Chinese constellations

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What Wikipedia says

Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese: 星官; pinyin: xīng guān).

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Image: Huang Shang (map), Wang Zhiyuan (engraving), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.