Constellation Legends

 Speaker Profile: Mrs Sheng-yun: Beijing Normal University professor of astronomy, history of astronomy for many years of painstaking research, has achieved fruitful results, with a Our eyes wander among the bright stars, those stars and star magic combination that left us a mysterious constellation of graphics, have been human caused endless reverie and vision. those constellations of images, memories of childhood in the human has left the event in a. and in a few years later, when we re-examine the scientific eye, when the universe, they found that those who sign it once the door of our boarding ladder of the universe.
constellation produced, for The universe is a milestone in human understanding. When you know the sky after the constellation that is beyond understanding, so people used to know the stars season changes. You can come to know through the constellation of changes in seasons, which occur in the summer stars, which star in the winter there, this is very regular, and when people know the signs, he will use to determine the constellation of the season, we Chinese have a very good way is to use the Big Dipper's bucket, then we in the book before the Han Dynasty inside there is recorded: The struggle to which direction to point it, I can know what season. but also in recognition of the sign, so there are many astronomical records, then recorded in the ancient stuff, and now is still the best use of modern astrophysicists information. So, from two sense, the constellation it is produced, for the universe is a milestone in human knowledge.
excavation of the zodiac, or is the understanding of the zodiac, the solar system is opened a milestone in the movement of celestial bodies in the solar system, understanding the process of movement of celestial bodies, it plays a very important role.
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talking about constellations, everyone is familiar with the Star, because you at night looked to the sky look, you'll see a lot of stars. then these stars can cause us a lot of imagination, but, if we ask a question, saying that I know what these signs mean? so in the present case, this constellation is there any value? a problem after that what does that mean? say when we are using telescopes to observe the sky, the time for it, the constellation is not so important. Why? because the sky with a telescope when observing , which is the position of each star, similar to each location on our planet of its latitude, longitude input into it, lose to the computer inside. so that the computer it will command the telescope, point to the star. so long as We know the latitude and longitude of its star, then the use of modern telescopes, it can automatically find the stars.
Having said that, in the era of the telescope, the constellations, its meaning is not so important. but not One reason for this, sign it without charm. because of the constellation now it has become the general public loved a cultural phenomenon. so it should now be said to be linked with the culture thing, it is a relic of history This is a. So in that sense, it has the timeless charm of the constellation. We now talk about constellations, we start talking about its source constellation. in the end to the stars from inside the chaotic day, you can stroke some stars years, then according to its shape to recognize them, so slowly produce the constellation, and are familiar with them down, know down. This, for example, you watch a football game, when football players, because you the team that you like very familiar. then you wear each jersey number which you are very familiar with the players, this is the case, regardless of the presence of the player to move to the ground where he, your eyes are quickly will find the players. By the same token, although many of the stars of heaven. But you after a period of time, you are familiar with the special graphics that after the Star inside, just as you know the 10th player, 八号 players. In this case, You will be inside the stars, look for this pattern composed of a few stars, this is the constellation.
However, the constellation which produced the first time should be traced back to early early. in China in a foreign country, as in China, we can distinguish between the day's stars inside some stars to, and look for what it is, this time dating back to when we say? We can now be traced back at least seven thousand years ago. Why do you say? Puyang in Henan because we excavated a tomb is an ancient tomb of a leader, then inside the tomb, useful clam shells placed into a dragon, a tiger, respectively, left and right in his column. and in the human bones below the surface of his feet is also Dengzhe the leg bones is to form the shape of a Big Dipper. So after a study by experts, the dragon is not an ordinary dragon, is the constellation of the sky. is to say our summer When, in the southern sky that we see the shape of stars, seven thousand years ago in ancient China, it has been considered to be a train. in the winter night, it is the south that we will see a Star white tigers, this white tiger and the dragon full of people's imagination. But in ancient China, at this early time, they already have. In fact, inside the ancient civilized countries, these are the same. For example, in Egypt five thousand years ago the pyramid inside the coffin lid on the coffin unearthed it has the sign on the graphics, for example, like the swan is a swan. like this sign, they say it is very early very early, that is, understanding of the constellation. then China, the dragon constellation time is very early, and I say this is that the people know this constellation in the process, because it is in the Neolithic Age, such a period, so that civilization is undergoing a period of began to recognize the constellation of stars inside. Well, this has very important significance. We think, their thinking with our modern way of thinking is different, because it was the people for the sky with an awe. because they feel that many important things happen from out of the sky, then thought he said there is an invisible force, it is the power of fear, it comes from the sky. So, these signs are often linked just like God. So in China, to said with some tribal totem of the tribe admired something, a tribal totem, also produced inside the constellation. So it is a sign from birth, is to have an important force, people are afraid of it, very afraid . Of course there are some signs that people left a good impression, we now say in this figure, we spring, we can see, I say to you look at this constellation.
then the constellation is called the Great Bear constellation, we Chinese people have long recognized the seven stars. this place has a bucket-like the seven stars, and we do call it the Big Dipper. We all know that Big Dipper, then use the middle of these two Compass stars we can link up to find the North Star. Therefore, we consider stars of the Dipper in the process, played a very important role. But in China, such a constellation, it is called the Big Dipper, in foreign countries, put it into a bear to imagine, is a the shape of bears. We give one such example, that in fact there are many constellations in the sky, it is people continue to accumulate knowledge in the process of down. In different cultures inside, so these stars, which have different name. Since this constellation has been generated, then there is a problem in the following that you have on any evaluation of the constellation. constellation or constellations have occurred in the course of the universe of human knowledge, should be a milestone event. is that when people recognize the constellations of stars, this matter is very important in the history of the universe we know where it should be a landmark event. you light so that you can convince me? why it is a landmark event What is your reason for this, so I am now, to point out two points, to illustrate this matter.
the first point when you realize the sky after the constellation is to know the future, then people will know by this star the seasonal changes. of course, that the seasons change, you know, say that you will feel. the winter cold, summer heat, and that you will feel. so people on the first calendar or the original understanding of the seasons, depends on people feeling, and you see the phenomenon, for example, leaves fall, the leaves grow, the grass grows, the grass brown, and so some of phenological phenomena, it is to feel. In addition, through their own personal experience, too hot a too cold, but this calendar it is unstable. For example, say that this year this spring to hot so early, particularly fast, it said in the spring of this year, due to temperature change, is likely very short, very short . However, this is entirely by people's feelings, this is not reliable, but one thing it can be more reliable, it is the season of the Star is not the same. You can come to know through the constellation of changes in seasons. What are the stars In the summer there, which stars in the winter, this is very regular. When people know the signs, he will use to determine the constellation of the season. We Chinese have a very good way is to use the Big Dipper's bucket, We now see that the Big Dipper's bucket. then we inside the book before the Han Dynasty had recorded, he said, refers to the East the world are shank spring shank guide to the world all summer, all the world shank refers to the West fall shank refers to the North the world are in winter. says that we know the four seasons, they rely on the Big Dipper's bucket put, it points to that direction, I can know what season.
so, too, in the West also have the same things to it. For example, said that the 13th century BC Babylon, we know that Babylonian Hammurabi dynasty, which is a very famous king. then in his time, the zodiac, he said the twelve zodiac signs has been fixed. so people know sign, he was early. and understanding of the constellation I said, and in the course of the universe of human knowledge is an important milestone. One of the reasons, since the constellation we know not the feel of the season, but relying on an astronomical phenomenon, to finalize it. then we would like to say, four stars changes reflect what is it? actually reflect the sun's movement in space, then the earth around the sun. Therefore, the sun in fact reflects the movement in space of the Earth in different locations throughout the year. it is only in entering into the astronomical phenomena to determine the time of the season before the season really into science, you can really science division season. Therefore, understanding the constellation to determine the season, this matter in the universe, the process of human knowledge, it should be an important event.
second because I know the signs say, so many astronomical phenomena recorded, then the things recorded in the ancients, to astrophysicists are still available to the modern data. I can give you an example, say in the Song Dynasty, we have a record inside Sung is Sung to and in the first year, in the days off this place out of a guest star, guest star is off the guests. In fact this thing was recorded in a supernova event, that is, at that time, there is a supernova exploded. As a result of the constellation, that is what it tells you this days off in the vicinity of the Taurus in the modern-day off. Therefore, the event is occurring in the year 1054, now, in this place to see anything at all? see the Crab Nebula, also said that we now find that the first a neutron star, that is, inside the Crab Nebula. If there is no sign, though the ancient records that this is a supernova, you do not know where the outbreak. But now, thanks to the constellation, we recorded very detail. So, we now know the outbreak of the sinking in 1054 supernova, and now has become a neutron star and its surroundings there is a very nice nebula associated with it. So, from two sense, constellation it is produced, for the universe is a milestone in human knowledge. I think now, we can agree with this view. because we have the facts can explain this matter.
second point I want to talk about the zodiac. We now come to take a look at the zodiac, zodiac now and see more clearly. So now is the yellow color around this road lined with twelve constellations, the twelve constellations that The so-called Zodiac, or the twelve constellations. So now is because we are not necessarily involved in astronomy, I used a term, clear, what is the ecliptic, you revisit what the zodiac. It makes me even ecliptic is what I do not know, you speak the twelve constellations, it is difficult to understand, is not it. so I must first explain what here the zodiac. If the ecliptic we use such a word to explain, we all could easily understand. is that if the Earth to the orbital plane, you extended to the sky, the plane called the ecliptic, which is understandable. said Earth to the orbital plane of our unlimited expansion, make a plane, then it can be formed in the sky a plane. This plane is the ecliptic plane, in fact we know the ancient people who are not so understanding of the ecliptic. Because the earth around the sun the process, you do not feel the earth moving. you only see the sun moving, so the sun in the sky are arranged in the year of this track is the ecliptic. So the ecliptic ecliptic is that people know the sun is the first year in the sky formed in such a trajectory, called the ecliptic. so the meaning of the zodiac, we now see. say the sun every month to stay in a constellation. so he can say, is a understanding of an important constellation. Now, I specialized in the ecliptic to talk about the twelve constellations.
I would like to say a word, the discovery of the zodiac, or is the understanding of the zodiac, We opened the movement of solar system objects is a milestone, or that it is a very important tool. is the zodiac, the solar system in understanding the process of movement of celestial bodies, it plays a very important role. this case, Why? because we know that the solar system planets, for example, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, these planets, it is basically running in the ecliptic, though not exactly in the ecliptic, but they are not from the ecliptic too far. So, when you know when this Zodiac is to know when the twelve constellations, the sun and the moon all the five planets, and now the nine planets, but you can only see the five naked eye planets, that is, Five Elements, the five planets that can only recognize this, the other planets Uranus, Neptune, you need a telescope to see. So, our sun, moon and five planets in the sky its trajectory, there is a reference system, the reference system is the zodiac. In fact, the truth, and as we sit inside the classroom, you say you are sitting in the first few rows of numbers, this said you a horizontal and vertical coordinates are set dead. This is with a seat in the house the location of each point it determined. Now we have the twelve zodiac constellations, no matter where a constellation of heavenly motions, I can record. When the record after because these objects are on the move, it moves the process, when the move to what point, then gradually being recorded. recorded later, people can understand the sun and the moon Operation. of course we China, with China's own way. Ershibasu ancient China, Ershibasu and the zodiac and its function is the same. but, he said it in the West with the twelve constellations, with a Twenty-eight of China constellation. we all know, is the Copernicus of celestial bodies, that is, before Copernicus people thought the sun and the moon, planets are rotating around the earth. So how do they do to find this law of motion? It is because of the zodiac, and China Ershibasu this graphic, you will be able to know the sun and moon star all the time, place it in the sky. So the zodiac and the Chinese Lunar Mansions in the law for the movement of celestial objects disclosure is a very important historical event.
then about twelve constellations, I would like to use such a word, said Constellation is an eternal delight, Why? because in Hong Kong and Taiwan pop star inside, they The so-called inside information, which is an important information, which say they are signs, so many of our young singers are familiar to them, all know what a certain person is the constellation. Thus, the constellation which his own is also a sense of interest. Actually, the reason is very simple, because the sun is a sign inside a month, then of course you were born in what month, say so in your sign also determined. Anyway, twelve months a year, You will not born in the thirteenth month, as we speak of the Gregorian calendar, not about the lunar calendar. So with that said, the zodiac, the twelve constellations that the owner of a constellation in which you are set to die out. not that you in the addition, and then find out what constellations, it is a joke.
then the twelve zodiac constellations, it has a memory approach. I now give you say something, say you want to remember how the twelve constellations in mind? I made up a jingle is to say: Pisces, Aries is a sheep, fish Yangniu child, beef is the Taurus, Gemini child is, fish Yangniu son, crab lion house is Cancer and Leo. In this case, above the six constellations, the following female scales, Virgo and Libra. F scale scorpion horse, is Scorpio and Sagittarius, Jie Aquarius, Capricorn and Aquarius so are the twelve constellations. say you use one of these twelve constellations in fact you row up, I have said, you start from the fish, Pisces the beginning, this would naturally come out to. so you can easily remember the twelve constellations. because people in this themselves, say that they are modern young people in particular, constellation for which he is very interested, so it's popularity also is high. So I said, it is an eternal delight. everyone in the joke being, say so on the familiar twelve sky constellations, the zodiac to naturally learned.
Now, I talk about the constellation in which you were born, I'm a constellation which is best. then this sign is under what circumstances you will feel? I say such a thing, we can understand why so many constellations, and now there are eighty-eight constellations in the day, the twelve zodiac, the day has eighty-eight constellations. This is the International Year of Astronomy 1933 Institute set down. But it is the required process, is the respect for history. say, in history we gradually built up knowledge of the constellation it, by its reference. So now, I want to answer this question, say you this So you can know these constellations constellations, all in your eyes, all in our eyes. Why do you say? our eyes to such a sensitive, we can only see the faintest stars, dark to six other stars. also That is our day, your day in the North is to see your great bar more than two thousand stars, and then the dark stars you can not see. So we nearly three thousand stars in such a range, then some bright star it is a number. These bright stars, it is precisely that it will form some of the graphics, is this like a lion, or anything like that scale, or that like a sheep's head was. spoon then China like wine, then called the Big Dipper, as this number. say simply because you use these bright stars arranged in patterns, to imagine what it is to come out of this constellation. If our eyes are not bad in such a manner, our eyes, is very sensitive to see thirteen other stars, that is those dark star can also be seen, we will be future? day we can see more than four million stars. we can see at least days in the North more than two million 颗Star, more than two million stars,bailey UGG boots, you can find anything in the sign inside it? you can not find it, you can not see the constellation. I say we talk about the meaning of it now, is to have the constellation of knowledge, all because we The sensitivity of the eyes is not enough. If our eyes, increased sensitivity, these signs do not exist in fact. So in fact, say what constellation are the same, in any day in the area who are many, many stars. what I said earlier, if Thirteen other stars you can see, then, the North days, there will be more than two million stars, so you will not see so beautiful patterns, at least to reduce the romantic mood a lot. but it does not matter, our such as the eyes only see six stars, so now we on the outside, you can still see the sign, so I think that this constellation of taste, is eternal.
we Laijiang Jiang first story. The constellation we call Virgo, the Virgo constellation Virgo now, some people do call it Virgo. So the Virgo in the West, it is thought of as a god. then this God is a beautiful goddess, so it can speak a the beautiful goddess. this beautiful goddess named Demeter. The Demeter she is god Cronus children born with the goddess Rhea. then the image of a winged goddess, one of her hands holding a scythe, another hand holding ears of corn. so very beautiful image of Virgo, Virgo Demeter is so to the story, and say ah, the Kronos was the Greek god, then his own , the capacity of a prophet and said he could foresee the future thing. He predicted that he will be overthrown by his children. So, whenever she Rui Yasheng a child, he took the child to eat. then ate a row of five children, when the sixth child was born after his mother in order to protect him, wrapped with a piece of stone. This myth is the myth, you can not use this logic to think that ordinary matter, to use the stone wrapped with an infant. The Lord God Cronos thought it was his sixth child, put the stone on eating in the troubles that this has never lost, that no one would overthrow him. VI children have eaten, in fact, this is the sixth child of Zeus in Greece. So Zeus is his grandmother, the goddess of the earth in Asia, we know that the Earth is called the sub, in fact, the earth goddess. then that Zeus, is lived, and, in his grandmother with the help of Gaia, the earth goddess, and finally overthrew Cronus indeed. then of course after the overthrow, he ordered his father, you have to spit out the five children . So he took the first five children gave threw up. spits out after five children were Hades Hades is the underworld of Hades in charge. Poseidon, which is two, Then there is a Zeus is male. Then the three men, then there are three woman. a woman is the protagonist here, Demeter, she is also the sister of Zeus. In addition, there are both Zeus one sister, Hera, one is Hestia, Hestia is the Kitchen God, just like we like the Chinese Kitchen God, we charge people to do. Then Hera, that is, into days, and also said the wife did the Lord God. So when Demeter did after the Saturnalia, was her in charge of agriculture in charge of the spring to the growth of a variety of things. also chink of water, water poured out and unto the goddess tube. So, when the goddess of the earth, when the parade, lush vegetation and flowers, it is one of prosperity.
Libra is east of Virgo, is a small constellation. it seems like a steelyard, then the scales , inside the myth is that Demeter her. She is also a God of justice charge of earth, so the scale is a measure of good and evil in the sight, which is used to weigh the good and evil world. So the Virgo is also that is fair and competent human thing, so fair and Libra is the sign of a competent, then the second house in the ecliptic, and we're talking about the two signs.
then the third, I want to talk about Aries. Aries is the case, Aries is considered a golden flying sheep, say that it is the golden hair, is formed by the gold. then this is a king in ancient Greece, the king, he told the goddess of the clouds, formed the ruling the country's highest state and a queen,UGGs, who gave birth to a man and a woman, gave birth to two children. The story, it is some human touch. So after the birth of the child, the king saw a glamorous beauty, this flirtatious beauty called Eno. So this time he was a change of heart, so he abandoned the original queen, to marry him this Eno as the new queen. But the intention is not glamorous woman, not only to seize the queen position, but to get rid of these two children. She's the trick to get rid of the child, what is it used? gods need to worship, ritual beheaded the boys need to sacrifice the child. This time his mother is the cloud Goddesses, very sad. just is God, that is, to communicate between God and god is Hermes, he saw this phenomenon, he can not let this tragic happening. So he gave the cloud a golden goddess flying sheep, to bring the two children rode the sheep's body. So the sheep on the fly, when the sheep leap oceans, his sister could not help down to watch. We have this experience, if you are at very high altitude, do not look below if you would not do, if you looked below it, very faint. then his sister is looked down inside himself to fall into the ocean, but her his son was saved. so Zeus for praise, recognition of the performance of gold sheep, so put it into the sky, so it was Aries, these stories help us to know these signs.
our second story He stresses the assassination of this great hero Claes, He assassination Claes is a great hero of ancient Greece, in fact, he is also the ancient Greek god Zeus children. Then He assassination Claes his heroic achievements are many, but I story with the stars talk about the story. I think, He established credit assassination Claes inside, some of which is the case, said Zeus was unfaithful, he is a faithless husband, of course, on the day of Hera very angry, very angry, to want the child put to death. From this child birth, she told him make it difficult, give him to find some toxic, all powerful such animals, to want to hurt the children. So when He assassination Claes eight months time, Hera sent two snakes to, but the serpent is to bite the child. but this child has a god, that is, eight months, when he This two snakes to strangle the. This has a Hydra in the sky, then it is a commemoration of his performance. So now with the assassination of Claes He has a relationship to the heroic deeds of the constellation, there are Taurus, is a Well, this is very ferocious bison slaughtered He assassination Claes to. The second is called the Mexican Nieya lion lion, this lion is very strong, very strong, so no one can be the enemy. but similar to the Wu Tiger that posture, the He assassination Claes, stunned is to put it into the lions grabbed his neck strangled. the story that He does mainly assassination Claes very brave, very strong, this is a lion.
Another is to have a huge scorpion, scorpion, then was he beheaded, and another one. there is a crab, the crab does, it convoluted, crab is rampant, is not it, it He assassination Claes foot bite. But the crab that Hera sent a crab it is toxic, so is the bite of the He assassination Claes, after bite, crabs caught him, and you are still difficult to cast of the So he used his stick about the crab that broke. So now in the sky, these two animals are in heaven. Scorpio is a huge piece of the scorpion, Scorpio. Leo, ink Nieya lion, Leo in the sky. Then there are Taurus, Cancer, there is just said. In this case, we talked about the four inside the ecliptic constellations.
the God of our forests in terms of a story. mountains of God, and his messenger Hull Hermes one of his children. have a feast on the sudden appearance of a big monster, big monster, a hundred heads, is a big snake. very large, the gods have done for the embodiment of escape, have fled the changed . where we slow response to the God of the mountains a little, he wanted to run inside from the river, the fish becomes lower body, and upper body have not had time to change, to drill into the water to go inside. So, now that there is a Capricorn, the Capricorn is the image of the fish is a lower body, upper body is a sheep's head. There is also a person in the banquets change very well. Zeus very much appreciated, is the beautiful Aphrodite, she told her son changes into a two fish that ran from the water inside. Later, Zeus these two fish, but also into the sky, which is Pisces. Aquarius, we can see a beautiful boy, is holding a bottle to take down nectar , then the beautiful youth of his responsibilities, is to feast on, to pour, the original job he did not do this, it turned out that the daughter of Zeus, to do live. When this He became immortal after the assassination of Claes, he told days Hera eliminate misunderstanding, and not to eliminate misunderstanding, and he admitted the assassination of Claes He very heroic. so she took her daughter married He assassination Claes, married He assassination Claes, pouring with no people. So Zeus went to find a human who looks very beautiful to bear, so the young men, Gunnison United States Atlantis, was found heaven, heaven after found to do His daughter had to do the job, is to pour. So, is this is just the story of Aquarius we are talking about.
Sagittarius, we look at, this is a very strange animal. is the upper body is human, lower body is a horse, a horse. This is something unique to the Greek myth inside, they called the We have seen this image is Cameroon wing image. Gurkha wing there is a characteristic all-knowing, nothing will not, say that they are a versatile, not only a versatile and good pedagogues, is an educator, He has trained a lot of good people to, say, like Hess Klass. Gemini is the case, macho Zeus is in the parade, when they saw a beautiful woman, see a beauty, he has changed this times change him into a beautiful swan, the swan flew around beautiful women, this beauty is a princess, and then the Princess so lovely to see the swan, and finally it is saying the final affectionate intimacy, letting Zeus succeed. succeeded so She heads back to the palace after the birth of a goose egg because he is the embodiment of a swan. gave birth to goose, goose appeared after the breakdown of two children, is what we see in this graph the two children inside This is Gemini, the son of Zeus, actually said. In this case, we put the story of the twelve constellations on the whole finished.