights also belong to this night.

Verbs (short for verb) are separated.

The ancients associated the stars in the sky with the countries on the earth. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people divided the stars in the sky according to the area on the ground, and assigned them to the state maps on the ground respectively, so that they corresponded to each other. It is the concept of "dividing line" to say that a certain star is the dividing line of a certain country and a certain star is the dividing line of a certain country.

The purpose of the ancient people's division was to observe the celestial phenomena and predict the fortunes of the country on the ground. When talking about Mars' antares in Lunheng, he said: "There is a heavenly punishment; Heart, Song Fenye also. Regard it as a gentleman. " With the understanding of the wild, we can know that when ancient writers wrote about a certain area, they even wrote about the matching stars of this area. For example, in Geng Xin's "Mourning for the South of the Yangtze River", Qin was given a quail egg head, and he was so drunk. Wang Bo's Preface to Wang Teng-ting, Stars Divide Wings, and Li Bai's Difficult Road to Shu and Visiting Well. Refers to the division of stars in the depicted place.

In ancient times, the change of astronomical phenomena was associated with the good or bad luck of people. For example, a solar eclipse is a warning from God to those in power, and the appearance of comets symbolizes a military disaster. When the old star normally runs to a certain star, there will be a bumper harvest in the matching state on the ground, and when the fluorescent star runs to a certain star, there will be disaster in this area. The ancients also believed that the changes of some astronomical phenomena were signs of natural and social phenomena such as floods, droughts, famines, plagues and thieves.