The modern constellation
Sculptor
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
is not included in the
Three Enclosures
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 t ...
and
Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional
Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based on the work of
Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit missionary
Johann Adam Schall von Bell in the late
Ming Dynasty,
this constellation has been classified as one of the 23
Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, ''Jìnnánjíxīngōu'') under the name
Firebird
Firebird and fire bird may refer to:
Mythical birds
* Phoenix (mythology), sacred firebird found in the mythologies of many cultures
* Bennu, Egyptian firebird
* Huma bird, Persian firebird
* Firebird (Slavic folklore)
Bird species
''Various spe ...
(火鳥, ''Huōdiǎo''), together with the stars in
Phoenix.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 玉夫座 (''yù fū zuò''), meaning "jade worker constellation".
Stars
The map of Chinese constellation in constellation Sculptor area consists of :
See also
*
Chinese astronomy
*
Traditional Chinese star names
*
Chinese constellations
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 t ...
References
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Astronomy in China
Sculptor (constellation)