What did meteor shower mean in ancient times?
Ancient astrologers attached great importance to the observation of meteor showers. In the seventh year of Zhuang Gong, there was a record of "stars falling like rain". The Meteor in China, written by the French astronomer Pietro, is supposed to be the earliest meteor shower record in Lyra in the world. Ancient astrologers in China classified meteors into many categories, which was meaningless. There is an explanation in the chronicle of heaven. Generally speaking, meteors are regarded as messengers from heaven. Big meteors bring great missions, while small meteors bring small missions. Meteors falling from top to bottom are called flying stars, and larger meteors are called running stars. The sound made by a meteor represents the anger of an angel. At the same time, if the meteor runs fast, the disaster will come quickly; If you run slowly, disaster will come slowly. The meteor is big and blunt → the meteor with light → the meteor with light → the meteor that appears and disappears from time to time → the meteor with big front and small back → the meteor with small front and big back → the place where the star falls → the time it takes for the meteor to cross the sky → the meteor appears in the clear sky without wind and rain and disappears for a long time → in short, hundreds of small meteors fly in all directions. The omens they predicted were also different, but most of them were ominous. From the western astrological history, it is quite similar to the old saying of China. Usually, meteors and comets are regarded as signs of human disasters and belong to the research category of "secular astrology". However, many statements have lost their function today. There are three main reasons: first, the rise of psychological astrology, and second, the development of astronomy has solved many unknown astrology secrets, so astrology is not mysterious; Third, the prediction of disasters caused by meteors or comets often does not happen at that time, and there is a time gap. For example, the disaster predicted by meteor shower may not happen until one year, two years, three years or even five or seven years later. This statement is too general to be credible. Therefore, the astrological signs shown by meteors have been neglected so far, but there are still people who are keen on it.