Gluttony is a mysterious monster in ancient myths and legends of China, named Lin Jie. The ancient book Shan Hai Jing Bei Ji Er Jing introduces its characteristics as follows: it looks like a sheep's face, its eyes are under its arm and its hands have tiger teeth.
Its name can be likened to a greedy person and is generally called a "gourmet". Zuo Zhuan records that gluttony is the son of Jinyun, not one of the nine sons of the dragon.
What people call gluttonous patterns are common patterns on bronzes and are considered to depict gluttonous animal faces. This pattern appears on the jade articles of Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but the gluttonous pattern is more common on bronzes, especially Ding Shang, as early as Erlitou Xia culture bronzes.
Gourmet has related images in online games, online novels and film and television works with China's legend or fantasy martial arts as the theme.
The images of gluttony are different, some are like wolves, some have only one head, and some have pig heads and bears.
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Gluttony is a legendary evil animal that is extremely greedy, so greedy that it eats up all its body, so its appearance is generally headless. "An Introduction to Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" said: "Greedy, having a body, eating without swallowing its body, but also rewarding it with words." In ancient China mythology, gluttony was one of the four evils. Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor attacked Chiyou, who was beheaded, and became overeating on his first landing. There is a cloud in Shan Hai Jing Bei Shan Jing: "There is more jade on the mountain and more copper on the mountain in Wu Gou. There is a beast that looks like a sheep's face, has eyes under his arm, teeth are claws, and sounds like a baby. It is called cannibalism. "