What are the twenty-eight places?

Twenty-eight constellations (there are eight people in charge of the two departments of water and fire):

1. The seven constellations of the East: Jiao, wooden dragon; Kang, golden dragon; Di, earth raccoon dog; house, The sun is the rabbit; the heart is the moon fox; the tail is the fire tiger; the Ji is the water leopard.

2. The seven constellations in the north: Dou, wood and Xie; Ox, Taurus; Female, earth bat; Xu, sun rat; Wei, moon swallow; Room, fire pig; Wall, water?.

3. The Western Seven Constellations: Kui, the wood wolf; Lou, the golden dog; Wei, the earth pheasant; Pleiades, the sun chicken; Bi, the moon and black; Gou, the fire monkey; Ginseng, the water ape.

4. The seven constellations in the south: Well, wood, ghost, golden sheep, willow, earth deer, star, sun horse, Zhang, moon deer, wing, fire snake, Zhen, water worm.

Related definitions

Twenty-eight constellations are the twenty-eight star regions divided by ancient Chinese astronomers to observe the movements of the sun, moon, and five stars. They are composed of the Eastern Qinglong and the Southern Suzaku. It is composed of seven constellations, including White Tiger in the West and Xuanwu in the North.

In ancient times, ancient Chinese people looked up at the starry sky near the ecliptic and divided the stars near the ecliptic into several areas, called the twenty-eight constellations. They also divided the twenty-eight constellations into east, south, west, and south according to their directions. There are seven constellations in each palace in the four northern palaces. The seven constellations belonging to each palace are imagined as an animal, which is considered to be "the four spirits of the sky, rectifying the four directions."

The ancients successively selected twenty-eight constellations near the equator of the ecliptic as coordinates. Because they are surrounded by the sun, moon and five stars, they are very similar to the places where the sun, moon and five stars live, so they are called the Twenty-Eight Constellations. The twenty-eight constellations are used to illustrate the positions of the sun, moon, and five stars.

As one of the important components of traditional Chinese culture, the Twenty-Eight Constellations have been widely used in ancient astronomy, religion, literature, astrology, horoscopes, Feng Shui, auspicious selection and other spells. . Different fields give it different connotations, and the related content is very complex.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Twenty-Eight Constellations