Presumably, many people only know its name, but don't know its shape, let alone its real situation. Here is an introduction.
1. Zhongshan God
There are 16 mountains from Daughter Mountain to Jia Chao, stretching for 3,500 miles in Fiona Fang. Its mountain gods are all bibcock. Also known as Zhongshan God.
2. Aoin (dog business)
Three dangerous mountain man-eating beasts look like a cow with four horns. Their hair is very long, just like hemp fiber.
3. Zheng
Zhang Eshan, a thousand miles away, has no vegetation, and there are many green rocks. In this mountain, there is a terrible beast with five tails and a horn, which growls like lightning and feeds on tigers and leopards.
4. ancient tune
It is a terrible beast that eats people like a bird instead of a bird, like a leopard instead of a leopard. It has a horn and cries like a baby.
5. Di Jiang
The West Mountain Classic, the second volume of Shan Hai Jing, says: "Three hundred and fifty miles west of Tianshan Mountain, happy ever after, with realgar, flows in the Tang Valley in the southwest. There is a divine bird, which looks like a yellow sac, is as red as fire, and has six feet and four wings. It knows nothing about singing and dancing, but it's just Di Jiang. " It means that on the Tianshan Mountain in the west, there is a god bird, which is shaped like a yellow cloth pocket, red as fire, with six feet and four wings, but knows how to sing and dance. Its name is "Di Jiang". In addition, the monsters recorded in Zhuangzi and Lingyi Jing are also named after this name. The Yellow Emperor and the leader of Gonggong family are also called "Di Jiang" in some records.
6.the nine-tailed fox
"The kingdom of Qingqiu is in the north, and its fox has four feet in Kyubi no Youko." "Overseas East longitude" "There are green hills, foxes and Kyubi no Youko." According to the history book Wild East longitude, the nine-tailed fox contributed to the marriage between Dayu and Tu Shanshi, and became the earliest "marriage intermediary" in China ancient books. It is said that people who eat her meat can resist evil spirits and poison. The nine-tailed fox appeared three times in The Classic of Mountains and Seas, and later became a symbol of auspicious prosperity for future generations.
7. Jingwei
200 miles north, it is called Pigeon Mountain. There are many dead trees and birds on it. It is shaped like black, with a white beak and bare feet. It's called Jingwei, and its song is self-proclaimed. It's Yan Di's girl, named Girl. The girl drowned while swimming in the East China Sea, so she was Jingwei. She often holds the title of Xishan Wood and Stone, so that she is trapped in the East China Sea. Out of the water, it flows eastward into the river.
8. The name of the mountain god in Zhongshan is Yin Candle (Candle dragon).
Candle dragon opened his eyes, the world is the sky; Candle dragon closes his eyes, and the world is night; Candle dragon breathed a sigh of relief, the world is winter; Candle dragon breath, the world is summer. Candle dragon never eats, drinks or smells. Once he exhales, there will be wind. He is a snake, thousands of miles long, and his face is red.
9. Qiong Qi, the four great beasts of ancient times.
China's legendary evil god looks like an ox, looks like a tiger, is covered with hedgehog hair and has wings. Qiong Qi barks like a dog and eats people for a living. It is said that Qiong Qi often flies to the scene of fights and bites off the nose of the reasonable party; If someone does something bad, Qiong Qi will catch wild animals and give them to him, and encourage him to do more bad things. However, Qiong Qi has its advantages. In an exorcism ceremony called Nuo, there are twelve kinds of beasts that devour evil spirits, called Twelve Gods or Twelve Beasts, and Qiong Qi is one of them.
10. Four ancient beasts of China
There is a beast, which looks like a tiger, has dog hair, is two feet long, has a human face, a tiger's foot, a pig's mouth and teeth, and its tail is one foot eight feet long, thus it is named. Used to describe people with fierce and stubborn attitudes. According to legend, he is the son of Zhuan Xu, the Northern Heaven Emperor, with a proud and unruly name. From these names, we can also roughly infer its actions. Like Qiong Qi, Yaoyao later became one of the four leading soldiers.
1 1. The chaos of the four great beasts in ancient China.
According to Zuo Zhuan, the images of these four murderers are a chaotic giant dog, a gluttonous man with a sheep's head and eyes under his arm, Qiong Qi, a big tiger with wings, and coy with wild boar's fangs on one leg.
12. The gluttony of the four ancient beasts (tāo tiè)
Legend has it that Xuanyuan fought Chiyou, who was beheaded, and became a glutton when he first landed. There are cloud beasts in the mountains and seas, which are shaped like sheep's body and human face, with their eyes under their arms, and their teeth are Tiger Claw, and their voices are like babies. They are called roebuck, and they are cannibals. There is also one of the nine sons, which is said to be "the dragon gave birth to nine sons." .. this seems to be the beast that made him call me dad.
13. Baize, a beast among ancient beasts
The famous beast on Kunlun Mountain, covered in snow-white, can speak human words and understand the feelings of all things, and rarely appears, unless a saint ruled the world and brought books. It is an auspicious animal, which can turn people into good luck. The Yellow Emperor cruised the East China Sea, and when he met this beast, he could speak and reach the love of all things. Ask ghosts and gods in the world. Since ancient times, there have been 520 kinds of people, whose essence is things and wandering souls are changes. Bai Ze said it, and the emperor ordered it to be written for the world to see.
14. Kirin
Also known as "Kirin" or "Lin" for short, it is an animal recorded in ancient books in China. Together with phoenix, turtle and dragon, they are called "four spirits" and are the mounts of God. The ancients regarded Kirin as a benevolent beast, an auspicious beast. The man's name is Qi and the woman's name is Lin. After Zheng He brought giraffes to the west in the Ming Dynasty, it was used to refer to giraffes (which is still the case in Japan). Often used as a metaphor for outstanding people.
15. The legendary White House
This is definitely not a traditional Chinese character! ! Then, he was a far cry from Yue Xian in the TV series Zhu Ling. . The TV series is derailed again! ! Legend has it that after Pangu created the world, Nu Wa was very lonely, so she made people out of mud and made her pet into a snake god. One is that the silver pheasant is female; One is a snake and the other is a male. It was not enough for the goddess to repair the five-color stone in the sky, so she tried to fill the sky with her own body, and Bai Bian and Teng Snake followed suit. (the appearance is similar to the above picture. )
16. Animals: Lingyu
In Jiao Ren, there are spiritual fish in the mermaid sea, and the mermaid has hands and feet, crying like a child. Some ancient books call it Jiao Ren, while others call it a mermaid. There are several references to mermaids in Shan Hai Jing. It is said that it lives in a mountain stream, and may be a pomfret, that is, a giant salamander, rather than a mythical mermaid. The mythical mermaid may be a creature like the mermaid seen in the west, so it should be extinct.
17. Sanzuwu
Espeon in ancient China was also considered as the messenger of the sun. In ancient China, it was said that the sun was the place where Sanzu House lived, and people worshipped the sun. Sanzu House is also worshipped as a symbol of good fortune. It is said that Wu, with ten legs, kept running in the sky, and the ground was dry and scorching. Emperor Yao ordered Hou Yi to shoot all the birds with three legs. As a result, Houyi shot nine, leaving one. From then on, there was only one sun, and it set at night. Some people say that Sanzu House is an elf who serves the Queen Mother of the West.
The reason why the image of ancient god beast in China looks scary is not only the imagination of the mysterious power of supernatural existence, but also the expression and presentation of religious belief. These frightening images are closely related to China's ancient cultural traditions and religious beliefs, and have important historical and cultural significance.
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