Below is a song compose by Wang Xi Ming, a court astronomer in Tang Dynasty -’Song of the walk in the sky’. There are 283 Asterism and 1645 stars included in The Three Enclosures and 28 Constellations (28 Mansion is a better term….)
There are a few versions in history. This is the more popular version.
唐 代 王 希 明
三 垣 The Three Enclosures
Is this a diagram on theology or astronomy? Did I say that to understand ancient Chinese Science one requires an esoteric mind? Well, this diagram isn’t from any antiquity of ancient Chinese collections. It came from Thomas Digges of his father’s A Prognostication everlastinge…, published in 1576 in London. There are more background here. Isn’t [...]
To the ancient Chinese, the earth and universal space is made up of interlocking cycles, and for purpose of reading an event or a subject’s life trend, they saw all motions in the heavens (Universe) as one single phenomenon. And, the observations and realities from this one single phenomenon determines the future of the event/Subject. [...]
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