二十八宿对应的天文地理分野,是以族群所崇拜的图腾为重要依据。分布在四方的二十八宿与地上四方的方国地域相对应,其中有部分不相符,是因族人迁移或异地建国,仍要依据其所崇祀的图腾。另外,作为二十八宿最后一宿的轸,其含义过去一直被释为车,仅是其一。轸宿星名还有更深的另一层含义,是象征南方楚地的轸国,轸国也即曾国。%In the ancient China people set the constellations of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions near the ecliptic to correspond to some enfeoffed states.The underlying significance of this correspondence is that a common totem as represented by a constellation was worshiped by people in an area.Some ancient groups of people in the south corresponded to the constellations in the north because these groups of people had migrated,and after the migration they still used their totems as the identifying standards.One more intriguing issue is that the Lunar Mansion ＂Zhenxiu＂ has been consistently translated as the ＂lintel beneath a carriage body in the sky.＂ In our view,it has a more profound meaning,namely,the state ＂Zeng.＂ The state ＂Zeng＂ was only one of many small states.The state ＂Zeng＂ completed the notion of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions earlier than others so that the constellation was named after it due to this contribution.
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