One, the four spirits of the five elements beast The most famous representative of the five elements beast is the four spirits of heaven. They are Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu. The four of them are integrated into the five elements and directions respectively. The oriental green dragon is a wood attribute, the western white tiger is a metal attribute, the southern suzaku is a fire attribute, and the northern Xuanwu is a water attribute. The ancients used these four beasts to represent four directions and divided the sky into three walls, four elephants and seven stars. Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu represent the four-elephant star areas, each with seven stars. Seven show, the Oriental Dragon for the benefit of Qinglong, is Jiaomujiao, Kang Jinlong, Nyctereute, Fangri Rabbit, Xinyue Fox, Tail Fire Tiger and Jishui Leopard.
Second, Ying Long and Ying Long are in the center of the sky, and the representative color is yellow, which belongs to the soil property. This record is from Huainanzi. According to legend, Ying Long, also known as Huanglong, is a creation dragon god. There is a legend that Ying Long divided Yin and Yang and paid Pangu from his dragon egg. According to the Taoist dictionary, Ying Long is the god who fought for seven nights and ruled the stars in the sky. But anyway, it is said that Ying Long is a god beast belonging to the Five Elements.
Three, Gou Chen, Kirin In the hexagrams of Zhouyi, there are two other animals that can be juxtaposed with or slightly lower than the four elephants, namely Gou Chen and Teng Snake, of which Gou Chen is the central territory. However, this statement appears again in Yi Mao. This is a book compiled by A Qing Dynasty. This book also says that Gou Chen is actually a unicorn. In the Book of Rites, it is recorded that Kirin is the four spirits alongside phoenix, turtle and dragon.
These two statements can only be regarded as one-sided, and these two soil properties are also compiled by the author who is easy to get, but I don't know where he got the information. So, to sum up, Ying Long is the most famous name of the earth beast in central China, followed by Gou Chen and Kirin.