Winnowing Basket (Chinese constellation)

The Winnowing Basket mansion (箕宿, pinyin: Jī Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the eastern mansions of the Azure Dragon.

Asterisms

English name Chinese name European constellation Number of starsRepresenting
Winnowing Basket Sagittarius 4Azure Dragon's dung, the role of rice bran to farm implements, also means the wind
Chaff Ophiuchus 1Lift out of bran
Pestle Ara 3Trace compounds wooden club
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