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One of the seven mansions of the Vermilion Bird of the South.

Group
Vermilion Bird of the South
Weekday planet
Moon
Animal
Deer
Branch
午
Building
Good
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Its place among the twenty-eight

張六星,主珍寶、宗廟所用及衣服,又主天廚飲食賞齎之事。

Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy

What it is

Treasures, temple goods and feasts.

In the almanac

The almanac gives each day one mansion in a fixed cycle. Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu traces the day-by-day count to an old Western Regions text on the seven planets. The Building row is from the Yu Xia Ji, which rates each mansion for building work.

Sources Jin Shu, Treatise on Astronomy; Xie Ji Bian Fang Shu, vol. 1; Yu Xia Ji.