What do the 28 stars represent?

The Golden Dragon, the Earth Bat, the Sun Rabbit, the Moon Fox, the Fire Tiger, the Water Leopard, the Wooden Hae, the Golden Ox, the Earth Raccoon, the Sun Rat, the Moon Swallow, the Fire Pig, the Water Snake, the Wooden Wolf, the Golden Dog, the Earth Swine, the Pleiadian Chicken, the Moon Crow, the Monkey, the Monkey, the Monkey, the Water Ape, the Wooden Jail, the Golden Ghost, the Earth Rooster, the Star Horse, the Moon Deer, the Winged Serpent, and the Square Water Worm.

The names of the twenty-eight constellations:

The seven constellations of the Eastern Blue Dragon: Horn, Kang, Dih, Fang, Xin, Tail, Kei (jī)

The seven constellations of the Northern Xuanwu: Dou (dǒu), Niu, Nu, Hollow, Dangerous, Room, and Pi (壁)

The seven constellations of the Western White Tiger: Kui, Lou (lóu), Gastric, Pleiades (mǎo), Bi, Bei, Cai (zī), and Sen (shēn)

South Zhuqueak: The seven constellations of the Southern Jade Bird: Kui, Lou (lóu), Stomach, Pleiades, Bi, Cang (zī), and Sen (shēn)

Southern Vermilion Bird seven constellations: wells, ghosts, willow, star, Zhang, wing, square (zhěn)

Expanded information :

Anciently, in order to facilitate the observation of the sun, the moon and the five planets (gold, wood, water, fire, earth), they will be the yellow, the equator, the constellations near the selected twenty-eight to do for the sign, collectively referred to as the constellation of the 28, or the 28 astrological signs. Twenty-eight constellations, or twenty-eight astrological signs.

Angle, hyper, 氐、房、心、尾、箕, these seven stars form a dragon image, the equinox in the eastern sky, so called the Eastern Green Dragon seven hosts;

Dou, cattle, female, virtual, dangerous, room, wall, the seven stars form a group of turtles and snakes intertwined with each other's image of the equinox in the north of the sky, it is known as the northern Xuanwu seven hosts;

Kui, Lou, stomach, Pleiades, Bi, Cave, stomach, Pleiades, Bi, Sam, these seven stars form the image of a tiger, the equinox in the western part of the sky, it is called the western white tiger seven hosts;

Well, ghosts, willow, star, Zhang, wing, square, the seven stars form the image of a bird, the equinox in the southern part of the sky, it is called the southern Vermilion Bird seven hosts.

By the above seven hosts form the image of four animals, collectively known as the four elephants, four-dimensional, four beasts. Ancient people used these four elephants and twenty-eight stars in each elephant and each host's emergence and arrival in the middle of the sky at the moment to determine the season. Ancient people facing the south to see the direction of the festival, which is why there is the left east of the green dragon, the right west of the white tiger, after the north of the Xuanwu, before the south of the vermilion bird.