Ancient Astronomy – What are the Twenty-Eight Stars?
The Twenty-Eight Houses are the twenty-eight star zones divided by the ancients by observing the "three lights"—the operation of the sun, the moon, and the five stars.
According to the four directions in which it is located: east, west, south and north, it is divided into four elephants, seven stars on each side, and then according to the shape of the four elephants, it matches four colors, each with a guardian spirit, also called the four spirits.
Corresponding to the four square and three lights - sun, moon, five stars (gold, wood, water, fire and earth) division:
Oriental Seven Lodges: Horns, Wooden Jiao, Kang, Golden Dragon, Krypton, Earth Raccoon, Fang, Sun Rabbit, Heart, Moon Fox, Tail, Fire Tiger, Ji, Water Leopard, Star Like a Dragon, is the Eastern Dragon (cyan);
Western Seven Lodges: Kui, Timber Wolf, Lou, Golden Dog, Stomach, Earth Pheasant, Pleiades, Sun Chicken, Bi, Yue Wu, Qiu, Fire Monkey, Ginseng, Water Ape, Star Elephant Like a Tiger, is the Western White Tiger (white);
Seven Houses in the South: Well, Wooden Fox, Ghost, Golden Sheep, Willow, Earth Roe, Star, Sun Horse, Zhang, Moon Deer, Wing, Fire Snake, Dragon, Water Worm, Astrological Elephant, Astrological Like a Big Bird, is the Southern Suzaku (red);
Northern Seven Lodges: Bucket, Wood Crab, Cow, Golden Bull, Female, Earth Bat, Void, Sun Rat, Danger, Moon Swallow, Room, Fire Pig, Wall, Water Yu, Star Like a Turtle Like a Snake, is for the Northern Xuanwu (black).
The four spirits of heaven are square in all directions.
We may be relatively unfamiliar with these stars, but people who like "Journey to the West" will definitely have an impression, such as this Kui Timber Wolf, one of the Seven Houses of the West, that is, the yellow-robed monster of "Journey to the West", who robbed the Princess of the Treasure Elephant Kingdom hundred flowers and shame, and turned tang monk into a tiger, and at the end of the day, there were three rhino monsters that stole oil, which were four wooden birds star horned wood jiao, fighting wood badgers, Kui wood wolves, and Well wood beasts to help surrender.
The Pleiadian Chicken is the Pleiadian Star Officer, the Fifty-fifth Time Gang Sutra Team surrendered the Scorpion Essence, and later the multi-eyed Vilambhava Bodhisattva was the mother of the Pleiades Chicken, and the battle magic weapon embroidery needle was refined in the eyes of the Pleiades Chicken.
There was also the Little Lei Yin Temple that time, the twenty-eight stars were all out of the group, and in order to save Brother Monkey, kang Jinlong drilled a hole in the dragon's horn and brushed up the sense of existence and favorability.
There are also twenty-eight stars in the "Fengshen Yanyi"; In "Water Margin", Hao Siwen, the forty-first earth star of Liangshan Good Han, is also nicknamed Jingmu Yan.
It can be seen that the twenty-eight stars are still very high in the stories of the ancients.
In addition, the four elephants also correspond to the four seasons and the five elements.
The dragon is wood, and the spring is wood, so the oriental dragon represents spring; Suzaku is fire, summer is fire, so the southern suzaku represents summer; Autumn gold, for the Western White Tiger; The remaining northern xuanwu is water, and the winter is water.
Where is the soil?
The earth dwells in the center, not among the four elephants, but also contains four elephants, so the earth is combined with the four elephants, and the guardian spirit is the Ying Dragon.
Soil belongs to the long summer of the four seasons - the period from autumn to autumn equinox, although the summer has passed, but it has not yet fallen, the weather is still very hot, so it is called long summer.
Another theory is that a period of time on the tail of summer, that is, the sixth month of the lunar calendar, is called long summer because June has the longest daytime.
Regardless of the accuracy of that statement, the soil in the four seasons corresponds to the long summer season.
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