''Leu'' (or ''Low'') ''sieu'' () meaning "the Train of a garment", was one of the
twenty-eight lunar mansions of the traditional
Chinese astronomy
Astronomy in China has a long history stretching from the Shang dynasty, being refined over a period of more than 3,000 years. The ancient Chinese people have identified stars from 1300 BCE, as Chinese star names later categorized in the tw ...
. It was one of the
White Tiger
The white tiger or bleached tiger is a leucistic pigmentation variant of the Mainland tiger. It is reported in the wild from time to time in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, in the Sunderbans region and ...
of the West (西方白虎).
The asterisms in the Region of ''Leu'' （婁宿天區）
Notes
See also
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Traditional Chinese star names
Chinese star names ( Chinese: , ''xīng míng'') are named according to ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology. The sky is divided into star mansions (, ''xīng xiù'', also translated as "lodges") and asterisms (, ''xīng guān''). The system of ...
References
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* 大崎正次 (1987). 『中国の星座の歴史』 雄山閣出版.
External links
* 陳冠中, 陳輝�
「中國古代的星象系統 (71)： 婁宿天區」- 天文教育資訊網 (AEEA)
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Chinese constellations