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Volume 6 The late Western Han painted tomb in Yintun 尹屯, Luoyang 洛阳, was excavated in 2003. On the domed ceiling of the central tomb chamber is a celestial painting with star orbs (Figs. 1 and 2), human figures, animals, and buildings. It is an intuitive expression of the astronomical significance of various constellations (known as star officials) and their humanistic connotations; as such, it reflects cultural concepts that are ancient and distinctive. The apex of the domed ceiling of the central chamber is demarcated by red lines into an eastern and a western section with a depiction of the sun and moon in each section respectively. Inside the moon is the Toad, inside the sun must have been the Vermillion Bird; similar themes are found in many constellation maps in tombs. Below the apex of the dome, constellations are distributed throughout the four ceiling slopes mainly according to the ancient astronomical system of the Five Palaces. Red lines define four domains of east, south, west, north, and within each domain are further subdivisions demarcated by red lines. Each of the east and west slope is split into two smaller domains by red lines, the south slope subdivided into five smaller domains, the north into four. The designer of the constellation map used the north side of the east slope to symbolize the central domain of the celestial North Pole that corresponds to the Central Palace 中宫 in the ancient astronomical system. As a matter of fact, the position of the celestial North Pole would not have corresponded to the apex of the ceiling. In the Luoyang area, the corresponding position of the celestial North Pole is not the apex of the ceiling but it would be 35 degrees from the north horizon as seen by the naked eye. Other domains throughout the four slopes symbolize the four celestial palaces of the east, south, west and north and the presiding twentyeight lunar mansions. Each Palace varies in width, and A Study of the Constellation Map Mural from the Western Han Tomb at Yintun, Luoyang