Huang Yi-nung, a history professor at National Tsing Hua University, has made a career of studying ancient Chinese astronomical records, and found that China was the only place in the world where accurate astronomical records were being kept around the birth of Christ.
針對此，清華大學歷史系教授黃一農做過一番天文考古。他翻查古代天文記載，發現紀元前後全世界只有中國精準紀錄了當時天象。