The explanation of Niu Jinniu

Zhu, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, said: "As far as the image of the 28 huts is concerned, only the dragon and the cow are one, and he is not one of them." In ancient astronomy, the 28 stars were divided into four images, and seven nights were one image, which had azimuth significance. There is also an animal idol every night. The twelve earthly branches and their zodiac signs are not only ordinal numbers, but also symbol systems representing spatial orientation. As far as orientation is concerned, the two are comparable. As Zhu said, comparing the two systems of the zodiac and the 28 stars, only two items are consistent: one is the dragon, the dragon is in the east, and the seven nights of Qinglong are also in the east; Followed by cattle, ugly cattle, and cattle lodge overlap. "Only the dragon and the cow are combined", but their orders of magnitude are different. The black dragon, whose dragon and dragon are combined into one in the four elephants, is one of the twelve Chen's to deal with the army of twenty-eight stars-the Oriental Qinglong composed of seven nights; Located on one side, this Oriental Dragon has a large area, which can correspond to the three zodiac signs: Yinhu, Maotu and Chen Long. It can be seen that this coincidence is only in line with the small and the big direction.

The combination of ugly cattle and cattle lodge is accurate and can be called two-phase coincidence. The orientation of the twelve earthly branches is ugly in the north and the east. The Twenty-eight Lodgings and Seven Lodgings in North Xuanwu are located in the northern sky, which are arranged in turn from east to west, namely, bucket, cow, female, virtual, dangerous, house and wall. These seven nights correspond to the three days of "Hai, Zi and Ugliness". If you sit in the right position, the ugly cow will be in the bucket, and the cow and the woman will stay for three nights; Sit in the middle and control the left and right. Ugly cows should sit in the cowshed. In the words of "five elements of justice" in the Sui Dynasty, it was called "being fooled by cattle".

This coincidence caused a special case of the twenty-eight gods-Niu Jinniu.

Among the twenty-eight stars, there are animals of the twelve zodiac signs. They are the rising sun mouse, the ox and the golden bull, the tail fire tiger, the square rabbit, the Kang Jinlong, the winged fire snake, the star horse, the ghost golden sheep, the gunshot monkey, the Zanri chicken, the Lou golden dog and the room fire pig. The composition of these names, taking the virtual mouse as an example, is the name of the star, the sky is one of the seven wonders, and the mouse is taken by the image of the animal. Taurus, the first "cow" is the name of the star, and the last "cow" is the animal image taken by this star.

Among the names of the 28 stars, only one star has adopted the animal name, and this is Niusu. The ugly cows in the Zodiac are just in line with their orientation, thus forming the coincidence of the two cows of "Niu Jinniu". This means that no matter the cows in the zodiac or the "cows" in the twenty-eight nights, they all stand in an ugly position. Another coincidence is that there are Taurus in the zodiac of Babylon. Taurus, Taurus, two "golden" cows.