1. Different meanings
1. Pixiu: Pixiu has rich meanings, and people believe it can bring joy and good luck.
2. Kirin: Kirin is a symbol of a certain idea, a manifestation of a certain artistic conception, a display of a certain power, and inspires people's imagination, guides people's spirit to conform to a certain idea, and enter a kind of A specific realm gives people hope, comfort and a certain power of pursuit, which is integrated into folk life and manifested in all aspects of national culture.
2. Different appearance characteristics
1. Pixiu: Pixiu has a body shape like a tiger and leopard, its head and tail are like a dragon, its color is both gold and jade, and it has a pair of wings on its shoulders. It cannot spread out, and the head has one horn and is tilted back.
2. Kirin: Judging from its external shape, it combines lion head, antlers, tiger eyes, elk body, dragon scales, and ox tail into one; its tail is hairy like a dragon's tail, with one horn carrying meat. But it is said that Qilin's body is like a musk deer, and it was regarded as a god by the ancients.
3. Different symbols
1. Pixiu: In ancient times, people often used Pixiu as the name of the army.
2. Kirin: In slave society and feudal society, dragons and phoenixes were captured by the supreme ruler, and lost their original totem comprehensive meaning, and became symbols of the emperor and concubines of the supreme ruler.