Encampment (Chinese constellation)

Shì Xiù map

The Encampment mansion (Chinese: 室宿; pinyin: Shì Xiù) is one of the 28 mansions of the Chinese constellations.[1] It is one of the northern mansions of the Black Tortoise.[2]

  1. ^ Xu Duoduo (2016). "Lunar mansion names in South-West China: An etymological reconstruction of ancestral astronomical designations in Moso, Pumi, and Yi cultures compared with Chinese and Tibetan contexts". Onoma. 51: 113–143. doi:10.34158/onoma.51/2016/6. ISSN 0078-463X.
  2. ^ Xu, Junjun (2011). "Ancient Chinese constellations". adsabs.harvard.edu. Bibcode:2011IAUS..260..107X. Retrieved 2022-05-19.