Chinese cosmology · Chinese transcription
Huainanzi · Tianwen xun
Huainanzi, chapter 3
The chapter on celestial patterns connects directions, seasons, five phases and stem pairs. It supplies the historical stem–phase facts in the Chinese calendar study.
Open the source text ↗Where to begin
Find the paragraph beginning 何謂五星 for the five directional settings, and 甲乙寅卯 for the explicit stem–phase pairs.
Keep in mind
This is a community Chinese transcription, revision 7909148, rather than a collated critical edition or an English translation. Only the relevant correspondence passages were checked here. Ancient physical explanations and divinatory claims are historical material, not findings of modern astronomy.