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    • Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese 星官 xīng guān). The Chinese asterisms are generally smaller than the constellations of Hellenistic tradition. The Song dynasty (13th-century) Suzhou planisphere shows a total of 283 asterisms, comprising a total of 1,565 individ… See more

    History

    The Chinese system developed independently from the Greco-Roman system since at least the 5th century BC, although … See more

    Terminology

    The Chinese word for "star, heavenly body" is 星 xīng. The character 星 originally had a more complicated form: 曐, a phono-semantic character (形聲字) whose semantic portion, 晶, originally depicting three twinkl… See more

    Three Enclosures

    The Three Enclosures are the Purple Forbidden enclosure (, Zǐ Wēi Yuán), the Supreme Palace enclosure (, Tài Wēi Yuán) and the Heavenly Market enclosure (, Tiān Shì Yuán).
    The Purple … See more

    Chinese star names

    Ancient Chinese astronomers designated names to the visible stars systematically, roughly more than one thousand years before Johann Bayer did it in a similar way. Basically, every star is assigned to an asterism. T… See more

    Further reading

    Book of Jin, volume 11–13 (晉書·天文志)
    Huainanzi, volume 3 (淮南子·天文訓) See more

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