"It's so pretty!" Luosang looked at Chang Haojie and smiled softly, his hand grabbed Chang Haojie's hand for a long time.

Chang Haojie felt the temperature in Luosang's hand, and a strange feeling rose in her heart, she not only felt that her hands were warm, but her heart was also warm, this feeling of being cared for was not like a father's love for his daughter, but a kind of fiery, instantly hit the center of the room.

Chang Haojie felt very wonderful, and her mood became more comfortable, and some of her previous thoughts about gains and losses also disappeared.

Luosang let go of Chang Haojie's hand and smiled at her: "What are you looking at me for?"

Chang Haojie reacted, only to realize that she had been staring at Lausanne for a long time, and she was suddenly startled in her heart, and quickly stood upright.

"That, I, Master is looking for me, I'll go first!" Chang Haojie, who was in a panic, found a lame reason, and then fled.

"That's right! I heard Master say today that the people of the sect have found clues to the two saints of the two yi and the four spirits of heaven in Vermilion Bird Prefecture, and the super sect Dabi has been postponed, and the ten major battle kings will follow tomorrow to find clues, and the master will also take me with him. ”

After hesitating for a while, Chang Haojie continued: "King Wu and King Jing are also going!"

After finishing speaking, Chang Haojie ran out of the courtyard.

"King Jing!" Lausanne thought about the name, and an incomprehensible meaning appeared in his eyes.

Looking at the garden that had become quiet, Lausanne lay down under the peach tree again.

"Two rituals and two saints, the four spirits of the sky!" Lausanne read them in his mouth, calling up their information from his mind.

"The mythical beasts in ancient Chinese folk myths and legends refer to the creatures represented by the two rituals and two saints (the sun and candles, the shadow of the sun) and the four spirits of the sky (the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the xuanwu), all of which can be seen in the Chinese classics. Most of these creatures cannot be found in reality, but the composition of their images is derived from reality. Some ancient mythical beasts are used in Chinese divination, especially the two techniques of Qimen Dunjia and Liuyao. These mythical beasts often appear in traditional buildings, playing the role of dispelling evil spirits, avoiding disasters, and praying for blessings.

Two rituals and two saints

The sun candle and the Taiyin shadow are no longer seen in the modern living mythology, people know little about it, and the few active days of the sun candle are only some ancient books and some bronzes in the sporadic records, as for the records of the Taiyin shadow are even rarer, only a very small number of unearthed bronzes have some inscriptions, which can be called a big pity for the mythological community.

The sun shines on the candles

In ancient mythology, the Absolute Yang Qi in the Liangyi and the essence of the sun were transformed into holy beasts, and it was the most powerful and noble holy beast in the heavens of the universe, and was once called the Holy Spirit.

The appearance of the candle is a huge black sphere, and some people believe that the candle creates all things. As we all know, the candle is the sun, and the sun candle shines, and the Taiyin and the shadow together incarnate the four elephant holy beasts.

In the field of Chinese mythology, some scholars believe that the sun candle shines on the folk mythological variant of the legend of the candle dragon through the mountains and seas. But this claim has not been widely accepted and even repeatedly refuted.

Some scholars believe that the black sphere image of the candle is the evidence of the observation of sunspots in ancient China, and believe that the candlelight is the mythical impression of sunspots by the ancestors.

More people believe that the origin of the sun candlelight is the early sun worship of ancient Chinese ancestors combined with the nature worship after the ancient creation myth.

It's too gloomy

Taiyin Youying is a sacred beast in ancient Chinese mythology, which is transformed by the innate to yin qi in the two rituals and the essence of Taiyin, and is the holy beast second only to the sun candle in the heavens of the universe. Unlike the sun candlelight, although the shadow of the sun was also called the Holy Spirit, more accounts refer to it as the Holy Spirit.

The appearance of the shadow looks like a white hollow ring, and the shadow represents the most beautiful star in the night sky, the watchman of the human night - the moon. Together with the sun candlelight, the four elephant sacred beasts are incarnated.

In the field of Chinese mythology, some scholars believe that Taiyin Youying is actually a folk variant of Chang'e mythology. However, this statement has not been widely recognized, and has even been repeatedly refuted, which can be said to be quite similar to what happened to the sun.

Some scholars believe that the image of the white ring is evidence of the observation of the lunar crater in ancient China, and that the shadow is the mythical impression of the ancestors of the moon ring.

More scholars believe that the origin of Taiyin Youying is the worship of the moon in the early days of ancient Chinese ancestors, combined with the nature worship after the ancient creation myth.

According to some people's research, the aura image of the shadow may also come from the ancestors' worship of the total solar eclipse caused by the moon.

The Four Spirits of Heaven

Green Dragon

Ancient Divine Beasts

In China, the dragon is a sacred object and a symbol of the emperor, while the green dragon is the representative of the East, and the five elements are wooden, and because the cyan color is woody, there is a saying that the green dragon on the left and the white tiger on the right. The dragon is a sacred animal worshiped by the Han people, a symbol of auspiciousness and majesty, and due to the sense of worship, it has evolved into a traditional folk activity of praying for a good harvest and praying for peace.

Among the twenty-eight constellations, the seven Nakshatras in the East - Horn, Kang, Di, Fang, Heart, Tail, and 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 blue, so the name is green dragon. There is also a saying that the dragon is sexually sexual, and the unicorn is born when he has sex with the cow, but in fact, as early as in "Huainanzi", it has been stated that the unicorn is the grandson of the dragon.

White tiger

In ancient Chinese mythology, the White Tiger is the Western god of protection, war, and killing. The tiger has a variety of divine powers such as warding off evil spirits, fighting disasters, praying for abundance, punishing evil and promoting goodness, getting rich and getting rich, and tying the knot.

Ancient Divine Beast - White Tiger

In traditional Chinese culture, it is one of the seven Western stars and four images of Taoism, which is composed of the seven Western Nakshatras of the 28 constellations: Kui, Lou, Stomach, Pleiades, Bi, Mi, and Shensuo. According to the Five Elements Theory, it is a spirit animal representing the West, and it is called the White Tiger because the West is golden and white.

According to the ancient Chinese tradition, autumn is the season of slaughter, and most of the executions of prisoners are arranged in autumn, which is often referred to as the beheading after autumn.

Therefore, the White Tiger is the main killer and is considered to be the god of killing, so there are many fierce generals who are said to be the reincarnation of the White Tiger Xingchong, such as: Tang Dynasty general Luo Cheng, Xue Rengui and his son, etc. Many places and things related to military affairs are named after the white tiger, such as: the tiger charm that symbolizes the command of the army, the white tiger flag that symbolizes the might, and the white tiger festival hall where Lin Chong mistakenly entered the military aircraft in the Water Margin.

Suzaku

Suzaku is one of the four spirits, one of the four elephants in traditional culture, and one of the so-called "four spirits of the sky" in the "Sanfu Huangtu".

From the beginning of the Yin Shang era, it is the sacred beast that represents the Yan Emperor and the seven houses in the south, well, ghost, willow, star, zhang, wing, and zhen, which are connected to the bird-shaped, Zhu is red, like fire, and the south belongs to fire, so it is called Vermilion Bird. After the Five Elements Doctrine began to rise, its symbolic meaning was more Bingding and summer.

Many people think of it as a phoenix or a type of phoenix, but in fact, the Suzaku is very different from the Phoenix, and the Suzaku is one of the four spirits of the heavens and one of the four stars of the four directions is more noble than the phoenix, one of the four spirits of the Book of Rites. Qi Xinming's "Pan-Asian Theory" said that the ancient Yue Kingdom used the Vermilion Bird as a totem.

In modern times, due to the influence of the myth of the rebirth of the phoenix in the West and Japanese pop culture, the Chinese have also regarded the immortal bird as a vermilion bird in translation and cognition.

In fact, there is no saying in ancient Chinese myths and legends that the Vermilion Bird will be reborn from the fire, and the Phoenix Nirvana is just a poem written by Mr. Guo Moruo based on the legend of the Western immortal bird. Some people in modern times think that Suzaku is a type of phoenix, but in fact, Suzaku, one of the four spirits of the sky, has never been one of the four spirits of the Book of Rites.

Xuanwu

Xuanwu is a kind of spiritual creature composed of a turtle and a snake. The original meaning of Xuanwu is Xuanwu, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Shen are connected.

According to the Five Elements Doctrine, it is a spirit animal representing the north, with the image of a black turtle and snake (or turtle snake), and the season represented is winter.

(1) Xuanwu is a turtle and snake.

Ancient Divine Beasts

"The Barnyard of the Barnyard Tree": "The bullfighting woman has a turtle and snake body in the seven houses, so it is called Xuanwu." ”

"Chu Ci Far Travel": "Shi Yu (Ri Caught) is reckless, summoning Xuanwu and running to his subordinates. Hong Xingzu added: "Xuanwu is called a turtle and snake." Located in the north, it is called Xuan. There are scales and armor on the body, so it is called martial arts. ”

(2) "Xuanwu" turtle.

"The Book of Rites: Qu Li (I)" cloud: "Xuanwu, turtle also, turtle has armor, can be used to resist insults." ”

"Zhou Li" cloud turtle: "Each with its own color and its body distinguish." Zheng Zhuyun: "Belonging, words are not the same." Its color, the turtle Xuan, the so-called Xuanwu is also. ”

(3) Xuanwu is a turtle and a snake. "Zuo Biography": "Xuanwu is also in the north. The turtle and the snake are the two insects of Xuanwu, so the snake is the residence of Xuanwu, and the star of danger is also.

Introduction to the four murderers

梼杌

Originally, it was just a wicked person who was feared and disgusted, according to the eighteenth year of Wen Gong in the "Zuo Biography": "If you have no talent, you can't teach a lesson, you don't know what to say, you are stubborn if you tell it, you are arrogant if you give it up, you are arrogant and virtuous, and the people of the world are called Han Zhu." After the death of this unteachable wicked man, he eventually evolved into a famous demonic beast in ancient times, "The Divine Strange Scripture and the Western Wilderness" recorded that "in the Western Wilderness, there are beasts, its shape is like a tiger and dog hair, two feet long, human face, tiger feet, pig teeth, tail length one zhang eight feet, disturbing the wilderness, the name of the Han. "梼杌 is the son of 颛顼, it also has a name called arrogant, difficult to train, from these names, you can also roughly deduce its actions. Like Qi Qi, Han Qi later became one of the four murderers.

Poor Qi

"Two hundred and sixty miles to the west, it is called Tai Mountain. There is a beast on it, its shape is like a cow, the moth hair, the name is poor, the sound is like a dog, it is a cannibal. Mengshui comes out of Yan, and the south flow is injected into the ocean water, which has many yellow shellfish; Yingyu, the body of the fish and the wings of the bird, the sound is like a mandarin duck, and the water is big when you see it. "One of the four evils, used to describe people who are not careful, far away from gentlemen and close to villains, and treacherous people. "Historical Records: The Five Emperors" records the origin of Qiqi, "Shaohao's family has no talent, destroys faith and loyalty, worships evil words, and the world calls it poor." ”

"Divine Sutra" cloud: "There are beasts in the northwest, which resemble tigers, have wings and can fly, so they will kill people, know people's words, hear people fight and eat straight, hear people are faithful and eat their noses, and hear that people are evil and disobedient and kill beasts to give them, and the name is poor and strange." "This is the beast of great evil.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the North Classic of the Sea" said: "The poor strange shape is like a tiger, with wings, cannibalism from the beginning, and the food is sent out, in the north of the dog." One is from the foot. ”

gourmand

"The Divine Sutra: The Southwest Wilderness Sutra": "There are people in the southwest, hairy, and wearing pigs on their heads. Greedy as vicious, accumulating wealth without using it, and good at taking people's grains (the original work of the previous two sentences is "good for self-accumulation, not cannibalism", according to the "Historical Records of the Five Emperors" righteous citation). The strong take the old and the weak, and they are afraid of the strong and hit the single, which is called gluttony. "Spring and Autumn" glutton, Jinyun's untalented son. ”

"Zuo Chuan: The Eighteenth Year of Duke Wen" cloud: "The Jinyun clan is not talented, greedy for food, risky for bribes, greedy for extravagance, and cannot be tired; Accumulation and accumulation, do not know the extreme; No distinction between widows and orphans, no compassion for the poor. The people of the world compare the three evils, which is called gluttony. The so-called "Spring and Autumn" words of the "Divine Sutra" are this.

"Lü's Spring and Autumn Knowledge" cloud: "The cycle is gluttonous, there is a head without a body, cannibalism is not swallowed, and it harms its body." Song Luomi's "History of the Road: The Biography of Chiyou" notes the clouds: "The god of Chiyou Tianfu, the shape is not constant, three generations of Yi vessels, and many of them are like Chiyou, which is the ring of the greedy and abusive. Its image is in the shape of a beast, with meat wings. "As he said, he is also gluttonous.

"Zuo Biography" said that gluttony was "Jinyun's untalented", and the "Historical Records: Five Emperors' Benji" collection quoted Jia Xuan as saying: "Jinyun's family, surnamed Jiang, is also a descendant of Emperor Yan, and was an official in Jinyun when he was the Yellow Emperor." "Chiyou Jiang's surname is also a descendant of Emperor Yan ("Lu Shi Chiyou Biography"), so Chiyou is likely to be the "untalented" gluttony of the Jinyun clan. and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Second Classic of the North" recorded "roe deer (trumpet bird)", Guo Pu noted that it was the gluttony of "Zuo Chuan".

Attached: Roe deer: "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Three Classics of the North": "The Mountain of Hook Wu...... There is a beast, its shape is a sheep body and a human face, its eyes are in the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, its sound is like a baby, the name is roe deer, it is a cannibal. Guo Pu's note: "Greedy for things, cannibalism is not exhausted, and it also harms his body, like in Xia Ding, "The So-called Zuo Chuan" is gluttonous. ”

chaos

The chaos in the "Divine Sutra" is the chaos that has been scandalized by human beings. It speaks of chaos as a beast like a dog and a bear, with eyes but not seeing, ears but not hearing, legs but not walking, an empty belly but no internal organs, and extremely bad virtue, and when it encounters a virtuous person, it will resist with brute force.

The second volume of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" "The Classic of the West Mountains" clouds: "Three hundred and fifty miles to the west, it is said that the Tianshan Mountains are full of gold and jade, there are green and yellow yellows, and the water flows out of Yan, and the southwest flows into the Tang Valley. There is a sacred bird, its shape is like a yellow sac, red as a fire, six legs and four wings, Hun Dun has no face, it is a song and dance, but the emperor Jiang also. "Hun Dun is chaos, and the image of chaos is a divine bird that knows song and dance."

Luosang estimated in his heart that there were clues to the two Yi and two saints and the four spirits of heaven in Suzaku Prefecture, and I am afraid that there are four fierce beasts along with this clue, which is not a good thing for Suzaku Prefecture.

If there is really any divine beast born here, I am afraid that it will attract all the people from other places to come here, especially the power of Zhongzhou, and the status of the top ten war kings of Vermilion Bird Prefecture will definitely not be guaranteed, and maybe this place will become a battlefield for the kings, so I have to plan for the people around me in advance.