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Four Divine Beasts

There are many legends about dragons, and there are many theories about the origin of dragons, some say that they were introduced from India, and some say that they were turned into Chinese stars. India itself is said by the dragon god, but the status of the dragon in India is not high, and there is also a physical object - the python.

In the era when the Five Elements Doctrine was prevalent, stories about the Green Dragon slowly began to circulate; According to the five elements of yin and yang, the five elements match the south, east, west, and northwest with five colors, and each color is matched with a divine beast and a god; The east is cyan with a dragon, the west is white with a tiger, the south is vermilion with a bird, the north is black with a martial arts, and yellow is the central positive color.

Among the gods of the four directions, according to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, 'Southern Zhurong, the body of a beast and a human face, multiply two dragons.' ’； 'Harvest in the west, with a snake in the left ear, multiply two dragons. ’； 'There is a saying in the east, the body is a bird and a human face, and two dragons are multiplied. ’； 'Northern Yujiang, black body and siblings, riding two dragons. One of the more interesting points is that the dragons in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are all ridden, while the snakes of his kind are either held or manipulated or wrapped around the neck, showing the difference between the two; However, the five gods in the five directions are not quite the same as the four gods in the four directions, so I will not go into detail here. Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu (black turtle snake, Wu is the meaning of turtle and snake), green dragon, white tiger and respectively represent the twenty-eight houses of the four directions, the dragon is the seven houses of the east - horn, Kang, Di, Fang, heart, tail, Kei, and the shape of these seven Suku is very similar to the shape of a dragon, it can be seen from their literal meaning, the horn is the horn of the dragon, Kang is the neck, Di is the root, but the root of the neck, the fang is the shoulder, is the wedge, the heart is the heart, the tail is the tail, and the Kei is the end of the tail.

There is also the part of the dragon's heart, which some people call 'fire', which is related to the rain and rain, and because the green dragon is wood, it is also the year of Jupiter. After the rise of Taoism, these four spirits were also named by people, which is convenient for human beings to call, the green dragon is called 'Meng Zhang', the white tiger is called 'Jian Bing', the red bird is called 'Lingguang', and Xuanwu is 'Zhiming', and in many dynasties, there are also some monarchs who take Qinglong to do their own year name, such as Emperor Wei Ming of the Three Kingdoms is an example, and there are also records in the historical records that the Xia Dynasty is a dynasty belonging to Mude, so he has a record of the auspicious omen of 'Qinglong was born in the suburbs'.

In ancient China, the head with horns was a male dragon; The two-horned one is called a dragon, and the single-horned one is called a Jiao; The hornless one is the mantle, and in ancient times, the jade pendant often had large and small double dragons, and it was still called the mother and child mantle; The status of dragons is much higher than that of India. Because in China, the dragon is a sacred object, the supreme one, and a symbol of the emperor. It is also the representative of the East, the five elements are wood, and because the cyan is wood, there is a saying that the left green dragon and the right white tiger.

The stars are used in the twenty-eight constellations, the seven oriental constellations - horn, kang, di, fang, heart, tail, kei, the ancients imagined them as the image of the dragon, because they are located in the east, according to the five elements of yin and yang to the five sides of the color matching, the east color is green, so the name 'green dragon'.

And the folk have a dragon sex prostitution saying, and when you have sex with a cow, you have a unicorn, and when you have sex with a pig, you have an elephant.

The so-called dragon gives birth to nine sons, which is not like the dragon's statement, it is like this-

The eldest is called a prison cow: it loves music, so it often stands on the headstock. Such as the Huqin of the Han nationality, the three-stringed qin of the Bai nationality, etc. And the Mongolian horse-head qin may also be a variant of the captive cow.

The second son is Jairbi: he loves to kill, so he is often attached to his weapons to intimidate the enemy. At the same time, it is also used on the ceremonial guard to appear more majestic.

San'er is a mocking wind: it is a beast-shaped dragon, it looks a bit like a dog, it is good at looking, so Duo'an is on the corner of the temple. It is said to be able to deter demons and destroy calamities.

The fourth child is Pu Lao: if he likes to roar, people will put it on the clock, and most of them are the image of Pu Lao. It is said that it lives on the seashore, but it is very afraid of whales, and when a whale attacks, it will scream in fear. Therefore, people made the wooden pestle into the shape of a whale to make the bronze bell particularly loud. The fifth is a lion-like child. It is a foreign product, which was introduced to China with Buddhism, so the character is a bit like Buddha. It's quiet and loves fireworks. Therefore, it is often placed on the Buddha's seat or incense burner, so that it can protect the Dharma for the Buddha's door.

The sixth is Baxia: also known as the Gang Tuo, which looks like a turtle. Legend has it that in ancient times, it often carried the three mountains and five mountains to make waves. was later subdued by Xia Yu and made a lot of contributions to Xia Yu. After the water control became an attack, Xia Yu let it carry its exploits by itself. Therefore, most of the stone tablets in China are carried by it.

The seventh son is the Fierce Spirit: also known as the Charter, which looks like a tiger. Legend has it that it upholds justice and can distinguish right from wrong, so it is placed on the top and bottom of the prison door, the two gates and halls, and the top of the cards that officials quietly avoid when they go out on patrol, so as to maintain the solemnity of the court.

The eighth child is a negative man: because it loves literature, it has two rules in the stone tablet.

Mozi is a mantle: also known as the owl tail, a fish-shaped dragon. According to legend, it was introduced by Buddhism from India around the time of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. It is the thing under the seat of the rain god in the Buddhist scriptures, which can extinguish fires. Therefore, the kiss is changed from this, so it is more than at both ends of the roof ridge to eliminate disasters and extinguish fires.

Among the four sacred beasts in China, another one that is often compared to the dragon is the 'white tiger'; the tiger, the chief of all beasts, its majesty and the legendary ability to subdue ghosts, make it also become a yang beast, often follow the dragon to go out, 'cloud from the dragon, wind from the tiger' has become the best pair of ghosts to subdue.

And the white tiger is also the god of war and killing. The white tiger has a variety of divine powers, such as avoiding evil, fighting disasters, praying for abundance and punishing evil, promoting goodness, getting rich, and tying the knot. And it is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also made of the stars. Among the 28 constellations, there are seven Western Nakshatras: Kui, Lou, Stomach, Ang, Bi, Mi, and Shen. Therefore, it is the representative of the West, and its whiteness is because it is the West, and the West is gold in the five elements, and the color is white. Therefore, it is called the White Tiger not because it is white, but from the five elements.

In addition to the four spirits in Taoism, including the green dragon and white tiger, even when the feng shui master explored the cemetery, the terrain that protruded on the left and right sides of the terrain in front of the terrain and could be used as a tomb has a unique title, called the left green dragon and the right white tiger, taking the meaning of its protection, and there is also the same decoration in the public hall, and the green dragon and hundred tigers are painted on the left and right hall pillars to suppress evil spirits. After the rise of Taoism, Dragon and Tiger was borrowed as the term of Taoist alchemy, which refers to the consent words of "lead and mercury, Kanli, water and fire, yin and yang", etc. The Taoist alchemy is divided into internal and external (inner Dan refining qi, outer Dan alchemy medicine, the author is not very sure), the inner Dan is in terms of the five elements of yin and yang, dragon yang, born in the separation, leaving the fire, so the cloud 'dragon comes out of the fire', the tiger yin, born in the kan, the kan belongs to the water, so the cloud 'tiger is born to the water', after the combination of the two, a yin and a yang, reconciled with each other, called the Tao Ben, are the representatives of the Yuan Shen and the Yuan Jing. Another theory is that sex belongs to wood, wood represents the East, and the hexagram is shock, so it is compared to the green dragon; Love belongs to gold, gold represents the West, Yu hexagram is exchanged, gold is white, so it is called the white tiger. Gold can overcome wood, so the feelings are destructive, and with the true essence of the twenty-eight, so that it is combined into one, then the gold and wood are inseparable, the dragon and tiger are self-professed into the Dan, in the human body, the liver is the dragon, the kidney is the tiger, and the outer Dan is still taken Yin and Yang, with the dragon as the lead, and the tiger as the mercury. (To be continued.) )