Stomach (Chinese constellation)

The Stomach mansion (胃宿, pinyin: Wèi Xiù) is one of the twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the western mansions of the White Tiger.

Wèi Xiù map

Asterisms

English nameChinese nameEuropean constellationNumber of starsRepresenting
StomachAries3Stomach, fingers and granary
Celestial Foodstuff天廩Taurus4The barn
Circular Celestial Granary天囷Cetus13The round barn
Mausoleum大陵Perseus8The mausoleum
Celestial Boat天船Perseus9General big warships, or the ship has sailed galaxy
Heap of Corpses積屍Perseus/Camelopardalis1The body within the tomb
Stored Water積水Perseus1The stored-water ship
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