{{Short description|Chinese constellation}} 230px|thumb|right|Mǎo Xiù map The '''Hairy Head''' mansion (昴宿, pinyin: Mǎo Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the western mansions of the White Tiger.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Stephenson|first=F. Richard|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V2_B2/HOC_VOLUME2_Book2_chapter13.pdf|title=The History of Cartography|publisher=University of Chicago Press|year=1994|editor-last=Harley|editor-first=J.B.|series=Part 2|volume=2|pages=517|chapter=13 - Chinese and Korean Star Maps and Catalogs|editor-last2=Woodward|editor-first2=David}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Penprase|first=Bryan E.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQHNDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Extended+Net%22+chinese+astronomy&pg=PA43|title=The Power of Stars|date=2017-05-05|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-52597-6|pages=43|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Xu|first=Junjun|date=January 2009|title=Ancient Chinese constellations|journal=Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union|language=en|volume=5|issue=S260|pages=107–115|doi=10.1017/S174392131100319X|issn=1743-9221|doi-access=free}}</ref>
This mansion corresponds to the Pleiades in English.<ref>{{cite book | author-link=Richard Hinckley Allen | author=Allen, Richard Hinckley | year=1899 | title=Star-Names and Their Meanings | publisher=G.E. Stechert | location=New York | url=https://archive.org/details/starnamesandthe00allegoog/ | pages=[https://archive.org/details/starnamesandthe00allegoog/page/393/ 393] | oclc=707958818}}</ref>
==Asterisms== {| class="wikitable" ! English name !! Chinese name !! European constellation !! Number of stars !! Representing |- | Hairy Head || 昴 || Taurus/Pleiades || 7||The maned head |- | Celestial River || 天河 || Aries || 1||River in the sky |- | Moon || 月 || Taurus || 1||Moon spirit |- | Yin Force || 天陰 || Aries/Taurus || 5|| Overcast sky force, or the shadows of north mountain, or officials of the emperor which hunting together |- | Hay || 芻蒿 || Cetus || 6||Hay and cattle food |- | Celestial Meadows || 天苑 || Cetus/Eridanus || 16||Imperial family's ranch |- | Rolled Tongue || 卷舌 || Perseus || 6||Shape of the curled tongue |- | Celestial Slander || 天讒 || Perseus || 1|| Slanderous tongue |- | Whetstone || 礪石 || Andromeda/Perseus/Taurus || 4||Grindstone |}
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