Editing Orion (constellation) (section)

===China===
In [[China]], Orion was one of the [[Twenty-eight mansions|28 lunar mansions]] ''Sieu (Xiù)'' (宿). It is known as [[Three Stars (Chinese constellation)|''Shen'' (參)]], literally meaning "three", for the stars of Orion's Belt. (See [[Chinese constellations]])

The [[Chinese character]] 參 ([[pinyin]] shēn) originally meant the constellation Orion ({{zh|c=參宿|p=shēnxiù}}); its [[Shang dynasty]] version, over three millennia old, contains at the top a representation of the three stars of Orion's belt atop a man's head (the bottom portion representing the sound of the word was added later).<ref>漢語大字典 Hànyǔ Dàzìdiǎn (in Chinese), 1992 (p.163). 湖北辭書出版社和四川辭書出版社 Húbĕi Cishu Chūbǎnshè and Sìchuān Cishu Chūbǎnshè, re-published in traditional character form by 建宏出版社 Jiànhóng Publ. in Taipei, Taiwan; {{ISBN|957-813-478-9}}</ref>