Chapter 58: Entering the Netherworld for the First Time
The immortal clan in the heavenly court saw the battle between the human race and the demon race in the heavenly mirror, and their hearts were excited.
"Go add another fire to them!" The Immortal Emperor smiled. With a wave of his sleeves, he sent the four great divine beasts, the Green Dragon, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, and the Xuanwu, the gods of the four directions.
The green dragon, also known as the Canglong, is one of the four elephants in traditional Chinese culture, according to the Five Elements Theory, it is a spirit animal representing the East, a cyan dragon, the five elements belong to the wood, and the representative season is spring, the main shock of the eight trigrams.
The legend about the green dragon, in ancient times, near the Jufeng Mountain in the northern suburbs of Anqiu City, there is a huge annihilation, the bottom is not visible, no matter the drought or flood is not dry all the year round, the blue waves are rippling, the waves are sparkling, the strange stones on the shore stand, the cliff cliff is full of rare flowers and plants, the creeping plants are hanging to the water surface like a waterfall, people call this annihilation as the Qinglong Lake. Legend has it that there is a huge green dragon lurking in the lake.
A long time ago, there were phoenixes gathering and perching on the treasure mountain of Jufeng Mountain all year round, which brought blessings to the people here. This matter was known to Qinglong, the eldest son of the Dragon King of the East China Sea. This green dragon is long and majestic, with high mana, a kind heart, and yearns for auspiciousness and happiness. Qinglong heard that this phoenix settlement, and heard that there is a beautiful lake there, so he moved, he thought, that place must be extremely beautiful, besides, with the phoenix, and then there is a dragon, it is more auspicious, if he goes to that new world to live, live, how good it would be.
One day, he suddenly heard that there were two monsters at the mouth of the Wen River east of Jufeng Mountain, one was the one-horned Jiao, which led the fish, turtles, shrimps and crabs to play lanterns and lead the flood to wash away the village and farmland; One is the loach essence, which has been enlightened for thousands of years, and often opens its bloody mouth to hold the sky, blocking the sun and rain, so that the farmers have no harvest; They also acted in cahoots and sabotaged the Phoenix gathering. When Qinglong heard this, he became angry, and he came to his father and asked him to go to Jufeng Mountain. When the Dragon King of the East China Sea heard this, he was furious, his eyes widened, and he scolded his son: "I thought that I would let you inherit the throne of the Dragon King when I was old, but you, this bastard has no ambitions, and you still want to play the dragon and the phoenix!" Hearing his father say this, Qinglong shed tears aggrievedly, knelt down with a plop, and carefully explained his idea of going there to eliminate the evil and benefit the people. When the dragon king heard his son say that there were demons at the mouth of the Wen River, he was first surprised, and then worried: "Can you deal with the monsters at the mouth of the Wen River?" With the martial arts taught by my father, I will definitely defeat them!" Qinglong replied. The Dragon King of the East China Sea saw that his son had made up his mind, so he had to agree.
Qinglong said goodbye to his parents, left the rough sea, and went up the Wei River to the mouth of the Wen River, where he was blocked by a unicorn and a loach spirit. The unicorn and the loach spirit thought that the green dragon came to grab their territory, and saw that the green dragon was lonely, so they first provoked, and the two-way green dragon swooped down, the green dragon was not afraid, stood up to meet them, and the two monsters started a desperate struggle, for three days and three nights, regardless of victory or defeat. The mountains and rivers have changed, and the sun and moon have no light. Qinglong's brave act of exorcising evil spirits touched Anqiu's father, and one day, an old man who was fighting firewood took advantage of the truce between the two sides to make an idea to Qinglong to use a sand and a stone to separate the two monsters to cure.
Treat loach essence first. The loach's greatest ability is to drill into the mud, and it has great power in the silt of the Wen River estuary. Lao Suo suggested to Qinglong that the loach essence should be brought to the Wen River and then get rid of it, because there is no mud at the bottom of the Wen River, and it is all hard sand washed down from the West Laoyi Mountain, and the loach cannot get into it, and it can no longer be used. How do you bring it up? All fish hope that they can become dragons. It is said that when a fish drinks sake, it transforms into a dragon. So, the villagers poured Jingzhi wine into the Wen River. Sure enough, the loach spirit smelled the aroma of wine at the mouth of the river and greedily swam into the Wen River following the fragrance. The opportunity could not be missed, the green dragon soared into the air, held the dragon's horns, opened its claws, and attacked the loach spirit. The loach spirit was intoxicated, and suddenly found that the sky changed suddenly, and he felt that it was not good, so he bent over and drilled underwater, but he couldn't get into the sand hard, and was caught by the green dragon, and then locked it under the gorge.
Cure the unicorn again. The horns of the unicorn are abnormally sharp, and it relies on this weapon to do bad things. The loach spirit was caught, and the unicorn lost its good looks, so he became angry and swore to fight with Qinglong and the villagers. Qinglong listened to Lao Suo's instructions and climbed a nearby stone cliff called King Kong Cliff with his fellow villagers. The stone cliff wall stood thousands of miles, and the unicorn could not climb up, so it became more and more angry, so it launched a madness, and violently hit the stone cliff with its horns, wanting to knock down the stone cliff first, and then attack the green dragon and the villagers. But the rocky cliffs are sharp and hard. Not only did the one-horned Jiao not arch over the stone cliff, but its horn was knocked off by the rock, and its head suddenly burst with blood, screaming, and falling to the dust.
Qinglong defeated the monsters, removed the harm for the people, and finally came to the long-cherished Jufeng Mountain and the lake. The phoenixes shouted for joy in the mountains and in the heavens, thanking him. Since then, the phoenix has gathered in the phoenix mountains and sang harmoniously all year round; On the edge of the lake, the green dragon sows the rain on time. The people of Anqiu harvest every year, the year is auspicious, and a harmonious and happy picture of the dragon and phoenix is auspicious!
The White Tiger originated from the ancient star worship, is one of the seven Western Nakshatras, one of the four spirits of the sky, Taoism calls it "Supervisor", in different Taoist scriptures there are "Emperor", "Holy General", "Divine General" and "Ghost Hunter" and other titles.
The white tiger is also the god of war, with a variety of divine powers such as avoiding evil, fighting disasters, praying for abundance, punishing evil and promoting good, getting rich, and tying the knot, and is a symbol of power and dignity.
In the traditional culture of the Han nationality in China, it is one of the four elephants of the Taoist Western Seven Stars, according to the Five Elements Theory, it is a spirit animal that represents the West, because the West is golden, the color is white, so it is called the White Tiger, and the season represented is autumn. Others: Qinglong Oriental Spring, Suzaku Southern Summer, Xuanwu Northern Winter.
Vermilion Bird, also known as Vermilion Bird, is one of the four elephants in traditional Chinese culture, and its origin time should be no later than Spring and Autumn, one of the four spirits of the sky. It is the manifestation of the seven southern of the twenty-eight Nakshatras, and its body is covered with flames that will not be extinguished all day long. It is a sacred beast representing the south, the color of the representation is red, the sun is in the four elephants, the fire is in the five elements, the gossip is the separation, the season represented is summer, and it belongs to the Yan Emperor.
It shows that Xuanwu is one of the four elephants of traditional Chinese culture, according to the Five Elements Theory, it is a spirit animal representing the north, the image is a black turtle and snake, and the season represented is winter. In Taoism, Xuanwu was personified as a Xuanwu god and worshipped. The Song and Yuan dynasties worshipped the Xuanwu gods. In the Ming Dynasty, a large number of buildings were built in Wudang Mountain, and the Xuanwu God was worshipped. In the Twenty-Eight Houses, Xuanwu is the general name for the Seven Houses in the North. During the Song Zhenzong, Zhao Xuanlang was renamed Zhenwu for the sake of Zhao Xuanlang, the ancestor of the Song Dynasty.