"Phoenix" and "Phoenix" originally refer to two kinds of colorful birds, the phoenix is the phoenix bird, the phoenix is the emperor bird, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" said: there are five picking birds, one is called the emperor bird, one is called the Luan bird,

The phoenix is called the phoenix bird, and it is also called the vermilion bird. Later generations usually interpreted the phoenix and phoenix as the same bird that is different from the male and female. The phoenix and the phoenix are not another name or incarnation of any birds that exist 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.

It is worth noting that some people believe that the image of the phoenix originates from the vermilion bird, and the "Five Elements of Righteousness" believes that the phoenix belongs to a kind of vermilion bird, which is diametrically opposed to the ancient book that the red bird is attributed to the five phoenixes.

There are many types of phoenixes, and their symbols vary depending on the species. Legend has it that there are five categories, namely the five phoenixes:

Taishi Ling Cai Heng said: Those who are like phoenixes have five colors, those who are red are phoenixes, those who are green are luan, those who are yellow are eagle chicks, those who are purple are cormorants, and those who are white are Honghu.

In addition to the phoenix, phoenix, luan three kinds, the more famous are cormorants, luans, luans, antiquators, sarrifols, birds, quails, hoofs, yan, luan, pheasants and other names or species, there is also a saying that Dapeng, Dijiang, Chongming birds are also classified as phoenixes.

There is a close relationship between the various names or species, and there are many theories.

When the title "phoenix" is generally used, it only refers to the phoenix and the phoenix, and other birds classified as phoenix cannot use the title phoenix, but should use their original name.

"The Analects of Confucius" says: "The phoenix has six elephants and nine buds. "The head is like the sky, the eyes are like the sun, the back is like the moon, the wings are like the wind, the feet are like the earth, and the tail is like the weft. Nine buds, mouth life, heart fit, deafness, tongue stretching, color brilliance, crown moment Zhu, distance sharp hook, sound excited, abdominal Wenhu. Xingming said to return to play, stop singing to help, night Ming said good, morning Ming said He Shi, Feiming said Langdu, food only sycamore bamboo. Therefore, the son wants to live in Jiuyi, from Fengxi. Things fly and give birth to children.

Luan, Nai Rui bird also.

Zhang Hua said: Luan, the phoenix, the first phoenix, the first phoenix, for a long time, the colorful change, its sound is like a bell. The cultural relics of Zhou are prepared, and the car is decorated with a big bell, and the sound of Luan is also, so it is changed to Luan driving.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of Nanshan": "(The Mountain of Nanyu) is full of water, and the southeast flows into the sea, and there are phoenix emperors and pelotins. Guo Pu's note: "Yifeng genus." ”

Zhuangzi Qiushuiyun: "There are birds in the south, and their names are chicks, not only sycamores, but not only sycamores, but not practice, not eating, and not drinking." ”

Honghu said in "Shuowen": "Hong, Honghu also." Again: "Hoof, Honghu also." ”

Wang's sentence reads the cloud: "The word Honghu is the name, and it is different from the Yellow Bird." This bird is white, different from the pale yellow of the yellow bird. ”

Naturalist Zhiyun: "Those who are thousands of years old are all born in viviparity." ”

Erya Yiyun: "The hoof is the turn of the crane's sound, and the descendants are quite famous for the hoof, saying that there is no so-called hoof outside the crane, so Piya has both 'crane' and 'hoof'. Gai Gu said that the hoofs are white when they are bathed, and white is the crane. The hooves chirped, and the cranes chirped. Turtles, dragons, Hong, and hooves are longevity, and longevity is also cranes. Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, the Yellow Bird built the Zhanggong Taiye Pond and sang, and it was called the Yellow Crane. The Crane Kingdom has a sea bird. There are many other books and texts that are either 'cranes' or 'hooves'. In this way, we know that there is no other so-called hoof. ”

The cormorant is the support of the phoenix, and the cloud of the "Bird Classic": the small one of the phoenix, called the cormorant. Colorful text, three years old to prepare also.

"Chinese" is: Zhou Zhixing also, the eagle sings in Qishan.

According to Guo Pu's note in "Erya Shi Bird", 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, "not only the sycamore, but not the practice, not the food, and the non-liquor spring and the drink".

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Tuzan" contains, the phoenix bears five kinds of image patterns:

"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, so it is said to be a negative courtesy. 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. ”

There was also a geographical masterpiece compiled by geographer Zhou Qufei "Lingwai Dai Answer", which gave a very detailed account of Phoenix:

The phoenix was born in the Dan Cave in the south, and only built its nest on the high cliff that Yongzhou was inaccessible to.

The phoenix is covered with colorful feathers, as big as a peacock, and a hundred birds will inevitably stand around it. 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, and after laying eggs, the male phoenix uses wooden branches mixed with peach gum to enclose the female phoenix in the nest, leaving only a small porone.

Then the male phoenix looks for food to feed the female, and if he gets food, he will remove the cover, and if he can't get food, he will seal the hole and suffocate the female phoenix to death.

And above this crater, speechless looked at the phoenix flying out of the lava and laughed, the flames became more and more ferocious, but the flames that erupted from the crater could not get close to the speechless body at all.

And it's still cool around me when I'm speechless.

After the phoenix circled the sky twice, the raging flames around it began to slowly converge, and finally turned into a small red bird and slowly fell from the sky.

This little red bird is actually a divine beast of Tianyin Gate that was seriously injured in the Zhengmo War.

When the 36 Demon Dao Sects were defeated and fled from the main gathering place of the Divine Continent, the strength of this phoenix had already reached its peak, and it was only one step away from the ascension, but it was seriously injured, and the ratio of heaven and earth aura in the Divine Continent was too thin, so it healed here all year round.

After years of cultivation, the little red bird's injuries finally improved, and its strength finally passed the peak and entered the Great Perfection of the Refining God Returning Void Realm, which is equivalent to the realm of human cultivators.

The little red bird slowly landed on the speechless shoulder, and said in a somewhat surprised tone:

"Hey, you're not ruthless!"

"How many years have passed, ruthless?"

The little red bird is a mythical beast, and it is an old monster who has lived for the last year, and its wisdom has been opened, so it can speak human language, but the way of speaking is still very archaic and difficult to understand, and it is difficult to understand its words without the basis of writing ancient languages.

"Lord Phoenix Immortal, the Ruthless Master has been dead for more than nine hundred years. ”

"What did you just say?"

"It can't be!"

"I have made an agreement with Ruthless, he will always stay here, and he will definitely wait for me to recover, and we will kill back to the Shenzhou Continent together!"

"How could he die, you're lying to me!"