Flying Serpent (''Tengshe'' 螣蛇) is an
asterism (name for a group of stars) in the constellation "
Encampment
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" (''Shixiu'' 室宿) in the
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 ...
system. It is named after the mythological serpent, ''
tengshe''.
The ''Tengshe'' asterism was a group of "22 stars, occurring in the northern
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of 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
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'').
The Tengshe coincides with the lizard constellation
Lacerta
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,
and the northern parts of Lacerta occupy the center of Tengshe.
References
Chinese constellations
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