Talk:Chinese astrology
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Template:Onlinesource2004 Oh, I guess the shichen is not called like 'rat', 'ox' etc, but rather 'zi', 'chou', 'yan', 'mao' etc...Am I right? --yacht (Talk) 05:05, Dec 19, 2003 (UTC)
- Yeah, not sure where that correspondence is from. That guy also put it in Earthly Branches. --Menchi (Talk)â 06:03, 19 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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See also: Wikipedia:Wikipedia_as_a_press_source
"Happy Chinese New Year (http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2004/01/22/columns/columns01.txt)" (Coeur d'Alene Press, United States, January 22) Sholeh Patrick recommends wikipedia's Chinese zodiac if you want to know more about years of monkeys and rats, and so on.
Incomplete Table
In my opinion, the table is of little use if it does not include recent years.--Feitclub 02:50, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
- The table has two sets of "begin & end" columns, and includes years from 1900 to 2020. (It could certainly stand to be reformatted to make that clearer.) DenisMoskowitz 16:37, 2005 Feb 28 (UTC)
This article should be merged with Sexagesimal cycle. - ChongDae
discrepancy
I might have found an error. On the Chinese constellation page, it say the constellation (斗 pinyin:dǒu), literal translation "dipper," is actually nearest to Sagittarius in the western sky. Sagittarius is Ra 19h, dec -25°. On this page, it says, "For example, the big dipper (Ursa Major) is known as 斗 dǒu." However, Ursa Major is Ra 10.67h, dec 55.38°. The Chinese constellation dǒu can't be both Sagittarius and Ursa Major, right? Whoever knows what they're doing and can verify one or the other can fix it, because I'm not sure.
(previous was from User:Dauvm and unsigned)
- I think there are actually two dippers in the Chinese sky - I've got some documentation on this at home. I'll try to check it out tonight.DenisMoskowitz 14:34, 2005 May 9 (UTC)
Two dippers in the east asian astrology are: "北斗七星"(north-dipper-seven-star), the big dipper in Ursa Major, and "南斗六星"(south-dipper-six-star) in Sagittarius (ζ, τ, σ, ψ, λ, μ). There are two more. east-five and west-four. But the last two are seldomly used. -- ChongDae 10:01, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
