Today's young people like to talk about horoscopes, almost as common as talking about the weather. People are obsessed with constellations and never care about how constellations are born!
As everyone knows, constellations are not new things that have been passed down from the West, and as early as a thousand years ago, the ancient Chinese people have begun to play with constellations.
You don't believe it? Let's take a look at when the ancient Chinese began to play with constellations.
Originally, the zodiac sign was named "Zodiac" during the ancient Babylonian period, and was once introduced to Greece, and then spread to India around the time of the Western Yuan. In the 6th century, the zodiac signs came to China from India with Buddhist scriptures.
The earliest surviving documentary record of constellations dates back to the Sui Dynasty, when a high monk from Tianzhu brought with him his own translation of the Mahayana Dafang and other Rizang Sutras.
A passage reads: "In September, the Lord of the God of Shooting Is the Lord of the Gods; in October, the Lord of the God of Exhaustion is his Month; in November, the Lord of the God of Water Is his Month; In December, the Lord of the God of Heavenly Fish is his Month; in the First Month, the Lord of the God of The Sheep is his Moon; in February, the Lord of the God of The Special Cow is his Moon; in March, the Lord of the God of The Two Birds is his Moon; in April, the Lord of the Crab God is his Month; in This May, the Lord of the God of the Master of the Master is his Moon; in this June, the Lord of the Goddess of Heaven is his Moon; in July, the Lord of the God of Measurement is his Moon, and in August, the Lord of the Scorpion God is his Moon." ”
However, the zodiac signs are called differently than they are now. For example, the aries sheep is called the special sheep, and the golden bull is called the special cow - the word "special" means male.
The virgin is called Tennō, and gemini is also very interesting, about the association of "in heaven wish for a bird with wings", so it is translated as "double bird".
As for the animal image of the sheep's tail called "exhaustion", it is a transliteration of the Sanskrit makara, which is the only constellation in the later 88 constellations to retain transliterations, so Capricorn was destined to become an extraordinary constellation from the beginning.
Except for the fact that the names are a little different, they are almost exactly the same as the twelve constellations that everyone knows now.
Although the astrology that we are now fascinated by was introduced to the mainland as early as the Sui Dynasty, it was not until the Tang Dynasty that many literary and artistic young people believed in it, and then it became popular throughout the country until the Song Dynasty.
Pictorial historical materials, documentary records and excavated cultural relics can all prove that the civil society of the Song Dynasty has widely known about the Twelve Star Palace, even to the extent of obsession.
When it comes to the degree of obsession of the Song people with constellation culture, it is necessary to mention Su Shi, a great literary hero of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The great scholar Su Shi's official fortunes fluctuated bizarrely, and he held positions in 14 states and counties in his lifetime, and his footprints spread all over the land of Shenzhou. He is extremely talented and has excellent poetry and cooking skills, but he has not been reused in his career.
In the face of a bumpy career, Su Shi has always had a strong and tenacious personality, which may be related to his deep study of constellations.
Su Shi had sighed more than once that the reason why Huai Cai did not meet must be because his constellation was "exhausted".
Su Shi once wrote in the "Dongpo Zhilin Fate": "Retreat (that is, Han Yu) Shiyun: The birthday of my birth, the moon and the direct fight. It is the grinding scorpion of the retreat that is the body palace, and the servant is the life of the grinding scorpion, and he has a lot of slander in his life, and he is also sick! ”
The big vernacular is: Han Yu's ascending sign is Capricorn, my Su Shi's sun sign is also Capricorn, and I and Han Yu are really miserable! Because they are both Capricorns, they suffer all their lives. It seems that Capricorn is not a good sign.
After blacking himself, he did not forget to black his good friend, Su Shi's friend Ma Mengde is also a Capricorn.
He deliberately mocked Ma Mengde, saying: "Ma Mengde was born in the same years as the servant, and the servant was born for eight days, and he was born of the old age, and there was no rich man, and the servant and the dream were the crown of poverty; that is, when we look at it, we should be the first to push the dream." ”
Presumably, the numerology of making fun of Ma Mengde was even more unlucky than him.
The reason why Su Shi likes black Capricorn so much is because his idol Han Yu said that "exhaustion" is not good, which shows that the ancients chased stars are also crazy.
Han Yu's "Three-Star Line" wrote: "The birthday of my birth, the moon stays in Nandou. The cow fights its horns and opens its mouth. The cattle do not see the suitcase, and the bucket does not drink the wine pulp. Ji has a unique deity, and it stops and blows all the time. There is no good name to hear, no evil to blame. Fame multiplies and divides, and there is less to lose. Samsung is in the sky, Shiwu is in the east. Oh Ru ox and bucket, Ru alone can not be a god. ”
From this, we can see Han Yue's self-pity and self-pity, feeling that his bad luck is not good, all because of Capricorn.
Probably because Su Shi's influence is too great, so that in the later period, as long as the literati feel that their career is bumpy, they will say that they are also Capricorns like Han Yu Sushi.
Wen Tianxiang had secretly poked and poked and revealed such thoughts: "The Palace of the Scorpion's Palace stars see the bucket, and the Dustpan yang has a mouth." Chang Li was born on the slope of his life, and slander was everything in his life. I have a limit of fighting, and it is time for the end of the day to come ugly. Although it is not a lifelong interference, a year of shells is mixed. ”
Not only that, Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, who arrived in the Qing Dynasty, once said that Capricorn really had a bad life. In this way, the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, capricorn black appeared in every dynasty, and every dynasty would have a spiritual leader stand up and spit on it.
Capricorn really is: people sit at home, pots come from heaven, and being blackened is not generally miserable! Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, it lasted for hundreds of years.
Incidentally, Capricorn's initial transliteration is exhaustion, and this Capricorn has another influence in Chinese culture.
Its image, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, became a kind of beast, frequently appearing in temple sculptures, vessel decorations and tomb carvings, and gradually evolved into auspicious elements such as dragon heads, animal horns, bird wings, and carp bodies that Chinese people liked to see, so that there was a proper noun in cultural relics, called the capricorn pattern - that is, the famous fish dragon pattern.
If the work is not smooth, even if the odd constellation is not good, can you imagine that their military experts used constellations to predict whether the war would be won before the war?
The Northern Song Dynasty had a military book called "The General Outline of the Martial Classics", which was called the "Encyclopedia of Military Technology" by the famous British historian of science and technology Joseph Needham, which recorded a lot about the relationship between time and constellations: "Spring wind, in the middle of February... After three days into the Aries Palace, its god Tiankui", "summer solstice, mid-May, the last six days into the Cancer Palace, its god Xiao ji".
That is to say, when the Song Dynasty people fought, before launching an attack, they had to first see which constellations were the most prosperous and the most suitable for war this week, and even made a ranking list of several constellations that were most suitable for serving as generals.
I never expected that such a rigorous thing would be arranged in this way, and if you encountered a water retrograde during the war, wouldn't it be very miserable?
It can be seen that the zodiac sign is not just a topic from the West, as early as the ancient times of the continent, wise people began to study it.
The twelve constellations predict that modern people are keen on, in fact, the ancients are the same.