In October of the sixth year of Yuanshuo, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty obtained a beast with long horns and five hooves when hunting. So the year number was changed to "Yuanshou". Another reason for taking this name is the large-scale counterattack of the Han Dynasty against the Huns. Inauguration means conquest.
Kirin is a spirit beast symbolizing benevolence and auspiciousness in ancient legends of China. Now it is shaped like a deer, a dragon's head, a unicorn, a lion's tail and a cow's hoof, covered with scales and flames.
Kirin was originally a winged animal based on deer, sometimes called Tianlu. In early China, there were dragons, phoenixes or Kirin, among which "phoenixes" were the most famous. As an auspicious animal, "Kirin", as opposed to "Phoenix", seems to appear only in the documents of the Warring States period. According to Er Ya and Shuo Wen, Qi, Lin, Feng and Huang Dou are hermaphrodites of the same animal. But we suspect that "Lin" was probably just a deer animal before it was deified. This animal was deified because of two famous events in history: (1) In the 14th year of Lu Aigong (48 BC1), it was said that Confucius actually wrote the Spring and Autumn Annals. (2) 65438 BC+022 BC, it is said that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty hunted "Bai Lin", so it was renamed as Qilin Pavilion. What is the "forest" that Confucius saw? Neither the Spring and Autumn Annals nor Zuo Zhuan mentioned it, while the Biography of Rams said it was a "beast not from China" or a "benevolent beast" with long horns. Why did Confucius cry when he saw such an animal? The reason is that he is a benevolent person himself. In his view, capturing this kind beast is a symbol of his failure. The "Bailin" obtained by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is said to be the "horn of five hooves", which was a symbol of the conquest of Xiongnu by the Han Dynasty at that time, especially related to his conquest of Xiongnu (Biography of Hanshu).
Since the Han dynasty, scholars have said that Kirin is a kind of god beast, with a tail, an oxtail, a wolf's forehead and a horseshoe shape. The male is called Qi without horns, the female is called Lin with horns, and there is meat at both ends of the horns. But because Kirin is simply called "Lin", it is more called "Jiao". Most of its unearthed images are images with meat in one corner, but there are also images of goats wearing sharp horns or a combination of two horns. After the Western Han Dynasty, "Lin" often joined the "four spirit patterns" represented by Qinglong, Suzaku, Baihu and Xuanwu, and further formed the "five spirit patterns" centered on the four directions. It can be seen that Lin is a work with a distinct theme. However, it is worth noting that the ancients sometimes confused Kirin with Taoba, Fu Ba, Fu Ba, Tianlu and exorcism. For example, Zhu Xizu once pointed out that the ancients often called Tianlu and exorcism in front of the tombs of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties "Kirin", called such tombs "Kirin's Tomb" and named the places where the stone carvings were made. It can be seen that they are all beasts with similar images and similar nature, but they are not the same kind of beasts.
Kirin, also known as "Kirin" or "Lin" for short, is commonly known as "four unlike". In ancient legends, the benevolent beast and the auspicious beast are legendary animals in ancient China, and they are also called "four spirits" with the phoenix, turtle and dragon. Known as the sacred beastmaster. It is the mountain of God.
Kirin, an animal, was created by mixing thoughts according to the way of thinking of China people. Judging from its external shape, it is characterized by moose body, oxtail, horseshoe shape (called "wolf's hoof" in history books), fish scale skin, horns with meat at the corners and yellow. This model is a new combination after dismembering many real animals. It concentrates all the advantages of these precious animals on Kirin, a fictional god beast, which fully embodies the concept of "Jimei" of China people.
"Kirin" takes "deer" as the radical. When the ancients coined the word, they clearly told people that Kirin evolved from deer, but it was by no means a deer, with more parts and equipment than deer. It is said that its body is like a raccoon, and it can also be written as an owl, which is called roe for short in ancient books; There is a cow's tail, a round head, but only one horn. Some say that Qi is a man and Lin is a woman, and their shapes are slightly different. But it is said that the beginning of Qijia is roughly like a deer. It was regarded as a god beast and a benevolent beast by the ancients. Its life span is very long, it can live for two thousand years. Can spit fire, sound like thunder. Caterpillar 360, unicorn long.