Dragon is a miraculous animal in China mythology, fickle, sexually stimulating and beneficial to all things. It is said that it can be hidden and displayed, reaching the sky in the spring breeze and diving in the autumn wind. It can also cause clouds and rain. It was the leader of many scales, the head of the four spirits (dragon, phoenix, unicorn and turtle), and later became a symbol of imperial power. Emperors all claimed to be dragons, and their vessels were decorated with dragons. According to Shan Hai Jing, Xia Houqi, Ru Shou and Ju Mang all "rode the rain dragon". There are other secretaries, "zhuān xū is everywhere in Lapras" and "Di Ku Lapras in spring and summer". The predecessors divided dragons into four types: the scaly ones are called dragons; The winged one is called Ying Long; Those with horns are called dragons, and those without horns are called autumn. For thousands of years, dragons have penetrated into all aspects of China society and become a kind of cultural cohesion and accumulation. Dragon has become a symbol of China, the Chinese nation and China culture. For every Chinese descendant, the image of the dragon is a symbol, a mood, and a feeling of flesh and blood! . The names "Descendants of the Dragon" and "Descendants of the Dragon" often make us excited, energetic and proud. Besides spreading and inheriting in China, Dragon Culture has also been brought to all parts of the world by overseas Chinese. In China residential areas or in China, dragons are still the most eye-catching decorations. Therefore, "Descendants of the Dragon" and "Dragon Country" have also been recognized by the world. Dragon is the representative of the Chinese nation!
China Phoenix, also known as Zhu Bird, Dan Bird, Firebird, etc. Also known as flamingos and immortal birds in western mythology. Its image is generally a flamingo, with a long tail and a whole body on fire. It is estimated that human beings have carried out mythical processing and evolution on flamingos. According to the myth, every time a phoenix dies, it will light a fire all over its body, and then it will be reborn in the fire, gaining more vitality than before, which is called "phoenix nirvana". In this way, the phoenix has won eternal life, so it is called the "immortal bird". Like Kirin, the phoenix is a general term for male and female, and it is always called the phoenix. Phoenix Qi Fei is a symbol of good luck and harmony. The image of a dragon is becoming more and more complex, with red head, buttocks, snake neck, fish tail, tattoo, turtle body, swallow chin and chicken mouth. Phoenix has been an important part of China culture since ancient times.
Kirin, also known as "Kirin" or "Lin" for short, is an animal in the ancient legend of China, which is also called "four spirits" with 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 an ox 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.
The four most terrifying and powerful beasts in ancient China were Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu. Qinglong is the God of the East; White tiger is the god of the west; Suzaku is the god of the south; Xuanwu is the god of the north, and the tortoise and snake are one. So there are "Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, Xuanwu, Tiansiling, Tongfang and Wangzhi temples." .
The ancient ancients divided the sky into four palaces, east, west, north and south, named after Qinglong (black dragon), white tiger, Suzaku and Xuanwu (a turtle-shaped god). In fact, the sky is divided into four parts, which are connected by seven main stars in each part and named after their shapes.
The horn, horn, room, heart, tail and dustpan of the East Palace are shaped like dragons, so it is called Qinglong or Black Dragon.
The seven western stars, Kui, Lou, Stomach, Ang, Bi, Horn and Shen, are shaped like tigers, calling the West Palace the White Tiger.
The well, ghost, willow, star, Zhang, wing and net in the south are bird-shaped, called suzaku;
The northern seven-star bucket, cow, female, empty, dangerous, houses and walls are shaped like turtles and called Xuanwu.
As a result, Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu have become the four gods who guard the heavenly officials, create evil and regulate Yin and Yang. Among the four gods, Qinglong and Baihu are mainly regarded as spirits to ward off evil spirits, and their images mostly appear in palaces, temples, gates or tombs and their artifacts. On the last occasion, the dragon is not helping the tomb owner ascend to heaven, but deterring evil spirits and defending the soul peace of the tomb owner.
There are dragons and white tigers in all directions, Suzaku Xuanwu is in harmony with Yin and Yang, and the four spirits, black dragon and white tiger, Suzaku Xuanwu Heaven, rarely appear in European and American fantasy, but in Chinese and Japanese myths and legends, they appear as incomparable Four Holy Beasts.
There are many legends about dragons, and there are also many stories about the origin of dragons. Some said it was imported from India, while others said it was transformed from China. India itself is said by the dragon god, but the status of dragons in India is not high, and there is a real thing-python.
In the era when the Five Elements Theory prevailed, the story about Qinglong began to spread slowly. According to the Yin-Yang and Five Elements, the Five Elements assigned five colors to the Southeast and Northwest Middle Schools, and each color was equipped with a beast and a god. East is cyan, with dragons, west is white, with tigers, south is scarlet, north is black, with martial arts, and yellow is the central positive color.
Qinglong, also known as "Black Dragon", is the God of the East in ancient mythology. Dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation. Since the Yellow Emperor entrusted it to Tianhe and weiser, it has been a symbol of the Chinese nation and even the whole of China, and its stereotype was in the Han Dynasty. Since the Great Han Dynasty, it has been identified as the symbol and representative of the emperor. In oriental legend, the dragon looks like a long snake, the head of a unicorn, the tail of a carp, a long beard, horns like deer and five claws, which is frightening. In western mythology, the dragon is more like a lizard with wings.
Among the four gods, according to Shan Hai Jing, "Southern Zhurong is a beast with human face and rides two dragons. 」; "In the west of Ru Shou, there is a snake's left ear, riding two dragons. 」; "In the East, there is Ju Mang, a bird and a face, riding two dragons. 」; "North yujiang county, black hands and feet, was two dragons. Interestingly, the dragons in Shan Hai Jing are all riding, while the snakes of the same kind with him are all being led or held or held or wrapped around their necks, which shows the difference between them. However, the five gods are different from the four gods, so I won't elaborate here. Suzaku, Xuanwu (black tortoise snake, martial arts means tortoise snake), Qinglong and Baihu represent the twenty-eight lodges in four directions respectively. The dragon is the seven lodges in the East-horn, clang, car, room, heart, tail and dustpan. These seven lodges are all dragon-shaped. As can be seen from their meanings, horns are the horns of dragons, and clanging is dragons. & lt& lt Zhouyi >> The dry divination in the book includes "Six Dragons", that is, Kang Long has regrets, the flying dragon is in the sky, and it is not suitable to use the hidden dragon, or the deep is in the continent, and the dragon is in the field, and the dragons are leaderless. "Six Dragons" can be explained as follows: When the black dragon star is close to the sun, people can't see it, and it is covered by the light of the sun. We call it a hidden dragon. After that, the Dragon Horn and the everyday star appeared on the horizon at the same time, which was called Tian Jianlong, and then all the black dragon stars appeared, that is, "or deep in the mainland." When the stars in "Black Dragon" rose to the highest point and crossed the southern sky, people saw "flying dragons in the sky". After that, the dragon body began. And "leaderless" cannot be explained as the last link of this astronomical cycle. If you put the dustpan outside, the dragon without the dustpan will roll in, but in ancient Chinese, the words "qun" and "Juan" are just function words, which means that the last sentence means that the black dragon falls from the sky and its head hangs below the horizon, so the word "dragon" itself is an ancient astrolabe.
Spirit beast-Qinglong
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Qinglong 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 its orientation is east to left, representing spring. The orientation of the white tiger is west to right, representing autumn; Suzaku's orientation is south and front, representing summer; The orientation of Xuanwu is north and back, representing winter.
Among the 28 constellations in China, Qinglong is the general name of the seven eastern stars (horn, sound, phase, room, heart, tail and dustpan).
Oriental Su Qi
Also known as the Black Dragon, the Black Dragon's seven eastern nights-horn, bell, mutuality, room, heart, tail and dustpan, are all dragon-shaped. From their meanings, we can see that the horn is the dragon's horn, the bell is the neck, the bian is the root of the neck, the room is the arm, the threat and the heart are the heart.
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There is still a part of the dragon's heart, which some people call' fire', which is related to sunny and rainy days, and because Qinglong is a wood, it is also the age of Jupiter. In many dynasties, some monarchs took Qinglong as their national title. For example, Wei Mingdi in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is an example. It is also recorded in the history books that the Xia Dynasty belonged to the Mude Dynasty, so there is a good omen that' Qinglong was born in the suburbs'.
The story of Qinglong
In the era when the Five Elements Theory prevailed, the story about Qinglong began to spread slowly. According to the Yin-Yang and Five Elements, the Five Elements assigned five colors to the Southeast and Northwest Middle Schools, each with a beast and a god. Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu, Tiansi Spirit, taking the square as the square, the king ordered the palace pavilion to take the method. "。 " Bao Puzi Miscellaneous English quoted the Immortal Classic to describe the image of the old gentleman in Taishang, saying that there were twelve green dragons on the left, twenty-six white tigers on the right, twenty-four suzaku in front and seventy-two Xuanwu in the back. Very imposing, really imposing. Later, the four elephants were gradually personified and had their titles. According to the Secret of the Seven Yuan Purple Extension in the Arctic, the name of Qinglong is Meng Zhang Shen Jun, the name of White Tiger is Shen Jun, the name of Suzaku is Ling Shen Guang Jun, and the name of Xuanwu is Meiji Shen Jun. Soon, the belief in Xuanwu (Zhenwu) gradually expanded, and it stood out from the four elephants and became the "Great Emperor". Qinglong and Baihu are included in the list of door gods, specifically guarding the Taoist temple gate. Fan Zhineng's "Yueyang Geography" in the Song Dynasty said: "There are two gods in Laozi Temple, one is called Qinglong and the other is called Baihu." Shu Guan, a private record of Changshu, said: "There are two great gods at the entrance of the Taoist temple, the dragon god on the left and the white tiger god on the right.
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The forty-four volumes of Taizhi call Qinglong Dongdou as follows: "Jiao Su Tianmen, Kang Su Ting, Chang Su Tianfu, Su Fang Tian Yi Xing Jun, Xin Su Uranus Jun, Wei Su Tian Ji Xing Jun, Ji Su Tian Lu Xing Jun." As for its image, there are seven clouds in The Collection of Doors and Tongjiao: "Oriental Dragon Horn, full of air, spits clouds and glows, thunders, flies to octupole, walks around four ghosts and stands on my left. In addition, Taoism also uses it in alchemy. For example, Volume 72 of "Seven Chapters of Clouds" quotes the Dan of the four ancient gods, saying: The dragon is a dragon, and the oriental wood is also mercury. It is clear and unwilling, not turbid, not desirable, far away, and infinitely hidden, so it is called dragon.