A few days later, Chen Feng's family moved to live in Chen's house.

The days in Tianshui City were very comfortable, practicing martial arts every day, teasing Xiao Xuanxuan, talking with Rong'er, and living a very comfortable life. Chen Feng also enjoyed this peaceful day extraordinarily.

Until a month later, several terrifying beast roars suddenly came from the direction of the Tianshui Forest, including the sound of a phoenix, the roar of a tiger, and a faint loud dragon roar.

The sound contained the terrifying power of heaven and earth, and it actually came from the Tianshui Forest from afar, so that the people of the entire Tianshui City could hear it clearly.

"What's going on? Is it the beast tide coming? Chen Feng's complexion changed slightly.

At this time, the little maid Xiao Xiao ran in from outside the door.

"Uncle, uncle, the city lord has come to you, in the living room." The little maid Xiao Xiao hurriedly ran in.

"Hmm." Chen Feng's eyes moved, and he vaguely guessed that it was related to the roar of the beast in the Tianshui Forest, and immediately got up and walked in the direction of the living room.

Running through the mystery, his figure flickered a few times, and the next moment, Chen Feng appeared in the living room.

"Brother Dongfang, why are you in such a hurry to come to me? I heard a few powerful beast roars just now, it could be that something had happened in the Tianshui Forest. Chen Feng asked.

"Yes." Dongfang Peng nodded with a stern face.

"Beast tide?" Chen Feng asked.

"It's not clear, it's a bit complicated." Dongfang Peng pondered for a while and said, "Whether the beast tide will break out, I don't know. It's just that the Four Spirit King Beasts appeared in the Forest of Tianshui, and many powerful martial saints have rushed over, and you must have heard the roars of the beasts just now. It was the roar of the Four Spirit King Beasts. ”

The Four Spirit King Beasts are a very special spirit beast. The Four Spirit King Beasts refer to the four spirit beasts of the king-level peak bloodline, which are the Green Dragon Jiao, the White Jade Tiger, the Fire Phoenix Bird, and the Xuantu Turtle.

Among them, the fire phoenix bird flows in the blood of the ancient divine beast Vermilion Bird. The green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu are called the four spirit beasts. It is a top-level existence among the divine beasts, which shows that its bloodline is very powerful.

Suzaku. It's one of the phoenixes.

Phoenix, also known as "Phoenix Emperor", the king of birds in ancient myths and legends. The male is called "phoenix", and the female is called "phoenix", which is generally called phoenix, also known as red bird, firebird, pheasant, phoenix, etc. It is often used to symbolize auspiciousness, and the phoenix flies together, which is a symbol of auspiciousness and harmony, and has been an important element of Chinese culture since ancient times.

The image of the phoenix is the same as that of the dragon. The more complicated it becomes, the more complicated it is, and finally there is a red head, a lun buttocks, a snake neck, a fish tail, a dragon pattern, a turtle body, a swallow's chin, a chicken's mouth, a body like a mandarin duck, wings like a big peng, and legs like a crane, which is a kind of divine object formed by the collection of a variety of birds and birds. "Phoenix" and "Phoenix" originally referred to two different sacred birds in mythology, the phoenix is the wind bird, and the phoenix is the light bird. The phoenix and phoenix are not another name or incarnation of any bird that exists in reality. It is because of the concept of "phoenix" that people try to find some images of birds from reality, to echo and materialize this kind of phoenix that does not exist in reality.

There are many types of phoenixes, and their symbols vary depending on the species. There are five categories in the legend. i.e. the five phoenixes:

Red Vermilion Bird, Blue Green Luan, Yellow Bird, White Bird and Purple Bird According to the ancient records, there were many different types of phoenixes. There are different opinions, and many of them belong to the additions of the descendants of the Qin and Han dynasties. Among them, there are three kinds of phoenix, phoenix and luan. People are familiar with the Xuanniao, Vermilion Bird, Golden Crow, and the more famous ones are cormorants, pelicans, ducks, quails, pistols, beams, quails, hoofs, Yan, dogs, pheasants and other names or species. There is also a saying that Dapeng, Dijiang (Dihong), and Chongming Bird are also classified as phoenixes. There is a close relationship between the various names or species, and there are many theories. When the term "phoenix" is generally used. It only refers to the phoenix and the phoenix, and other birds classified as the phoenix cannot be called the phoenix, but should use their original name. Suzaku is one of the four spirits, and like the other three spirits, it comes from the stars, and is the general name of the seven southern spirits: well, ghost, willow, star, zhang, wing, and zhen. Zhu is red, like fire, and the south belongs to fire, so it is called Phoenix. It also has the property of being reborn from the fire, and it is the same as the immortal bird in the West, so it is also called the fire phoenix. Qingluan's "Classic of Mountains and Seas" Volume 2: "The West Mountain is two hundred and twenty miles west, and it is said that the mountain of three dangers and the three blue birds are located." Guo Puyun: "The three blue birds are the predators of the Queen Mother of the West, don't inhabit this mountain." Wang Qi's note quoted "Art and Literature Gathering": ""Decisive Doubt" said: ...... The more red ones are phoenixes, and the more cyan ones are luan. "Qingluan is a mythical bird of the phoenix that is said to be blue, and it is a kind of sacred bird that often accompanies the Queen Mother of the West. Also known as Cangluan. In "Romance of the Gods", Qingluan and Huofeng turned into Nezha's Hot Wheels together. It is explained that its body is as large as a chicken and its shape is close to that of a peacock, its plumage is beautiful, it does not fly much, and it often walks briskly.

Eagle Owl "Classic of Mountains and Seas. Nanshan Jing": "(Nanyu Mountain) Zuoshui out of Yan, and the southeast flows into the sea, there are phoenix emperors, peans. Guo Pu's note: "Yifeng genus." "Zhuangzi. Autumn Water": "The husband and the eagle are born in the South China Sea and fly in the North Sea, not more than the sycamore, not the practice of not eating, not the spring of the drink." Jin Yuanhao asked "Nanguanxing": "Wang Sun is a guest, and the bamboo flowers are not real and the chicks are hungry." ”

"Elementary School Pearls" volume 10: "The phoenix elephant is five, and the five-colored and red one is the red bird; Yellow Eagle Chick; Qingzhiluan; The purple one is the cormorant, and the white one is the bird. "The Bird is a white phoenix. In ancient pronunciation, the pronunciation of hung and yellow, and the pronunciation of hoofs and cranes were easily confused. Therefore, the bird is often misread as the yellow bird, the yellow crane, etc. The cormorant is one of the five phoenixes in ancient Han folklore, black or purple, and symbolizes a more unyielding quality. In "Elementary School Pearls", it refers to a kind of water bird, which looks like a big red eye. They always fly both male and female, and are more loving than mandarin ducks. When one of them dies, the other screams for three days and nights. In the end, the blood was cold and dry, and it was subordinate to Jiuquan. According to the book "Erya. Guo Pu notes that the appearance characteristics of the phoenix are: "chicken head, swallow jaw, snake neck, turtle back, fish tail, five colors, six feet high". "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" contains: "The elephant of the phoenix, the front and the deer of the Lin, the head of the snake and the tail of the fish, the back of the dragon and the turtle, the swallow-jawed chicken beak, and the five-color preparation." Out of the country of oriental gentlemen, soaring beyond the four seas, passing through Kunlun, drinking pillars, weak water, staying in the wind cave at dusk, seeing the world is peaceful. "The phoenix has a noble personality." Non-sycamore, non-practice and non-food. If you don't drink it, you don't drink it". Tuzan", the phoenix is carrying five kinds of image words: "The first text is said to be virtuous." The wing text is said to be smooth, the back text is said to be righteous, the belly text is said to be letter, and the text is said to be benevolent. "Hug Puzi" explains this: "The husband's behavior is benevolent and green." The crested head is green, so it is called Dai Ren. Gold is righteous and white. The phoenix neck is white, so it is said to be righteous. Fire salutes, for red. The phoenix mouth is red. Therefore, it is said that the negative etiquette is also. Water behavior is wise, black, phoenix chest black, so it is still known. The earth line is a letter, and it is yellow. The phoenix's feet are yellow, so it is said that the letter is also. The Southern Song Dynasty geographer Zhou Qufei compiled the geographical masterpiece "Lingwai Dai Answer", which describes the phoenix in great detail: the phoenix was born in the Danxue in the south, and only built its nest on the high cliff in Yongzhou (now Nanning, Guangxi). The phoenix is covered in multicolored feathers and is as big as a peacock. When a hundred birds meet, they must stand around. The crest of feathers on the top of the head is always filled with water, and the male and female take turns to eat, never approaching the human world. It is also recorded that the phoenix nests in the deep forests of the Liangjiang region. After laying eggs, the male phoenix mixes peach gum with wooden branches to enclose the female in the nest. Only a small stomata remains. The male then looks for food to feed the female, and if he gets food, he removes the cover. If you can't get food, you will close the hole and suffocate the female to death. In the early days, social productivity was low, and people survived in harsh natural environments. They are not able to independently control the forces of nature, nor can they explain their own origins, they are full of illusions, longings and even fears of the natural world, and worship all kinds of natural or supernatural forces that are more powerful than human beings, which is the social basis for the emergence of totems and ghosts. Hemudu phoenix bird totem worship is mostly associated with sun worship. The well-known three-legged black was originally the "sun bird in the sun"; The Sichuan Jinsha "Sun God Bird" gold ornament used in the Chinese cultural heritage logo is also the shape of four sacred birds rotating and flying around the sun. This dual worship of the sun and birds led to the birth of an important image of Chinese culture, the phoenix. "White Tiger Pass. The Five Elements records that Zhu Rong, the ancestor of the Chu people, is the god in charge of fire under the command of Emperor Yan on behalf of the sun. It can be seen that in the eyes of the Chu people, the phoenix and the sun are the incarnations of their ancestors, and the worship of both comes from the belief in bird totems. The origin of the phoenix is about the Neolithic Age, and many bird patterns on the pottery of the primitive society are the prototype of the phoenix. This discovery provides valuable physical materials for unraveling the mystery of the "birth" of the phoenix. On the neck and shoulders of the white clay pot of the Yuanshui Phoenix, there are two flying mythical birds, one on the front and the other on the side, with a strong posture. They have the distinctive characteristics of the mythical and legendary phoenix: they have a crown, a very long beak, a long neck, and a beautiful long tail. The most peculiar thing is that the food sacs of the two phoenixes are also stamped with fangs and tongues, which is obviously a combined fetish at this time. The phoenix does not exist in history and in real life, and like the dragon, it is imagined by human beings and is a bridge between man and God. With the help of dragons and phoenixes, human beings communicate with nature. The phoenix is a kind of divine animal created by human beings in primitive society for their piety, worship and worship of the gods. The dragon and the phoenix are both the two major totem systems of the Chinese nation, and the worship of the phoenix is a strong national complex. The Chinese have endowed the phoenix with many beautiful characteristics: beauty, auspiciousness, kindness, tranquility, virtue, and nature. But the phoenix is not created out of thin air, judging from the phoenix pattern found at the Gaomiao cultural site, its original shape has a lot to do with the peacock. In the oracle bone inscription, "wind" leads to "phoenix". Yinxu once unearthed a piece of oracle bone, "Jiayinbu, whistling net, get the wind." Bingchen, won five. "The meaning of this oracle bone inscription is: The king of Shang instructed his ministers to catch birds with nets, and Yu Bingchen caught five phoenixes on this day." Because it is the use of the net Pu, it is obtained from the birth of the phoenix" in the early Jin Wen "Zhongding" inscription: "...... Return to the king. The word "shengfeng" mentioned in the article, Guo Moruo once concluded that the earliest classic record referring to the living phoenix is the "Shangshu. YU Shu. Yiji Fifth". The book describes that after Dayu controlled the water, a celebration ceremony was held. The music was presided over by Kui Long, and the birds and beasts sang and danced during the ceremony. In the end, the phoenix also came - "Xiao Shao is ninety, and the phoenix emperor is coming". Business. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the phoenix was regarded as a sacred bird. Therefore, the depiction of phoenix patterns on jade and bronze objects prominently expresses the ruler's concept of "Mandate of Heaven". At this time, the phoenix patterns are almost all corolla-shaped, plump wings, long tail feathers, and wide and powerful claws, showing a brave and strong attitude. The phoenix character in the oracle bone inscription and the gold inscription also completely shows such a characteristic, and the phoenix pattern at this time is completely mystified and artistically exaggerated. The main formal characteristics of the phoenix patterns on the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the specific view of the archaeological community, is that these phoenix patterns are all side images of birds, and they are often arranged in a symmetrical way on the bronzes. The phoenix crown has three kinds of toothed crowns, long crowns and flower crowns, and all birds with hooked beaks can be called phoenixes, and most of the beaks are closed hook-shaped. The eyes of the head are mostly round or oval, and the phoenix body is the shape of a bird or a chicken. The ratio of length to length often varies depending on the part of the decoration. The corolla and phoenix patterns are all made of the volume type, and the head and tail of the phoenix are connected, and they are mainly decorated on the pot and the utensils. The most varied phoenix pattern is the tail feathers, which come in the form of long tails, vertical tails, split tails and symmetrical tails. The longest tail of the long-tailed phoenix can reach three-quarters of the bird's body, and the exaggerated technique is amazing. The tail end of the long tail or phoenix bird pattern is different from the upper volume and the lower volume, and they are mainly popular from the middle of Yinxu to the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The tail feathers of the phoenix are wider and drooping, which is called the hanging tail phoenix pattern, which prevailed in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Due to the change of composition, the tail feathers and the phoenix body are separated, that is, the tail is split. There are also differences between the upper and lower volumes, and most of them prevailed in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

There are two sayings for the "four spirits": one is the lin, the phoenix, the turtle, and the dragon; The other is the Green Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Xuanwu. The phoenix or the Vermilion Bird is one of the "Four Spirits" and represents the southern direction. In the "Spring and Autumn Ritual Diagram", it is said: "The phoenix is the fire spirit, and the sky is the vermilion bird", and Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "The phoenix, the southern vermilion bird." It can be seen that the phoenix, the vermilion bird, and the vermilion bird actually refer to the same kind of sacred bird. and "Collected Memories" recorded: "Yao reigned for seventy years...... There is a country of branches, and the bird of the heavy light is offered,...... It is like a chicken, and it is like a phoenix, and it can chase away fierce beasts, tigers and wolves, so that the demons and disasters cannot be harmed...... When it does not arrive, the people of the country either carve wood, or cast gold, for this bird, placed between the portals, then the charm and ugliness will naturally retreat. According to this, archaeologists believe that in the stone tomb of the Han portrait, the symmetrical birds and beasts engraved on the head of the tomb door, the bird has a crown and wings, if the phoenix, that is, it is taken from the Chongming bird, and it is believed that she can drive away the ghosts and ghosts, so it is used to decorate the tomb door and the dragon pattern.

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"Fang Cai's dragon roaring tiger roaring phoenix, it is not the green dragon Jiao, the white jade tiger and the fire phoenix bird three-headed four-spirit king beast appeared in the Tianshui Forest at the same time." Chen Feng said: "By the way, which martial saints are coming?" Is it from the six major forces? (To be continued......)