"Given the influence of the thinking that 'man and the heavens each reflect the other,' Chinese astronomical observation could never escape superstition," explains Hwang Yi-nung, associate professor of History at Tsing Hwa University. When official astronomers witnessed an unusual celestial event, they would attach some forced political meaning to it, and rarely explored for the objective truth.
「在所謂『天人感應』思想影響之下，中國的天文觀測始終擺脫不了迷信以及占星色彩」，清大歷史所副教授黃一農解釋，我國的天文官觀測到異象，往往附會政治或解釋人事，而少探究客觀的真理。