Candle dragon-Documentary Records
Shan Hai Jing Huang Da Jing: "Beyond the Northwest Sea, to the north of Chishui, there is Zhang Wei. There is a god, the snake's face is red, and his straight eyes are riding a horse, gloomy and bright. No food, no sleep, no rain. It is a nine-yin candle, which means Candle dragon. " Overseas classic: "The God of Zhongshan, named Yin Candle, regards it as day, sleeps as night, blows it as winter, calls it summer, doesn't drink or eat, and rests it as wind;" It is a thousand miles long. It is on the east side of the cave. It is a thing, a human face, a snake's body and a red color. It lives at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain. " See Gong's Outline of Primitive Worship.
Chu Ci Tian Wen: "Why is the northwest open?" What will Candle dragon do if the weather is bad? Another "big move": "There is a cold mountain in the north, and the dragon is forgiven. "
Candle dragon is in the north of Yanmen, covered by the mountains of Wei Yu, and there is no sun. The man of God has a dragon face and no feet. ("Huainanzi Terrain Training")
There is no news of yin and yang before the day reaches the northwest, so there is a fire dragon shining in Tianmen. (Guo Pu notes "The Great Northern Wilderness Classic" and Candle dragon quotes "Poems with Fog" (1))
"Wan Xing Jing" says: The sun follows the four directions. The ancient sage said: Candle dragon traveled eastward and the whole army was wiped out; When traveling westward, when traveling southward, he was big; He was badly killed when he traveled north. ("Yi Gan Wei Kun Chisel Volume")
"Overseas Classics": "The God of Zhongshan, named Yin Candle, regards it as day, sleeps as night, blows it as winter, calls it summer, does not drink or eat, does not stop, and breathes it as wind; It is a thousand miles long. It is on the east side of the cave. It is a thing, a human face, a snake's body and a red color. It lives at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain. "
All theories are similar, and obviously come from overseas classics and wild classics.
Candle dragon is a snake-faced monster with red skin and lives in extremely cold places in the north. It has great power. As long as you open your eyes, night becomes day. As soon as its eyes are closed, the day turns back to night. When it blows, it is covered with dark clouds and heavy snow, and it becomes winter; Breathing, the sun immediately becomes hot, and the flowing gold and stones become summer. It always crouches there, not eating or drinking, not sleeping or breathing-because once it breathes, it becomes Changfeng Wan Li. Its divine power can shine under the grave. It is said that it often contains a candle that shines in the gloomy Tianmen in the north, so people call it "Yin Candle" and also write "talon dragon".
Candle dragon-Longxing in Autumn
The records of,, and Xiang Liu in Shan Hai Jing unofficial history and Overseas Jing are not the myth of wonderful travel, but the true portrayal of the dragon star system in the original calendar. Solanum nigrum, Solanum nigrum, Solanum nigrum and Liuxiang are Longxing in spring, summer, autumn and winter respectively, and they are all characters in Wild Classics. This record provides powerful clues to prove the relationship between Shan Hai Jing and ancient astronomy and the historical value of the books, and also provides strong evidence to understand the relationship between dragon worship and its myth and Long Xing discipline system.
Candle dragon prototype
Candle dragon, the myth of the northern dragon totem, is a magical record in ancient books: Candle dragon is a snake with a human face, which is thousands of miles long. It is an extraordinary miracle that when you open your eyes, it is day, when you close your eyes, it is night, when you blow, it is summer, and when you exhale, it is raining. Therefore, it has attracted the attention of scholars very early.
Records about Candle dragon were first found in Shan Hai Jing.
Throughout the interpretation of Candle dragon, there are roughly the following figures about the prototype of Candle dragon:
First, Candle dragon said the sun. This theory is the oldest, and the earliest reference is Yi Kun Chisel invented by Yu in Qing Dynasty. 6? Article 1 Candle dragon quoted the ancient book Candle dragon and thought that "Candle dragon is the name of today." And said that Candle dragon's theory comes from Gaitian's cosmology.
Secondly, Candle dragon said "light the candle". Jiang Liangfu's "Chu Ci Tong Gu"? 6? The materials in 1 are all copied from, but his theory is quite different. He thinks that the sound of Candle dragon means Zhu Rong, and The Legend of Candle dragon means the legendary teacher of Zhu Rong. He also said: "The ancients used plants and trees as candles, cultivated them for a long time, and used light as heat to thank the sun, and they were shaped like dragons. Dragon, an ancient god, is called God and Candle dragon. "Jiang Liangfu, 2002: 193.
Third, Candle dragon is a pioneer. Yuan Ke equated Candle dragon with the epoch-making Pangu, saying: "The speaker said that this god was the original pioneer god immediately, which was obtained from different records in Ren Fang's notes:' The ancients said: Pangu cried for the river, cried for the wind, sounded for the thunder, and looked for electricity. The ancients said: Pangu's joy is sunny, and anger is cloudy. "The Chronicle of the Five Games is quoted in Volume 9 of Guangbo Biography:' The king of Pangu, the dragon with the head of a snake, hisses as wind and rain, blows as lightning, and closes his eyes in the day and closes them at night.' Believe it. The legend of Pangu Beggars' Sect later opened up. "(Yuan Ke, 1993: 278).
The counter-argument is as follows:
First, Candle dragon "regards day as night". (Overseas North Classic), similar to Japan, but Tian Wen said: "Japan is uneasy, how about Candle dragon?" Huainanzi? 6? 1 Terrain training said: "Candle dragon is in the north of Yanmen, covered by the mountain of Yu Wei, and the sun can't be seen." "Poem with Fog" says: "The sky is not as good as the northwest, and there is no news of Yin and Yang, so there is a dragon with fire spirit shining in Tianmen." It is said that Candle dragon is in a dark area outside the sun, so there is no sunshine in Candle dragon, so the "sun theory" cannot be established.
Second, Candle dragon and Zhu Rong have similar phonology, but the story of Zhu Rong in ancient books has nothing to do with the story of Candle dragon in the above quotation. However, it is natural to take Candle dragon's name as a candle. What's the difference between a Candle dragon and a plant candle? Therefore, Jiang's "fire candle theory" cannot be copied.
Third, in order to enlighten the mind, Pangu quoted the cloud of "Selected Works" Volume I "Calendar 35": "The world is like a chicken, and Pangu was born in it. Eight thousand years old, creation, for the sky, cloudy and turbid for the earth. Pangu was born in it and changed nine times a day. God is in heaven and sacred to the earth. The sky is ten feet high, the earth is ten feet thick and Pangu is ten feet long. So 8,000 years old, there are many days, the land is extremely deep, and Pangu is extremely long. " It is said that the chaos of heaven and earth was developed by Pangu.
The book Deductive History by Qing Horse Raccoon quotes a cloud in the Chronicle of the Five Games: "The vitality is great, the bud begins, and then the heaven and the earth are divided, and the yin and yang are flourishing, and the vitality is growing. It is pregnant, neutral and human. Pangu, the first born, is dying and incarnating as a human being. His voice is thunder, his left eye is the sun, his right eye is the moon, his limbs are five bodies, four poles and five mountains, his blood is rivers, his tendons are geography, his muscles are fields, his hair is stars, his fur is vegetation, his teeth are stones, his essence is jade, his sweat is rain, and the insects on his body are turned into Li by the wind. It is said that after Pangu's death, everything in the world was transformed into a body. Ren Fang's "Records of Foreign Objects" said: "The death of Pangu in the past was also the first of the four mountains. The purpose was the sun and the moon, the fat was the river and the sea, and the hair was the vegetation. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was said that Pangu's head was Dongyue, its belly was Zhongyue, its left arm was Nanyue, and its right arm was Beiyue, which was enough for Xiyue. The ancients said: Pangu tears are rivers, qi is wind, sound is thunder, and eyes are electricity. The ancients said: Pangu's joy is sunny, and anger is cloudy. Wu Chu said: Pangu couples are also the beginning of Yin and Yang. There is an ancient tomb in the South China Sea today, which is 300 miles long. As the saying goes, Pangu's soul was buried by later generations. There is Pangu Temple in Guilin, which is what people want today. "
The author of the May 3rd Calendar and the year of the May 5th Calendar, Xú Zhēng came from the Three Kingdoms and Ren Fang came from the Liang Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. 6? 1 Tian Wen ","Huainanzi? 6? When talking about creation, such as 1 former Tao Xun, Pangu was not mentioned, which shows that the myth of Pangu's creation appeared late. According to Xú Zhēng, he quoted "Wu Chu's Theory" and said that "there is an ancient tomb in the South China Sea" and "there is a Pangu Temple in Guilin", which shows that Pangu myth was introduced by southern nationalities in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Pangu's main story is to create the world and create everything. However, all the books describe Candle dragon, but they have nothing to do with opening up and creating the world. The so-called "treat it as day, treat it as night, blow it as winter, call it as summer and breathe it as wind" in overseas classics has nothing to do with creating the world. The so-called "King of Pangu" quoted in Volume 9 of Guangbo Biography obviously means that Pangu and Candle dragon are mixed together, and Yuan Shikai's "Candle dragon is the pioneer of God" is wrong for this reason.
Candle dragon's Different Views: According to The Sun, there have been different interpretations of Candle dragon in past dynasties. In "Tian Wen of Chu Ci", there is a saying, "How can it be opened in the northwest?" What will Candle dragon do if the weather is bad? In other words, Yi Gan Wei Kun Chishui also said: "The sun is in harmony with all directions." . The ancient sage said, "Candle dragon will be destroyed if he travels eastward;" When traveling westward, it is big when traveling southward and fierce when traveling northward. " Therefore, Ren Yu thinks that "it is the name of heaven" in his "Gui Si Cun Draft". Zhu Rong said that Jiang Liangfu, a professor at Hangzhou University in China in modern times, thought that Candle dragon and Zhu Rong were closely related, saying: "The ancients used plants and trees as candles, cultivated them for a long time, and used light as heat to thank the sun, and they were shaped like dragons. Dragon, an ancient god, is called God and Candle dragon. " Aurora theory was pointed out by Zhao Feng in Candle dragon from ancient times to modern times: the strange fate of a thousand generations, published on page 36 of the Chinese edition of The Scientist in May, 2009. Because the magnetic North Pole was located in northern Asia in ancient times, the ancients could see the above-mentioned "God of Zhongshan, named Yin Candle, regarded it as day, turned it into night, blew it as winter, called it summer, never stopped, and called it wind. It's a thousand miles long ... it's a thing, and the snake's face is red and it lives at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain. " Aurora conforming to the image of Candle dragon.