1. Sunshine: The god beast in the myths and legends of ancient residents in China is a twin myth similar to Fuxi Nuwa and a product of the primitive religious nature of human society.
At the same time, it is probably the product of the transition from matriarchal clan to paternal clan, as some scholars have said. There are many similarities between them, but they are quite different in reality. Scholars should study it with cautious thinking.
2. Shadows of the Moon: the mythical beasts in the myths and legends of ancient residents in China. From the study of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Yin Ruins, we can see that there are actually two theories about the origin of the shadow of Taiyin. First, the shadow of Taiyin is a god beast produced by the combination of Yin and Pangu in the two devices after Pangu's creation.
3. Ying Long: the flying dragon in ancient myths and legends of China. According to legend, Ying Long killed Chiyou and Kuafu in the Yellow Emperor; During Yu's flood control, it turned into a river with a tail painted, allowing water to flow into the sea. In addition, Ying Long is also the ancestor of Kirin.
4. Huanglong: the god beast in ancient myths and legends. According to ancient records, both Huangdi and Dayu may be the embodiment of Huanglong.
5. Qinglong: the spirit beast in ancient myths and legends. Belonging to traditional culture, it is one of the four elephants. The four great beasts in ancient China were Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu.
According to the Five Elements Theory, the East is blue, so Qinglong is the God of the East, also known as the "black dragon". In folklore, Qinglong looks like a long snake, a unicorn head, a carp tail, a bearded face, deer-like horns and five claws, which is awesome.
6. White Tiger: In the traditional culture of China, it is one of the four major images of the seven stars in Taoism. According to the theory of five elements, it is a spirit beast representing the west. Because the west belongs to gold and the color is white, it is called white tiger, which means the season is autumn. ?
7. Suzaku: one of the four spirits, it is the floorboard of the seven nights in the south. Well, ghosts, willows, stars, Zhang, wings and birds are connected into a bird shape.
8. Xuanwu: a kind of spiritual thing composed of turtles and snakes. Xuanwu originally meant Xuanming, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Ming are interlinked. Xuan means black; Ghost means yin. At first, Xuan Ming described the tortoise divination as follows: the tortoise's back is black, and the tortoise divination is to let the tortoise go to the underworld to ask his ancestors, bring back the answers and show them to the world in the form of divination.
9. Viper: vanity is less true, cunning and treacherous are more worried and suspicious: insincerity, empty words and lies are more trustworthy, nothingness is hard to rely on, hypocrisy, fraud, vanity is less true, the Lord is not true, and his men are hypocritical and cunning, and their words don't count.
10, Gou Chen: "Yi Mao": "The image of Gou Chen, whose real name is Kirin, is in the center and its potential is in the future. Covering up man and beast is also a kind of rule of virtue ... snake general, attached to the post, swims in front, has the right to take care of his own day. Cover Vulcan and cooperate with Tudor. " "Rhyme Society" contains Gou Chen: In heaven, it is called flying scorpion, deer head and dragon body; This land is called Tianma.
The origin of ancient beasts.
Ancient beasts come from Shan Hai Jing and Huai Nan Zi.