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According to the quadrant, constellation Phoenix in Chinese sky is not fully seen. Ankaa (Alpha Phoenicis) are bright stars in this constellation that possibly never seen in Chinese sky. The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 鳳凰座 ( fèng huáng zuò ), which means "the phoenix constellation".
"Dragon-and-phoenix infants" (龍鳳胎; 龙凤胎) is a Chinese term for a set of male and female fraternal twins. Fenghuang is a common place name throughout China. The best known is Fenghuang County in western Hunan, southern China, formerly a sub-prefecture. Its name is written with the same Chinese characters as the mythological bird.
The oldest extant Chinese star maps date to the Tang dynasty. Notable among them are the 8th-century Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era and Dunhuang Star Chart. It contains collections of earlier Chinese astronomers (Shi Shen, Gan De and Wu Xian) as well as of Indian astronomy (which had reached China in the early centuries AD).
Besides star maps, the Chinese also made celestial globes, which show stars' positions like a star map and can present the sky at a specific time. Because of its Chinese name, it is often confused with the armillary sphere, which is just one word different in Chinese (渾象 vs. 渾儀).
The colours associated with the four creatures can be said to match the colours of soil in the corresponding areas of China: the bluish-grey water-logged soils of the east, the reddish iron-rich soils of the south, the whitish saline soils of the western deserts, the black organic-rich soils of the north, and the yellow soils from the central ...
Asterisms (Chinese name) Romanization: Translation: Western star name: Chinese star name: Romanization: Translation: Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀) 井 Jǐng: Well: 軍市 Jūnshì: Market for Soldiers β CMa [1] 軍市一: Jūnshìyī: 1st star ν 3 CMa [1] 軍市二: Jūnshìèr: 2nd star 15 CMa: 軍市三: Jūnshìsān: 3rd star ...
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Western star name Chinese star name Romanization Translation; Three Enclosures (三垣) 紫微垣 Zǐ Wēi Yuán: Purple Forbidden enclosure: 紫微左垣 ...