Tail (Chinese constellation)
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The Tail mansion (尾宿, pinyin: Wěi Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the eastern mansions of the Azure Dragon.
[edit] Asterisms
| English name | Chinese name | European constellation | Number of stars | Representing |
| Tail | 尾 | Scorpius | 9 | Azure Dragon's tail, refer to the temple |
| Changing Room | 神宮 | Scorpius | 1 | Changing rooms in the temple |
| Tortoise | 龜 | Ara | 5 | Galaxy in the turtle, refer to the good and bad |
| Celestial River | 天江 | Ophiuchus | 4 | The silver-river-shaped galaxy |
| Fuyue | 傅說 | Scorpius | 1 | Fuyue was a former slave that became a high-ranking minister to Shang Dynasty ruler, Wu Ding |
| Fish | 魚 | Scorpius | 1 | Fish in the galaxy |
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