Project：[Mythology-Almanac Twelve Gods 3D PV and Chapter MingTang]

So here's the deal for my animation: When the Imperial Observatory spoke of the "Seven-Star Conjunction," it referred to the naked-eye visible planets: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, sometimes counting the Sun and Moon as planets too, calling them the "Seven Luminaries."

The "conjunction" (sometimes "alignment") is the celestial phenomenon people observed in the night sky. In ancient times, a "Five-Star Conjunction" or "Five-Star Gathering" wasn't just about all five being visible simultaneously. They had to be clustered closely together within a small area of the sky. The ancients had already figured out that the Sun, Moon, and these five planets all moved near the ‌ecliptic‌. The ecliptic is the path the Sun appears to trace across the stellar background—a great circle. It's ‌not "a straight line"‌; from Earth, it looks like a vast arc spanning the heavens.

Also, the ‌Vermilion Bird‌ represents the south, symbolizing vitality and life force. But, funny enough, in folk culture, it's often associated with quarrels... (Maybe the Vermilion Bird finds it a bit helpless, haha!).

And the traditional almanac (Huangli) was used for ‌"choosing"‌ auspicious times, not for daily reading. And the Imperial Astronomers who devised all this adhered to the principle of ‌"protecting life to coexist,"‌ loving heaven and earth with a gentle order.

P.S. In my work today, there's a sample draft of one of the Mingtang official robes, along with an omake I haven't had time to animate yet.

For those who don't remember that 4-minute 2D PV animation of mine, you can check out the earlier one—I won't be posting it again after the 3D PV. Currently, four gods have been created... to be continued...