Not long ago, Jin Canrong questioned the ancient Greek civilization and Aristotle, and unsurprisingly ushered in a bunch of "bricks", such as being criticized for "academic Boxers", "anti-intellectual", "populism", "self-congratulatory", etc. In short, from the point of view of "words must be called ancient Greece" and "words must be called the West", questioning Chinese history is called "independent thinking", and questioning Western history is "anti-science".
In fact, it is not that Chinese cannot "admit that others are better", it is not that they cannot accept that the West has always been bullish, but that the ancient history of the West does have many problems, often contrary to normal logic, such as the "Tianguan guest star" discussed in this article, European documents are very "abnormal", so it cannot but make people doubt Western history.
In July of the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty, that is, in 1054 AD, the court astronomer Yang Weide discovered a great change in the stars, and found an extremely shining new star during the day. Because it suddenly appeared in the direction of Tianguan (Taurus), the ** of the Song Dynasty Si Tianjian named it "Tianguan Guest Star", which means to be a guest of Tianguan Star.
Song Hui Yao recorded: "On July 22 of the first year of Zhihe, the guard general was the supervisor and sent a message to Yang Weide: I saw the guest star appear, and there was a slight brilliance on the star, yellow. At the beginning, in May of the first year of the solstice, the morning rises in the east, guards the heavens, and sees the day as if it is too white, and the mangjiao is out in all directions, the color is red and white, and it is seen on the twenty-third day. It is also recorded in historical materials such as the Song Shiren Zongbenji and the Astronomical Chronicles, and the Long Compilation of the Continuation of the Zhitong Jian.
According to the literature, the Tianguan Guest Star was visible during the day for 23 days, and at night for a year and ten months, after which it disappeared. In the eyes of modern people, Tianguan Kexing is actually a supernova explosion, and the remnants it leaves behind are today's Crab Nebula.
There is no doubt that the "Tianguan Guest Star" is a major change in the astrological phenomenon, and it lasts for a relatively long time, and it is visible in the daytime, and any civilization or country with astronomical tradition will not miss it, and it will inevitably be recorded, which is normal historical logic.
However, there are records in China, there are records in Arabia, but there is no record in Europe. It wasn't until the 17th century that Davis saw a fog there—the remains of the Tianguan Kexing** formed the Crab Nebula, which was included in the Messier Catalog in 1774 as the No. 1 celestial object.
According to Western historical narratives, before the Renaissance obtained the ancient Greek classics, although Western astronomy developed slowly and theology was dominant, the reason why astronomy was still listed as a compulsory subject during this period was mainly to teach people to learn to calculate the date of Easter. In other words, because of the astronomical tradition in Europe, ancient Greek astronomy could be inherited later.
Also, in 45 B.C., the ancient Rome established the Julian calendar, which divided the year into 12 months, a leap in four years, 365 days in a common year, and 366 days in a leap year to add a leap day at the end of February of that year, with an average annual length of 365On the 25th, the calendar was used until 1582. The fact that the Julian calendar has always been used indicates that there must have been people in Europe who knew about astronomy at that time. (The Julian calendar is half a century later than the Taichu calendar at the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and one year of the Taichu calendar is equal to 365.)2502 days).
The question is: since there are astronomical and astronomical officials in Europe, and at least they attach great importance to it, it is reasonable to observe and record the Tianguan guest stars, which is the most normal logic, but in fact why is it not?
If it is just a general astrological sign, there may be a phenomenon of omission, but a major astrological change like the Tianguan guest star is obviously difficult to convince people to say that it is missing. Since it is unlikely that it is missing, what is the reason?
The truth is hard to know, but the contradiction of emphasizing astronomy without documenting major astrological phenomena is puzzling, and it casts doubt on the Western narrative of history, because it is so unconscionable.
Finally, there are three other points worth mentioning about the topic of this article:
First of all, according to the Western historical narrative, ancient European astronomy is extremely brilliant, such as ancient Greek astronomy, and ancient Roman Julian calendar, but it is said that the first astronomical observatory in Europe was established by Tycho, Denmark, in 1576. There is no long-term observation of fixed-point observatories, but there is extremely brilliant astronomy, as well as advanced calendars
Secondly, the major astrological phenomena since the Zhou Dynasty, as long as they can be seen, are basically recorded in Chinese literature. However, it is difficult to understand that Western narratives speak of the glory of ancient astronomy while omitting major astrological signs. In fact, similar phenomena have emerged in Western history one after another, is it because ancient Western civilization is too "special", or is there another reason?
Third, many people today question Western history, which actually has nothing to do with reality, but because there are indeed too many contrary to common sense in Western history, such as the fact that there is no record of Tianguan Kexing in Europe, so if people want not to question it, defenders must first give reasonable explanations or evidence, otherwise this kind of questioning will only get louder and louder.