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Flying Serpent (asterism)
Flying Serpent (''Tengshe'' 螣蛇) is an asterism (name for a group of stars) in the constellation "Encampment" (''Shixiu'' 室宿) in the Chinese constellation system. It is named after the mythological serpent, '' tengshe''. The ''Tengshe'' asterism was a group of "22 stars, occurring in the northern artof the "Encampment" () constellation, epresenting; or comprising the figure ofthe Heavenly Snake, chief of the water reptiles", according to the treatise on astronomy in the ''Book of Jin'' (''Jin Shu''). The Tengshe coincides with the lizard constellation Lacerta Lacerta is one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. Its name is Latin for lizard. A small, faint constellation, it was defined in 1687 by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its brightest stars form a "W" ..., and the northern parts of Lacerta occupy the center of Tengshe. References Chinese constellations {{China-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asterism (astronomy)
An asterism is an observed pattern or group of stars in the sky. Asterisms can be any identified pattern or group of stars, and therefore are a more general concept than the formally defined 88 constellations. Constellations are based on asterisms, but unlike asterisms, constellations outline and today completely divide the sky and all its celestial objects into regions around their central asterisms. For example, the asterism known as the Big Dipper comprises the seven brightest stars in the constellation Ursa Major. Another is the asterism of the Southern Cross, within the constellation of Crux. Asterisms range from simple shapes of just a few stars to more complex collections of many stars covering large portions of the sky. The stars themselves may be bright naked-eye objects or fainter, even telescopic, but they are generally all of a similar brightness to each other. The larger brighter asterisms are useful for people who are familiarizing themselves with the night sky. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encampment (Chinese Constellation)
The Encampment mansion () is one of the 28 mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise The Black Tortoise () is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. Despite its English name, it is usually depicted as a tortoise entwined together with a snake. The name used in East Asian languages does not mention either anima .... Asterisms References {{DEFAULTSORT:Encampment (Chinese Constellation) Chinese constellations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Constellation
Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese ''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 individual stars. The asterisms are divided into four groups, the Twenty-Eight Mansions (, ''Èrshíbā Xiù'') along the ecliptic, and the Three Enclosures of the northern sky. The southern sky was added as a fifth group in the late Ming Dynasty based on European star charts, comprising an additional 23 asterisms. The Three Enclosures (, ''Sān Yuán'') include the Purple Forbidden Enclosure, which is centered on the north celestial pole and includes those stars which could be seen year-round,Needham, J.Astronomy in Ancient and Medieval China. ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London''. Series A, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teng (mythology)
''Teng'' () or ''Tengshe'' (; lit. "soaring snake") is a flying dragon in Chinese mythology. Names This legendary creature's names include ''teng'' "a flying dragon" (or ''te'' "a plant pest") and ''tengshe'' "flying-dragon snake" or "soaring snake". Teng The Chinese character for ''teng'' or ''te'' graphically combines a phonetic element of ''zhen'' "I, we (only used by emperors)" with the "insect radical" . This radical is typically used in characters for insects, worms, reptiles, and dragons (e.g., '' shen'' "a sea-monster dragon" or ''jiao'' "an aquatic dragon"). The earliest written form of ''teng'' is a (ca. 3rd century BCE) Seal script character written with the same radical and phonetic. ''Teng'' has two etymologically cognate Chinese words written with this ''zhen'' phonetic and different radicals: ''teng'' (with the "water radical" ) "gush up; inundate; Teng (state); a surname" and ''teng'' (with the "horse radical" ) "jump; gallop; prance; mount; ascend; f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jin Shu
The ''Book of Jin'' is an official Chinese historical text covering the history of the Jin dynasty from 266 to 420. It was compiled in 648 by a number of officials commissioned by the imperial court of the Tang dynasty, with chancellor Fang Xuanling as the lead editor, drawing mostly from official documents left from earlier archives. A few essays in volumes 1, 3, 54 and 80 were composed by the Tang dynasty's Emperor Taizong himself. However, the contents of the ''Book of Jin'' included not only the history of the Jin dynasty, but also that of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, which was contemporaneous with the Eastern Jin dynasty. Compilation Over 20 histories of the Jin had been written during the Northern and Southern dynasties, of which 18 were still extant at the beginning of the Tang dynasty. Yet Emperor Taizong deemed them all to be deficient and ordered the compilation of a new standard history for the period,Fang, Xuanling ''ed.''(2002). ''Jinshu'' 晋书. Beijing: Zhongh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lacerta
Lacerta is one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. Its name is Latin for lizard Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt .... A small, faint constellation, it was defined in 1687 by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its brightest stars form a "W" shape similar to that of Cassiopeia (constellation), Cassiopeia, and it is thus sometimes referred to as 'Little Cassiopeia'. It is located between Cygnus (constellation), Cygnus, Cassiopeia and Andromeda (constellation), Andromeda on the northern celestial sphere. The northern part lies on the Milky Way. Notable features Lacerta is typical of Milky Way constellations: no bright galaxy, galaxies, nor globular clusters, but instead open clusters, for example NGC 7243, the faint planetary n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
