Tian Dajiangjun () is a

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 Hellenisti ...

() in the region of '' Lóu'' (). It contains 11 or 12 stars, in the Western constellations Andromeda and

Triangulum Triangulum is a small constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for "triangle", derived from its three brightest stars, which form a long and narrow triangle. Known to the ancient Babylonians and Greeks, Triangulum was one of the 48 ...

. Its name is translated as "Heaven's Great General" or "Celestial Grand General". In older Western sources its name was transliterated as ''Teen Ta Tseang Keun'' or ''Tëen ta tsëang keun''. R. H. Allen based identification of Chinese star names by the English astronomer John Williams (1797–1874) and the naturalist John Reeves. But Allen lacked last word ''kuen'' as ''Tien Ta Tseang'' and also transliterated it as ''Tsien Ta Tseang''.Allen (1963): p.416.

Identification of stars

; Notes ^＊ 54 And is designated as φ Per in recent times.

Notes

References

* * 大崎正次 (1987): 「中国の星座・星名の同定一覧表」『中国の星座の歴史』雄山閣出版, p. 326. * 陳久金 (2005): 『中國星座神話』台灣書房出版有限公司. . Chinese constellations