The Twenty-eight Chinese Xiu

The Twenty-eight Chinese Xiu

July 25, 2023 Jordan Stewart

Cosmology

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Shapes of constellations in the sky

Around the 11th century BC, during the Zhou Dynasty, people divided the sky into 4 parts, East, West, South, South, North, and at the same time gave them the image of 4 legendary animals (the Four Statues), each part 7 star clusters, a total of 28 star clusters (Two Thirteen Eight Tugs):
East is Thanh Long, comprising 7 clusters:
1.cup includes 4 stars of the cross in the constellation Virgo
2.Cang Includes 4 stars shaped like the constellation Virgo
3.Dyke Composed of 4 constellations of Libra
4.Bedroom Composed of 4 stars in the constellation Scorpio
5.Heart Consists of 3 constellations of Scorpio (including Antares – α Scorpio)
6.Tails includes 9 scorpion tail stars
7.Muscle Composed of 4 constellations Sagittarius
North is Huyen Vu, including:

8.Suspicious Composed of 6 constellations of Sagittarius
9.Bull consists of 6 stars, 3 stars in the constellation Aries, 3 stars in the constellation Sagittarius
ten.Women Composed of 4 stars in the constellation Aquarius
11.Broken consists of 2 stars, 1 star in the constellation Aquarius, 1 star in the constellation Constellation
12.Risk includes 3 stars, 1 star belongs to Aquarius, 2 stars belongs to the constellation of the flying horses
13.The seventh Composed of 2 stars in the constellation of the flying horse
14.Doe consists of 2 stars, 1 star belongs to the constellation Flying Horse, 1 star belongs to the constellation Fairy
West is Bach Ho, comprising:

15.Khue Includes 16 stars in the constellation Pisces
16.Long Composed of 3 stars in the shape of an isosceles triangle in the constellation of Aries
17.Taste 3 stars in the constellation of Aries
18.Hand consists of 7 stars in the Pleiades (Pleiades) cluster in the constellation Taurus
19.Socks includes 8 stars, including 6 stars from the Hyades group, Aldebaran and 1 other star from the constellation Taurus
20.Lord consists of 3 stars in the constellation of the hunter
21.Ginseng consists of 7 stars in the constellation of the Hunter, including Rigel and Betelgeuse
The South is Chu Tuoc, comprising:

22.Aware Composed of 8 stars in the constellation Gemini
23.Devil Composed of 4 stars in the constellation Crab
24.Dose Composed of 8 stars in the constellation of the Sea Serpents
25.Static consists of 7 stars in the constellation of the Sea Serpent, including the star α
26.Truong Composed of 5 arc-shaped stars in the constellation of the Sea Serpents
27.wings consists of 22 stars, 18 stars in the Grail constellation and 4 stars in the Sea Serpent constellation
28.Diagnostic Composed of 4 stars in the constellation of Raven

Image of 28 constellations in the sky when anthropomorphized

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Each star cluster has a main star, called the main star (also the name of the cluster), for example, Giac has the main star Spica, the core has the star Antares…
Not just a way of dividing the sky, the ancient Chinese applied the Twenty-Thirty Eight Tails a lot in daily life, such as: based on the positions of the stars to calculate the meteorological days of the four seasons (for example, at sunset, the star of Sam in the south is January, Tam in the south is in May..); choose the direction of housing in feng shui, the direction of departure… But an exceptional application in the application of Nhi Thap Ba Tu is to calculate the date.

The calculation is quite simple as follows:

How to calculate the octave.

The calendar year has 365 days, or 13 cycles of the Twenty-two Bat Tu (38 x 13=364) plus 1 day, if the year is a leap year, add 2 days. January 1, 1995 is a Sunday under the star star (#11), then January 1, 1996 will be the 2nd day of the moon star (plus 1 day), and January 1, 1997 will be a Wednesday (plus 2 days because 1996 is a leap year).

Another example for you to understand: I was born on February 23, 1995, which is a Saturday belonging to the star Willow (number 24), I want to calculate which day my sister’s date of birth is October 10, 1989, I will have to follow 2 steps:

Step 1 : from 1989 to 1995 is 6 years, 1992 is a leap year, so the star system has moved back to 6 + 1 = 7 stars, i.e. February 23, 1995 is Willow’s 7 (number 24), then February 23, 1989 must reverse 7 stars, which is Venus number 17, also 7.
2nd step : from February 23 to October 10 there are 7 periods of 2 days, February 23, 1989 is Venus (n°17), then October 10, 1989 is the day of Tat (n°19) or Monday (of Venus plus 2 days)
So just knowing an exact timeline, we can calculate any date in the past and future according to the calculation above, in case you don’t have a timeline of other years, it’s not too complicated.

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