As the head of the six beasts, horses are not only used for transportation, but also powerful military equipment. The Warring States described the strength of national strength by the number of horse-drawn chariots such as the country of a thousand riders and the country of a thousand riders.
Kings and generals of all ages were proud of having good horses. Zhou Muwang has eight champions. In order to get a bloody BMW, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made two expeditions to Dawan. Emperor Taizong loves six horses, showing purple fist hair? , Qing Dynasty, Ten Fachi, Tele, Baiti House, carved in Zhaoling in recognition of meritorious military service. There are Qin Shihuang's chasing the wind, the white rabbit, Xiang Yu's dark horse, Liu Bei's Lu, Guan Yu's red rabbit, and so on.
Maxima is rare, and horse racing has become an important profession. According to legend, horse racing experts include Qin Mugong's courtiers Bole (Sun Yang) and Fang Jiukun, and Zhao Jianzi's courtiers Uber. There are many swift horses in the world, but Bole is not. People often use a swift horse as a metaphor for talents.
Nomads in the north especially like horses. The snow-white myth of horse god is circulating in Baoan nationality; The Daur people call a horse Wen Gu, which is forbidden for women to ride. Manchu also has the custom of offering sacrifices to gods and horses. Shan Hai Jing describes Tianma, which looks like a white dog with a black head and flies when people see it.
sheep
The ancients regarded sheep as virtuous animals, kind, benevolent and polite. Good sheep, sheep like to flock. Kindness means that sheep are kind and have horns but are not good at fighting. Death means that the sheep are quiet when they are slaughtered, so there is the story of Wang Xuan exchanging sheep for cattle. Courtesy is the sheep's gratitude, and the sheep's kneeling milk symbolizes filial piety.
Shuo Wen Jie Zi says: Beauty is sweet, from sheep to big, sheep is beautiful. Li Xiaoding, a linguist, interprets beauty as the shape of a suspected elephant decorated on the head of a sheep in Oracle Bone Inscriptions's annotation. Whatever the explanation, there is no doubt that sheep is a symbol of beauty.
"Zhouyi? Thai hexagrams take October as the complex hexagrams, and one yang is born in the next; December is Linbu, Eryang is born in the next, the first month is Taibu, and Sanyang is born in the next. When winter goes and spring comes, the yin disappears and the yang grows. At the beginning of the year, three sheep were used to show good luck and peace, and the people changed to three sheep to open Thailand. The New Year pictures depicted three big sheep with paper-cuts to pray for the peace of the country and the people.
In ancient mythology, the one-horned goat named Avenger was the assistant of Hao Tao, the god of justice. Wang Chong's "On Balance and Response": Hao Tao is in charge of prisons, and those who are suspected of their crimes make the sheep touch them. Touch if you are guilty, but don't touch if you are innocent. Miscellaneous Five Elements Book: County (hanging) Yangtoumen, except thieves. Avengers are also one of the six kinds of beasts in front of Shinto Tomb in Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum.
monkey
There are many legends about monkeys being ancestors. According to Shan Hai Jing, it is shaped like a Yu arm, and the leopard and tiger are good at casting, and it is called the great wealth. The visible image is actually a monkey. According to the myth of Chengdu, Pangu created the world, and Fuxi Nuwa among monkeys gave birth to human beings. The ancient Tubo recorded the changes of his ancestors' monkeys in The Collection of Tibetan Kings. In the Qiang myth "Mu Jie Zhu and Ran Biwa", Ran Biwa burned all the monkey hair and became a beautiful man.
The Monkey King in The Journey to the West is a brilliant representative of the monkey image. The prototype of the Monkey King is said to be taken from the Indian monkey Hanuman; I also think that the mythical image has no support. The Song Dynasty's Taiping Guangji depicts Qi as helpless, good at dealing with languages such as golden-eyed, snowy-toothed apes, with a neck stretching 100 feet, surpassing nine elephants, and fighting and squatting, similar to the Monkey King's martial arts. The monkey king was named Bi because the ancients thought that monkeys could avoid horse plague, and keeping monkeys in the stable could detect the spread of sick horses in time. Many stone pillars tied to horses in Weinan, Shaanxi Province are also engraved with stone monkeys.
Monkey and Hou are homophonic, and riding a monkey means immediately sealing Hou; The monkey hangs a seal on the maple tree, which means to seal the weather; A monkey riding on the back of another monkey means that generations will be sealed. Monkeys love peaches, which symbolize longevity. Folk paper-cutting also shows the auspicious and longevity pattern of monkey peach, which means longevity.
chicken (as food)
Han Shu Shi Zhuan summarizes the five virtues of chicken, crown and literature; Foot stroke far and near, martial arts also; Seeing that the enemy dares to do it is brave; Seeing food calls, righteousness is also; The vigil is timely, so is the letter. So chickens have the nickname of German birds.
Jade rabbit and the moon, the sun and the sun are often compared. The Soul of Huainanzi says that there are three-legged witches in Japan and China: Japanese witches, the sun and the golden crow. In the Ming Dynasty, Yang Shen said that there were golden roosters in Japan, but the sun belonged to the east but was located in the west. The moon belongs to the fur rabbits in the west but lives in the east, because the sun, the moon and Yin and Yang hide from each other. Li Bai's Tianmu Mountain rises in his dream, the sunny ocean is halfway, and the sacred rooster crows in space.
In ancient times, the timing was crude, and the cock crowed at sunrise. In The Book of Songs, the woman said that the chicken crowed, the literati said that they were ignorant, and the chicken was called Wang Chaoman, which advised you to go to court. Meng Changjun was trapped in Hangu Pass, and the door opened and closed like a cock crow. Zu Ti of the Eastern Jin Dynasty heard a cock crow in the middle of the night and said? This is not a bad voice? Because I danced at the court, I was angry and served my country.
Phoenix is the beautification and deification of pheasant. Shan Hai Jing describes a kind of bird, which looks like a chicken and is named Feng Di. In Guihai Bird, there is Wufeng, a rooster with neck hair. As the saying goes, chicken is often associated with phoenix, for example, phoenix is not as good as chicken.
dog
According to Hanshu, his dog's name is Pan Hu, and he got a girl whose head is the dog of General Wu. He ascended Nanshan with Pan Hu, gave birth to twelve men and women, and then prospered. "Looking for God" is expanded, and Tiger Pan is a golden bug that jumps out from the queen's ear. It is said that the Miao, She, Yao, Li, Dong, Zhuang and Wa nationalities in southwest China all regard Pan Hu as their ancestor. There is also a legend among ethnic minorities that dogs eat the seeds of five grains. Hani people think that God's daughter has brought food to the world, and has been demoted as a dog.
The ancients thought that the eclipse was swallowed by dogs. There is a saying in Ningbo that Tiangou eats the moon and sets off firecrackers underground. Huaihua people said that the Tengu was knocked out after eating the moon washbasin, and wanted to scare the Tengu away with sound. Tengu can also cause female infertility. The woman offered a sacrifice to Zhang Xian, who aimed at the sky with a slingshot in his hand. It is said that he photographed the dog.
Dogs are the gods of the wind. Oracle Bone Inscriptions was born in two dog; There are black and white dogs offering sacrifices to Fengshen in Shan Hai Jing. The ancients believed that dogs could keep out the wind. According to custom and justice, Fengbo is a god of worship, so Xu Bingri was sacrificed to the northwest. Dogs can also keep the wind. Mozi burns the skin of black dogs and keeps the wind gray.
pig
Pigs have the name of Wujin. During the patriarchal clan commune, pigs were a symbol of wealth, and there were 36 pig bones buried in Dahezhuang, Linxia. Tapirs are sacrifices of the lower class civilians. The tapir was made by him, buried in the room, and the home was a sacrifice, that is, the word "home".
A pig's fat head and big ears are symbols of good luck. Lao Zi's surname is Li Minger. "Shuowen" is full of clouds, and Duan Wang attaches great importance to his ears. Yuefu Long song: Immortals ride out of the cave with short hair and long ears. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei's ears drooped over his shoulders and his hands crossed on his knees.
People believe that pigs can foretell rain. There is a blank sheet of paper in Poem Xiaoya, which is full of waves. The moon leaves at the end and gives it a rainstorm. It is said in Miscellanies of the Wasted Capital that Lei Gong has scales on his head. Pig Bajie on the Journey to the West was originally a water god with a canopy. The marshal was named Guan Tianhe, and the governor and sailors called it the Constitutional Festival. Hua Gai was originally one of the four generals of the Taoist emperor Wei Zi in the North, which fully reflected the relationship between pig worship and sex and rain god.
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