What are the 12 constellations?

Aries? Aries (3/21 - 4/19)?

Taurus? Taurus (4/2 - 5/2)?

Gemini? Gemini (5/21 - 6/21)?

Cancer (6/22-7/22)?

Leo Leo (7/23-8/22)?

virgo Virgo (8/23-9/22)?

Libra Libra (9/23-1/23)?

Scorpio (October 24-November 22)?

Sagittarius (11/23-12/21)?

Capricorn (12/22-1/19)?

Aquarius? Aquarius (1/2 - 2/18)?

Pisces? Pisces (2/19-3/2)

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The origin of constellations

In the book Zhou Li in the early period of the Zhou Dynasty, some of the names of twenty-eight lodges were found, which was complete in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The records of twenty-eight lodges and four elephants were first found in Historical Records. There are many differences on the origin, time and place of Twenty-eight Hostels in academic circles. Traditionally, China's twenty-eight lodging system can only be traced back to the eighth to the sixth century BC.

In p>1978, archaeologists unearthed the lacquer box cover with the image of Twenty-eight Hostels in the tomb of Zeng Houyi in Suizhou, Hubei Province, which is the earliest physical example of Twenty-eight Hostels discovered so far.

In ancient China, Sanyuan, near the North Pole, was designated as the middle official, while Erbasu was actually subdivided from the four elephants, and the star area south of Erbasu was called the foreign official, that is, "middle official+four elephants+foreign officials", which was just one of the numerous methods for dividing the star areas in ancient China.

In addition, there are many methods to divide the stars into seven regions, such as "five beasts+middle officials+foreign officials" and "nine wild+middle officials+foreign officials" which are divided into 11 regions, but the division method of "middle officials+four elephants" is widely spread.

In ancient China, the stars were used to divide the sky. The earliest work that recorded the star officials was Sima Qian's Historical Records Tianguan Book, in which 91 star officials recorded more than 5 stars. By the Sui Dynasty, there were 283 star officials recorded in the Song of the Sky, which belonged to Sanyuan or one of the Twenty-eight Hostels.

The Three Walls refer to the three regions surrounding the Arctic sky, namely Ziweiyuan, Taiweiyuan and Tianshiyuan, while the surrounding ecliptic and the celestial equator are divided into four elephants, and each elephant is subdivided into seven regions in the four elephants, which are collectively called 28 lodges. In ancient China, the lunar calendar was used as the calendar year. Because the moon rotates around the earth once every month on the 28th, it is called "lodge" or "shed" when it passes through an area every day.

by the end of Ming dynasty, due to the influence of western learning spreading to the east, Xu Guangqi compiled the almanac of Chongzhen, which added 23 star officials near invivo with reference to the data of European astronomy.

There are different opinions on the sequence of dividing the starry sky into three walls, four elephants and twenty-eight lodges. Gaul, an astronomer in the period of the Republic of China, thought in his book "Astrology Notes" that the Three Walls appeared first, then the Four Elephants, and the Twenty-eight Nights appeared last.

Chen Zun Gui, an astronomer who was the first curator of the Beijing Planetarium, thought in his works that the four images appeared earlier, and then divided into twenty-eight lodges, while the three walls came last, and pointed out that the name of the three walls only appeared in the Song of Dan Yuanzi's Step to Heaven in the Sui Dynasty, and the shape of the three walls and twenty-eight lodges was also formed and used here.