What are the records of Aurora in China?

Aurora has been recorded for a long time in ancient China. Thousands of years ago, during the legendary period of the Yellow Emperor, there was a "big lightning around the big dipper".

The chronicles of bamboo slips in the Warring States recorded an aurora that happened around 950 BC: "In the last years of King Zhao of Zhou, the night was bright and colorful. That year, Wang Nan did not come back. " It describes the time, direction and color of the aurora, and is the earliest and most detailed aurora record in China, more than 600 years earlier than in the west.

There are abundant records about aurora in ancient China. At that time, there was no name for aurora, but it was named according to the shape, size, movement, change and color of various aurora phenomena. This classification nomenclature was first seen in historical records? Official books show that it has a history of at least 2000 years.