Suzaku ancient record

Qinglong, also known as Black Dragon, is one of the four elephants in China traditional culture. According to the theory of five elements, it is a spirit beast representing the East, a blue dragon, and the five elements belong to wood, representing the spring season and gestating everything.

It is recorded in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty that the sky is in the sky, one is cold and the other is hot, and it is ready at four o'clock. Everything changes, but it is moved, and the green dragon moves to Chen, which is called the age.

Among the twenty-eight lodging houses in China, Qinglong is the general name of seven lodging houses in the East (horn, sound, fork, room, heart, tail and dustpan).

In Taoist belief, he is called the God of Alina Zhang, the Dragon, and together with the God of White Tiger, he guards the Taoist gate.

Suzaku is one of the four images in traditional culture, and one of the so-called "four spirits" in Saint Fu Huang's picture is also called Suzaku. Suzaku is a god bird in the south, which is the main fire in the five elements. Since the Shang Dynasty, it has been a beast representing Emperor Yan and the seven nights in the south. In the burial culture and belief in the pre-Qin period, it was believed that it could lead the souls of the dead to heaven. After the rise of the five elements theory, its symbolic significance increased with Ding Bing and summer. It is also obvious in China's Notes on Ancient Poems that "Wenchang is the main star of Qiu, that is, Zhong Kui wears six stars, and invivo counts the human body, the god of rosefinch and the record of longevity". 【 And Qinglong, Baihu and Xuanwu are also called the Four Spirits of Heaven, and Huanglong, Qinglong, Baihu and Xuanwu are collectively called the Five Beasts of Tiangong (Huanglong was once Ying Long). Qi's Pan-Asian Theory advocated that the ancient Yue state took Suzaku as the totem, and scholar Chen thought Suzaku was the totem of the southern Miao nationality. Many people think it is a phoenix or a kind of phoenix, but in fact, Suzaku, as one of the four spirits in heaven and one of the four stars, is very different from Phoenix, one of the four spirits in the Book of Rites.