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WORLD ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNION

CONGRESS 2024​

Paper

On the Construction of Guizhou Liupanshui Yi-ethnic Astronomical Observatory

presenters

    Gao Ang

    Nationality: China

    Residence: China

    Guizhou Minzhu University

    Presence:Face to Face/ On Site

Keywords:

Liupanshui Astronomical Observatory, the ethnic Yi people, new calendar

Abstract:

Through the research and decision of the China World Ethnic Culture Exchange Promotion Association, the Committee of Astronomical Mystery of the Chinese I Ching, the Joint Project Group of "Innovative Application of the I Ching Culture" of Zhejiang University and the Liupanshui City Yi Studies Association,the Yi-ethnic Astronomical Observatory will be constructed in the Wumeng Prairie in Liupanshui,so as to make the astronomical wisdom of the Yi ancestors stand at the height of history and space-time. establish a patriotic educational travel base an astronomical popularisation base with primary and secondary school students as the main science popularisation target and to lay a solid foundation of cosmology for the country's cultivation of a new generation of talents in cosmic astronomy, quantum science, and artificial intelligence.Designed an entertainment system based on the findings of more than a decade of research, "Finding Your Destiny Star".Make every visitor to the "Yi Astronomical Observatory" to find their own "destiny star", can bring considerable social and economic benefits to the local tourism. To establish the "Yi Astronomical Observatory"in order to compile a new astronomical calendar system in the context of the starry sky, for scientific interpretation of the essence of the I Ching's Natural Calendar,for the purpose of letting the traditional Chinese culture better serve mankind and enabling Yi culture to go out into the world.