Astronomy:Winnowing Basket (constellation)

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Short description: Chinese constellation

The Winnowing Basket mansion (箕宿, pinyin: Jī Xiù) is one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the eastern mansions of the Azure Dragon.[1][2][3]

Asterisms

English name Chinese name European constellation Number of stars Representing
Winnowing Basket Sagittarius 4 Azure Dragon's dung, the role of rice bran to farm implements, also means the wind
Chaff Ophiuchus 1 Lift out of bran
Pestle Ara 3 Trace compounds wooden club

References

  1. Stephenson, F. Richard (1994). "13 - Chinese and Korean Star Maps and Catalogs". in Harley, J.B.. The History of Cartography. Part 2. 2. University of Chicago Press. pp. 517. https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V2_B2/HOC_VOLUME2_Book2_chapter13.pdf. 
  2. Penprase, Bryan E. (2017-05-05) (in en). The Power of Stars. Springer. pp. 43. ISBN 978-3-319-52597-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=pQHNDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Extended+Net%22+chinese+astronomy&pg=PA43. 
  3. Xu, Junjun (January 2009). "Ancient Chinese constellations" (in en). Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 5 (S260): 107–115. doi:10.1017/S174392131100319X. ISSN 1743-9221.