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Published at 29th of March 2022 08:23:40 PM


Chapter 1964

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Around 600 A.D., a hermit named Dan Yuanzi extended Chen zhuodingji, reorganized the original work, added new observation results, and created the "Bu Tiange" to identify the stars, which made up for the shortcomings that the star map was difficult to spread and the characters were not vivid enough. He achieved the goal of "there are pictures in the name and images in the words", which has been spread to this day.

It can be seen that most celebrities in ancient times could observe stars, and emperors connected the fate of the country with the celestial phenomena.

In that case, how did the ancients observe the stars?

Stargazing is inseparable from constellations. Constellations were called "star officials" in ancient times. They are described as "being in the wild, like things, like officials in the dynasty, and like things in people, so they are ready."

The names of star officials generally come from two aspects. First, they are handed down from primitive society and slave society. Most of these names are related to production and life, such as camp room, wall, dustpan, Bi, well and bucket, which respectively represent houses, walls, wells and wine containers. Second, Shenhua characters and legends, such as morning glory and weaver girl.

"Zuo Zhuan of the spring and Autumn Period" records a story told by Zichan of Lu Zhao in AD, saying: "in the past, the Gaoxin family had two sons. Bo was called Luobo, and Ji was called Shishen. They lived in the open forest and could not compete with each other. They sought war every day to fight against each other. The later emperor did not Zang, moved Luobo to Shangqiu, moved Shishen to Daxia and participated in the war."

It was explained that Kubo, the second son of Gao Xin's family, was at odds with Shi Shen and fought every day. Yao had to send Kubo to Shangqiu to take charge of Chenxing, that is, Xinsu, also known as Shang Xing. He sent Shi Shen to Daxia to take charge of Shenxing and didn't see each other.

In stargazing, star officials, from emperors to farmers, from battlefields to markets, from heavenly guns to dustpans, are socialized in their names. The kingdoms on the ground, mountains and rivers, and human undertakings can be moved to the sky, covering myths, historical allusions and cultural customs. They are almost copied in the sky according to the earth and human beings.

The division of all sky star officials is mainly the "twenty-eight Nights" system.

In short, it is based on the star of key observation, and then connected with other nearby stars in a linear way, so as to form a night. There are 28 sleepers in the whole day, which are divided into four groups, called East, South, West and North officials, namely east official Canglong, South official rosefinch, West official White Tiger and North official Xuanwu. Represented by these twenty-eight sleepers, they lead all star officials in the whole day.

In addition, there are "three walls".

People looked up at the zenith and defined the wide sky around the Arctic as "ziweiyuan", also known as "Zigong" or "Zhongguan". Since the ancients had allocated the twenty-eight nights to four officials from East, West, North and south, and the Zhongguan only included one Zigong, which was somewhat thin, so they defined some of the sky between ziweiyuan and twenty-eight nights and added "tianshiyuan" and "taiweiyuan".

Three walls merged with twenty eight nights to form the "twenty eight nights and three walls" system, and then the status of "three walls" gradually improved. On this basis, it became the "three walls and twenty eight Nights" system, led by ziweiyuan. In Bu Tiange, some star officials of ziweiyuan were described as follows: the tail of gouchen refers to the north pole, and the emperor was alone in gouchen before the six stars and six Jias, The back door of the inner seat of the five emperors is a Huagai with 16 stars. The handle of the bar is like a Huagai

The seven most famous stars in crape myrtle garden are called "the Big Dipper seven stars". The seven stars have names. Starting from the spoon head, they are Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and waguang. The first four stars in the spoon head are called "doukui" and the other three are called "bucket handle".

Since the "Big Dipper" revolves around the North Pole day and night, from very early on, "Big Dipper" was imagined as the frame of the emperor of heaven. "Historical records · Tianguan book" said: "the dipper is the emperor's cart, transported in the center and temporary control in the four directions", which means that the seven stars of the Big Dipper are the horse cart of the emperor of heaven. The emperor of heaven takes the center as the hub, sits on the carriage and inspects the four directions. It is set at four o'clock, divided into cold and heat.

In the Wuliang temple in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is a stone portrait of "Dou as the emperor's car". In the picture, the seven stars of the Big Dipper are composed of four stars of Dou Kui. There is a person with the image of an emperor sitting in the bucket spoon, and the bucket handle is composed of three stars.

This car has no wheels and travels in the clouds. It was the first one who wanted to turn it off.

In addition, people found that in different seasons, the orientation of the "Big Dipper" and the direction of the handle are different, so the Big Dipper has long become a star sign indicating the season.

"Guanzi · circulation chapter" in the Warring States period wrote: "when the bucket handle points to the East, all spring is in the world; when the bucket handle points to the south, all summer is in the world; when the bucket handle points to the west, all autumn is in the world; when the bucket handle points to the north, all winter is in the world". The truth can be explained as follows: during the Warring States period, when the spring equinox comes, when you look up at the north sky, you can see that the bucket handle points to the East.

Due to the influence of precession, more than 2000 years have passed from the Warring States period to today. Now we see "Dou Bing Dong Zhi" at the spring equinox. It is no longer dusk, but near midnight. The delay of other seasons is basically the same.

When dusk comes, a breeze blows away the last light in the West. Looking north, the solemn purple wall seems to hang around the North Pole. "Beidou" and "Wenchang" live on the left of the wall, while "Huagai" and "chuanshe" are on the right; Turning around and looking back, in the southwest sky, the bright "Five Emperors one" hangs high. Centered on it is the taiweiyuan where the emperor and ministers deal with government affairs; Looking to the East, the Milky Way rises slowly on the southeast horizon. On the West Bank of the Milky way is the bustling sky city wall. Listen carefully. Through the melodious cicadas in the forest, you may hear the Hawking sound from the sky market.

Lin Xi also knows two stories about astrology.

First story:

In the early Tang Dynasty, after Li Shimin calmed the world, he firmly grasped the supreme imperial power through the change of Xuanwu Gate, learned the lessons of the previous dynasty's death, worked hard to govern, and the country was booming.

Like emperors of all dynasties, Li Shimin hopes to pass on the Tang Dynasty to future generations and generations.

Unexpectedly, Li Junxian, a native of Wu'an, was in charge of the Suwei of the Xuanwu Gate. At that time, Venus appeared many times during the day. Taishi divined that "the female Lord will rise". It is widely said in the secret book that "after the three dynasties of the Tang Dynasty, the female Lord Wu replaced Li and occupied the world".

The Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty was shocked by this, so he secretly asked the Taishi Li Chunfeng and said: "is there really something about the rumor in the secret record..."

Li Chunfeng replied, "I looked up at the sky and looked down at the calendar. This man is now in your Majesty's palace and is your Majesty's relative. From now on, he will be the king of the world and kill the descendants of the Tang royal family into a river of blood. Moreover, the sign has become, and it is difficult to change it again..."

Tang Taizong was shocked by this. After brewing for a long time, he said, "can we avoid killing all those who have doubts..."

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