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Twenty-eight nights, east, west, north and south, seven nights. The seven lodging places of Oriental Qinglong are horn, sound, hall (dο), house, heart, tail and dustpan; The seven nights in Xuanwu in the north are fighting, cattle, women, air, danger, houses and walls; The seven residences of Xibaihu are Kui, Lou, Wei, Chang (O), Bi, tapir (zē) and Shen (Shē n); South Suzaku's seven nights are well, ghost, willow, star, Zhang, wing and Zhu (zhěn).

The 28 huts start from Kakuk and are arranged from west to east, in the same direction as the sun and the moon:

The East is called Qinglong: Jiao Mujiao Kang Jinlong Nyctereute Fang Ri Rabbit Heart Moon Fox Tail Fire Tiger Basket Water Leopard;

In the south, Suzaku is called: Muan Jing Ghost Golden Sheep, Liu Tu, Xingri Horse, Zhang Yuelu, Winged Fire Snake, Water Worm;

In the west, it is called the White Tiger: the Golden Dog of the Tiger Wood Wolf Tower, the Stomach Soil, the Pheasant, and Alnilam, the fire monkey of Bi Wu Yue Gou;

Xuanwu north said: unicorn, golden bull, female earth bat, virtual sun rat, fierce moon swallowing room fire, pig wall water.

Seven Yao, the general name for the sun, the moon and the five stars in ancient China, is also called "seven politics", "seven latitudes" and "seven splendors". Refers to the sun (the sun), the moon (the lunar moon) and the five major planets of gold (Taibai), wood (the old star), water (the morning star), fire (fluorescence) and earth (star filling and revitalization).

Twelve times is a division method of Sunday in ancient China.

In order to observe the movement of the sun, the moon and the five stars and the overall transformation, the ancients divided Sunday into twelve equal parts, called twelve times. The method they adopted was to divide the celestial sphere area of the ecliptic into twelve parts from west to east, which were named as Jixing, Xu Anbi, Zhangdi, Daliang, Shishen, Quail Head, Quail Fire, Quail Tail, Shouxing, Fire and Shimu in turn.

Compared with the zodiac, the ancient western countries also divided the zodiac into 12 in the direction from west to east, which is slightly different from the twelve divisions in China. The comparison between the two is as follows:

Astrology → Capricorn Palace → Aquarius Palace

You → Pisces Palace → Aries Palace

Girder → Taurus Palace Stone God → Twin Uterus

Quail Head → Cancer Palace Quail Fire → Lion Palace

Quail tail → Maidong Shouxing → Libra Palace

Fire → Scorpio Palace Analysis Wood → Sagittarius Palace

Twenty-eight is obsidian, and China listed twenty-eight "main stars" in ancient times. The "main star" here is also called "Zhengyao", that is, "Twenty-eight Zhengyao". Specifically, the "good and evil" are: celestial pole, Sun, Tian Tong, Tianfu, Taiyin, Hungry Wolf, Giant Gate, Heaven, and Qi.

Four emperors, Emperor Wei Zi of the Arctic (he is always in charge of all the stars), the immortal emperor of the Antarctic (he is in charge of the longevity of the earth), and the Emperor Gou Chen of Shanggong (he is in charge of the birth of Yin and Yang, the beauty of all things, and the beauty of mountains and rivers on the earth).

Three official emperors, Tianguan Emperor Wei Zi was in the Yuan Dynasty, Qing Xu was in the Yuan Dynasty and Dongyin was in the Yuan Dynasty.

Five-star, longevity star in the east, flashing in the south, Taibai in the west, morning star in the north and town star in the center.