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 stars | Representing |
| Winnowing Basket | 箕 | Sagittarius | 4 | Azure Dragon's dung, the role of rice bran to farm implements, also means the wind |
| Chaff | 糠 | Ophiuchus | 1 | Lift out of bran |
| Pestle | 杵 | Ara | 3 | Trace compounds wooden club |
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