The fortune telling of the twelve constellations is left over by the ancients! Why does Su Shi say that Capricorn is bad?

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A must-have topic for contemporary young people to chat: constellation! uses constellations to analyze personality, uses constellations to see marriage, uses constellations to measure luck...

But don’t think that exploring the mysterious relationship between constellations and destiny is an exclusive topic for modern people. In fact, as early as a thousand years ago, the ancients Just talk about the constellation, the great writer Su Shi in the Song Dynasty is still the black fan of Capricorn!

The ancients also love to talk about the constellation

. As we all know, the great literati Su Shi had a bad life, and the Wutai poem case almost lost his head. He had three ups and downs in his life, Huangzhou, Huizhou and Danzhou.

Su Shi believed that the reason why his life was so bad was caused by the constellations! Su Shi wrote in "Dongpo Zhilin·Mingfen": Han Yu is a Capricorn, and his life is not good. Like Han Yu, he is a Capricorn. Both of us are not good. "Capricorns have a bad life." .

The poem of retreat, my birthday, the moon is straight. It is the scorpion who knows to retreat as the body palace, and the servant is the one who grinds the scorpion for life, and there are many slander in his life, and it is almost the same disease! Su Shi


Because of Su Shi's influence, later on, as long as the literati felt that they were unlucky, they would buckle the poop on the Capricorn head. Just like people love Black Virgo, the ancients love Black Capricorn, and Su Shi is the number one "black fan" who provoked the Black Capricorn trend. Not only do I ridicule myself, but even friends who meet Capricorns have to resist saying: Hey, brother, maybe your life is worse than mine!

Under the leadership of the great writer Su Shi, countless Capricorn poets complained that they had the wrong time when they wrote poems or wrote letters to friends, and the star palace was unsatisfactory, so there are so many disasters in their lives. Just like the Southern Song dynasty Fang Dacong wrote the channel "Only the palace where the scorpion visits, there is the saying that there is a punishment of the son and the mao" , and the poetry "Gu Yuming also sits and grinds the scorpion, and Lululang follows the second son" , the second public refers to Han Yu and Su Shi.

Capricorn

not only self-deprecating Capricorns, even literati who are not Capricorns will attribute the cause to Capricorns when their fate is bad. The Southern Song Dynasty poet Zhou Bida once lamented that he and Han Yu and Su Shi "the stars are the same", both belong to Capricorn, and hit "it is advisable to retreat but not to enter" . But in fact Zhou Bida is actually an Aquarius! But this does not affect his sorrow for Capricorn. Anyway, as long as he has no talent, he is a Capricorn. It is true that Wen Tianxiang, Zeng Guofan, and Li Hongzhang have all thoughts.

In ancient times, Capricorns have been hacked into "tortures".

My birthday, the moon, and the battle, how to slander the reputation from Jikou

Yueming is only a close eye, why do you need to fight according to the wine "Five Poems for Yu Yuexin" Wen Tianxiang

Zeng Guofan

"When he arrives, he will be able to tell the truth, and his age will grind the scorpion palace." Li Hongzhang

z13 The origin of

The constellation has a long history, first from the astronomical records of Babylon, and the Babylonians call it the "Zodiac The Zodiac” was then spread to Greece, and then from Greece to Tianzhu (now India). In the 6th century AD, the twelve constellations were spread from Tianzhu to China along with Buddhist scriptures.

The earliest existing documentary records on constellations can be traced back to the Sui Dynasty. In the early years of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty, a monk from Tianzhu brought a copy of "Mahayana and Dafang et al.", which recorded the god of Sagittarius, the god of Capricorn, The god of water vessels, the god of crabs, the god of lions, the god of goddess, the special sheep, the special cow, the twin birds...

is the god of shooting in September, and the god of exhaustion in October. The month is November, the god of water vessels is the month, and December, the god of the sky fish is the month

​​Su Shi’s Capricorn is first called "Exhaustion", "Scorpion", "Exhaustion", which is Brahman The word "Magala" means whale. In ancient times, there have been many translations of the names of related constellations. For example, the names of the twelve constellations were translated as: Lion, Centaur, Capricorn, Aquarius, Gemini, Cancer, Cow, Sheep, Fish, Yin and Yang, Yin and Yang refer to Gemini.

It wasn't until the late Qing Dynasty that the 27-year-old Kang Youwei wrote "Speaking of the Heavens", changing Yin and Yang to Gemini, and Gemini to Virgo, and so on. The twelve constellations were fixed to the names we now know. Now we are discussing the twelve constellations except Names and ancient timesApart from the difference, there are basically no other differences.

Kang Youwei

In short, the twelve constellations are not a modern topic of western style. Thousands of years ago, people in the Song Dynasty used it to estimate fortune-telling and fortune. They also talk about the twelve constellations when chatting, just like the two gossiping with our friends. The constellations are particularly the same, and the ancients even left the constellations.

Southern Song Dynasty bronze Capricorn penholder

Southern Song Dynasty bronze Capricorn penholder


Yaozhou kiln celadon Capricorn-shaped water bowl

Yaozhou kiln celadon Capricorn-shaped water bowl

Dunhuang Mogao cave 61 murals can be seen clearly. There are Pisces, Cancer, and the famous tomb of Zhang Shiqing from the Liao Dynasty. The painter painted 28 stars and 12 constellations on the top of the tomb. Among them, the Gemini figures are still wearing Chinese clothes. It seems that we have played with the rest of the ancients. .


Yongdao South Wall—Twenty-Eight Places and Zodiac—Yuan Dynasty


Zhang Shiqing’s tomb top twenty-eight constellations and Zodiac diagram


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