Chapter 595: Cloud Danger (2)
Liu Zhongtai and Wu Qun chatted, while Tu Yun's divine consciousness was brought into another space of the Six Souls Space by the Six Souls, and that space was about the stars of the Holy Beast, also called the Star Space, which belonged to a small space in the Six Souls Space.
In the star space, Tu Yun is now located in a constellation called the Twenty-Eight Constellations, also known as the Twenty-Eight Houses or Twenty-Eight Stars, which divides the stars in the South Middle Heaven into twenty-eight groups, and its circle of stars distributed along the ecliptic or celestial equator (the earth's equator extends to the sky), it is divided into four groups, also known as the Four Elephants, the Four Beasts, the Four Dimensions, and the Four Gods, each group has seven constellations, and its origin is not completely clear.
Originally, it was the twenty-eight star officials selected in ancient times to compare the movements of the sun, the sun, the yin, the metal, the wood, the water, the fire, and the earth, as the markers of observation. The meaning of the zodiac is similar to that of the zodiac, and it means the horoscope table. Indicates the position of the sun and moon stars. In the Tang Dynasty, the Twenty-Eight Heavens became the main body of the Twenty-Eight Heavenly Regions, which were still named after the Twenty-Eight Heavens, and unlike the Sanyuan Quarter, as the Celestial Regions, the Twenty-Eight Heavens were mainly for the purpose of dividing the belonging of the star officials.
The names of the 28 houses are arranged from west to east as follows: the Seven Houses of the Eastern Canglong (Jiao, Kang, Di, Fang, Heart, Tail, and Kei), the Seven Houses of Xuanwu in the North (Dou, Niu, Nu, Xu, Wei, Room, and Wall), the Seven Houses of the White Tiger (Kui, Lou, Stomach, Pleiades, Bi, Mi, and Ginseng) in the West, and the Seven Houses of the Vermilion Bird (Jing, Ghost, Liu, Xing, Zhang, Wing, and Zhen) in the South.
The twenty-eight Nakshatras start from the Horns and are arranged from west to east, in the same direction as the apparent movement of the Sun and Moon:
The East is called the green dragon: Jiaomu Jiao 02 Kang Jinlong 02 Di Tu Raccoon Fang Ri Rabbit Heart Moon Fox Tail Fire Tiger Kei Water Leopard;
In the south, it is called Vermilion Bird: Jingmu Spirit, Golden Sheep Willow, Earth Roe Deer, Star Sun Horse, Zhang Yue, Deer Wing, Fire Snake, Water Worm;
The West is called the White Tiger: Kui Wood Wolf 02 Lou Jin Dog Stomach Pheasant Pleiades Sun Chicken Bi Yue Wu Mi Fire Monkey Ginseng Ahuizotl;
In the north, it is called Xuanwu: Doumu Hedgehog, Taurus Female, Earth Bat, Void Sun Rat, Dangerous Moon Swallow Chamber, Fire Pig Wall, Otter.
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.
Due to the derivation of the five elements of aura, the story of the green dragon began to circulate; the monks with the five elements of the aura of the five elements according to the five elements of yin and yang to the south, south, north, west and northwest with five colors, and each color with a divine beast and a god; the east is cyan, with the dragon, the west is white, with the tiger, the south is vermilion, with the bird, the north is black, with the martial arts, and the yellow is the central positive color.
Among the gods of the four directions, according to the ancient books, 'Zhurong in the south, the body of the beast and the face of the man, multiply two dragons.' ’;‘ The west is harvested, there is a snake in the left ear, and there are two dragons. ’;‘ There is a sentence in the east, with a bird and a human face, and two dragons. ’;‘ Northern Yujiang, black body and siblings, riding two dragons. The more interesting point is that the dragons in the ancient records are all ridden, and the snakes of the same kind are 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, the Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, the Green Dragon, and the White Tiger represent the twenty-eight quarters of the four directions, and the dragon is the seven houses of the East - horns, Kang, Di, Fang, heart, tail, Kei, and the shape of these seven houses is very similar to the shape of a dragon, from their literal meaning can be seen, the horn is the horn of the dragon, Kang is the neck, the 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 is the male dragon, the two-horned one is called the dragon, the single-horned one is called Jiao, the hornless one is the cockroach, in ancient times, the jade pendant often has a large and small double dragon, still called the mother and child cockroach, the status of the dragon is much higher than other holy beasts. Because the dragon is a divine creature, it is supreme, and it is also 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 in the ancient books, there is a saying that the dragon is sexually lewd, and the unicorn is born when the cow is intercourse, and the elephant is born when the pig is intercourse. The so-called dragon gives birth to nine sons, which is not like the saying of dragons.
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 many of the emperor's magic weapons and even treasures may also be variants of the prison 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's a foreign product.,Introduced to the various parts of the Soul Continent with Buddhism.,So the character is a bit like a 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 of the sects of the Soul Continent 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 presides over justice and can distinguish between right and wrong, so it is placed on the top and bottom of the prison gate, the two gates and halls, and the top of the cards that the emperor quietly avoids when he goes out on patrol, in order to maintain the solemnity of the surrounding environment.
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 with Buddhism at the time of the flood and famine. 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.
The Western White Tiger is often compared to the dragon among the four holy beasts of the Soul Continent, and the tiger is the chief of all beasts, its majesty and the legendary ability to subdue ghosts make it also become a yang divine beast, often following the dragon to go out, 'clouds from the dragon, wind from the tiger' has become the best pair of partners to subdue ghosts.
The white tiger is also the god of war and the god of killing, and the white tiger has a variety of divine powers such as avoiding evil, fighting disasters, praying for abundance and punishing evil, making a fortune, 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 explores the cemetery, the terrain that protrudes on the left and right sides in front of the terrain can be used as a tomb, and has a unique title, called the left green dragon and the right white tiger, taking the meaning of its protection, and there is the same decoration in the halls of each sect, 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 a term for 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), inner Dan is in terms of the five elements of yin and yang, dragon yang, born in Li, separated from fire, so the cloud 'dragon comes out of the fire', Tiger Yin, born in Kan, Kan belongs to water, so the cloud 'tiger is born to the water', after the combination of the two, one yin and one yang, reconcile with each other, called the Tao Ben, are the representatives of the Yuan Shen and the Yuan Jing.
Another way of saying is that sex belongs to wood, wood represents the East, Yu hexagram is shock, so it is compared to the green dragon, love belongs to gold, gold represents the West, Yu hexagram is exchange, gold is white, so it is called the white tiger. Gold can overcome wood, so the feelings are more destructive, and with the true essence of the twenty-eight, so that it is one, then the gold and wood are inseparable, the dragon and tiger are self-professed into 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.
It is recorded in ancient books that tigers are terrible things and respectable things. The scary thing is that it eats people and animals. And what is respectable is that because of its incomparable power, it can ward off evil. 'Draw the tiger in the door, the ghost dare not enter', 'The tiger, the yang, the chief of the beasts. It can stubbornly frustrate and devour ghosts. Today, people have died of evil, and they burn tiger skins and drink them. Striking its claws can also ward off evil. This is also true. 'In ancient times, humans also believed that the white tiger was an auspicious thing: 'Virtue to birds and beasts.' ’
The original star gods of the West Heavens were bears and owls, but later because of the totems of the ancient Qiang tribe, when the bear changed to a dragon. When the Yellow Emperor developed to the east, the totem of the dragon was brought to the east, and the 'Oriental Canglong Constellation' became one, and the Vermilion Bird became the new residence of the phoenix totem in the heavenly kingdom when the south was unified, and finally became the 'dragon and phoenix Chengxiang' due to the integration of the two major tribes. As an ancient totem, it is the east phoenix and the west dragon, and as a star sign, it is the east dragon and the west vermilion bird. After the Zhou Dynasty, the feudal system was formally established, the idea of the five elements was also matured, the heavenly statue was redivided, and the Vermilion Bird was placed in the south and worshiped together with the god of Zhurong Fire. And the Western ones worship the white tiger. In the tribal struggle and migration, the dragon in the northwest moved to the east, the phoenix in the east moved to the south, and the tiger in the south moved to the north. In the Han Dynasty, the concept of the five elements became a unified thought, and then Xuanwu was supplemented to complete the supporting facilities of the 'God of the Four Directions'.