In China, there is a tradition of "the brave fight hard", which, like the dragon and lion, can drive away the evil spirits here and bring joy and good luck.
Brave and fearless character
It's different from Kirin. It is a fierce beast, and it is very protective. It can ward off evil spirits in town houses.
The role of magic in geomantic omen can be explained as follows:
First, it has the function of warding off evil spirits. Putting brave and fearless animals that have been blossomed at home can make the home run well, strengthen auspiciousness, drive away evil spirits, have the effect of town house, become the patron saint of the home and keep the home safe.
Second, it has the function of seeking wealth and prospering wealth. It is not only helpful for partial wealth, but also helpful for positive wealth, so businessmen who do business should also put it in the company or at home.
Third, it has the function of dissolving the evil spirit of Huang Wuda, which is used to turn evil spirit into a town house and prosperous wealth, especially in terms of wealth.
One legend is that ...
Also known as Tianlu and exorcism. It is a kind of god beast in ancient myths and legends of China. It has the head of a dragon, the body of a horse and the feet of a lion. It is shaped like a lion, has a gray coat and can fly. Fierce and mighty, responsible for patrolling the sky to prevent monsters, plagues and diseases from disturbing the heaven. In ancient times, people often used bravery as the name of the army. It has a mouth without anus, can swallow everything without diarrhea, can make a fortune, can only enter but can't leave, and has special magical powers. Now many people in China wear jade, which is the reason.
In the Han Dynasty's Biography of the Western Regions, it was recorded that "the state-owned peach in Wugeshan was picked, and the lion peed on the cow". Meng Kang notes the sun: "Peach blossoms are like the tail of a deer in a day, and those with one horn are called Tianlu and those with two horns are called evil gods." Fighting evil is fighting.
However, after the change of dynasty, the shape of the brave is relatively unified, such as short wings, double horns, curly tail and mane, which are often connected with the chest or back, with prominent eyes and long teeth. Up to now, most common animals are single-horned long tails. Generally speaking, there are three substances that make up the image of animals:
First, metal-generally made of copper, because this metal is relatively cheap, and the color after polishing is close to gold.
Second, wood-some ancient big houses will use solid wood to carve the brave, and then put it on the beam to block the evil spirit.
Third, porcelain-made of different kinds of jade.
Mythical animals with different materials can be placed in auspicious positions of geomantic omen. Many geographers think that they have the function of promoting wealth, while in eight different directions, generally placing mythical animals made of copper will have a strong force of promoting wealth. In fact, it will be beneficial to positive wealth or partial wealth, so it has become popular in recent years; However, urging money by magic is always religion. Therefore, no matter whether the work belongs to the right or wrong line, the magic of urging money is the strongest when the mysterious diviner is rising or when the sun is on an auspicious day of the zodiac. However, pay attention to one thing. Criminals do not necessarily have the power to urge money. This is the characteristic of the spirit beast, and the magic made by jade has the strongest financial resources.
The origin of bravery
It is said that the brave dog is the nine princes of the Dragon King. Its staple food turned out to be gold and silver jewelry, which is naturally full of treasures. Compared with other three-legged toads, which are also auspicious animals, it is more important, so it has won the favor of the Jade Emperor and the Dragon King. But if you eat too much, you will always have diarrhea. So one day, you may be tempted to urinate everywhere, which makes the jade emperor angry, slap it down and end up with a spanking.
There is also a man and a woman. According to folklore, men represent wealth and women represent treasury. If you have money, you must have a vault to keep it. So most of the collections are a pair of collections, which can really make money. But if you want to wear it on your body, you'd better wear one to avoid fighting. These are legends, please refer to them!
I like sleeping lazily. I'd better pick him up every day, touch him and play with him, as if to wake him up and wealth will follow.
Another clever use of the brave is to put brave ornaments on your desk, which can drive away bad men and avoid unnecessary harassment for you.
According to ancient records, the brave is a kind of beast, and one of the five ancient auspicious beasts (dragon, phoenix, turtle and unicorn) is called lucky beast. The brave was once the totem of two ancient clans. Legend has it that he helped the Emperor Yanhuang to fight, and was named "Tianlu Beast", which means to be blessed by God. It is designed for the emperor to protect treasures, and it is also a symbol of the royal family. It is called "Dibao". It is also called "exorcism" because it specializes in eating wild animals to ward off evil spirits. China ancient geomantic scholars believe that it is an auspicious animal, which can turn disasters into good luck.
There are 26 shapes and 749 incarnations. It has a big mouth, a big belly, no anus, and only eats and doesn't pull, which symbolizes that it can get money from all directions, but it can only enter but can't go out. At the same time, it can ward off evil spirits and gather wealth for the master.
Ancient sages believed that fate was predestined, but it could be changed. Therefore, the people have a good wish of "being brave at the first touch, being brave at the second touch and being brave at the third touch".
Nine sons of the dragon
During the formation of the dragon image, many strange animal images appeared. Later, these monsters combined some characteristics of the dragon with the development of the image of the dragon, forming a different view that the dragon gave birth to nine sons. But what are the nine sons of the dragon, who ranks first and who ranks second, and there is no exact record. There are also various opinions among the people.
It is said that on one occasion, Emperor Xiao of the Ming Dynasty had a whim and asked Li Dongyang, a minister of rites who is famous for his erudition, "I heard that Dragon gave birth to nine sons. What's the name of Jiuzi? " Li Dongyang couldn't answer. After leaving North Korea, he pieced together a list. According to Li Dongyang's list, Long's nine sons are: Pufu, Chifeng, Yezi, Shutu, Kiss, Bulong, Sister-in-law and Prison Bull. But in folklore, there are far more than these dragons, and they are all said to be sons of dragons. In fact, the so-called dragon gave birth to nine children, not that the dragon happened to give birth to nine children. In the traditional culture of ancient China, nine is often used to express many things, which has a supreme position. Nine is an imaginary number and an expensive number, so it is used to describe the dragon son. If you have to choose nine sons, you should also choose the nine that have the greatest influence on the people. Li Dongyang is also anxious to make a job, and the list is not representative.
There is a saying that has a great influence on "nine sons born in a dragon":
The eldest son is a captive of cattle, likes music and stands at the head of the piano. Some precious headshots of Hu Qin are still engraved with the image of the dragon head, which is called "the dragon head Hu Qin".
The second son, Yazi, looks like a jackal with dragon horns, glaring, and his horns cling to his back. They like to kill and fight, and are carved on weapons, such as knife rings and handles or ceremonies, to play a deterrent role.
The third son laughed at the wind and looked like a dog. He narrowly escaped death once in his life. The beast in the corner of the temple is his portrait. These animals line up at the front of the vertical ridge. The animals are led by a "fairy" riding a bird, followed by dragons, phoenixes, lions, Tianma, seahorses, dragons, horses, bulls and other animals. Their placement has a strict hierarchy, and only the Hall of Supreme Harmony in the Forbidden City in Beijing can have all kinds, and the number of auxiliary halls should be reduced accordingly. Mocking the wind not only symbolizes auspiciousness, beauty and majesty, but also means to deter demons and eliminate disasters.
Zisi Plough, shaped like a dragon, but smaller than a dragon, likes music and singing, and is carved on the clock handle. It is said that I don't live by the sea all the time, and what I fear most at ordinary times is whales. Whenever there is a whale attack, he will scream when he is not old. Therefore, people put their own image on the clock and carve the long wood that hit the clock into the shape of a whale to make it loud and bright.
Suān ní, also known as Jin Heling. Sister-in-law used to be another name for a lion, so she looked like a lion, liked smoking, sat at the foot of an incense burner and was introduced to China with Buddhism. Because Buddha Sakyamuni is known as the "fearless lion", people naturally arrange him in the Buddha's seat, or carve him on an incense burner to enjoy the incense. In addition, sister-in-law is also the seat of Manjusri Bodhisattva, and there is also a temple dedicated to sister-in-law on Wutai Mountain in Manjusri Bodhisattva Dojo. Because the eldest sister-in-law is the fifth son of the dragon, the temple is called Wu Ye Temple, which has a great influence in the local area. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the dragon-shaped decoration in the middle of the collar of the stone lion or bronze lion is also an image of the lion entering the tiger's mouth, which makes the traditional China gate lion more powerful.
Liuzi, also known as XIXIA, looks like a turtle and likes to carry heavy loads. Legend has it that in ancient times, it often carried three mountains and five mountains to make waves. After being appeased by Yu Xia, he made many contributions to Yu Xia. After the success of water control, Yu Xia put the credit on his back, so most of the stone tablets in China were carried on his back. The dam is very similar to the tortoise, but there is still a difference when you look closely. Bazaar has a row of teeth, but the tortoise doesn't. The number and shape of nail plates under the dam and on the tortoise shell are also different. Bullies, also known as stone turtles, are symbols of longevity and good luck. It is always struggling to move forward with its head held high, its four feet desperately propped up, struggling to move forward, but unable to move.
Bian, also known as the Charter, looks like a tiger, is powerful and good at prison litigation, so people carve it on the prison door, so there is a folk saying that the tiger's head is fastened. He also said that it upholds justice and can distinguish right from wrong, so it is also placed on the top of the two cards that officials patrol and avoid in the lobby of the yamen to maintain the awe-inspiring atmosphere of the court.
Eight sons (XIX), like a dragon, are elegant and gentle, coiled around the top or both sides of the stone tablet.
The last child's kiss (chρ), also called tail kiss or kiss (chρ), is a fish-shaped dragon (some people say it looks like a lizard with its tail cut off). It likes to look around and is located at both ends of the temple ridge. In Buddhist scriptures, kissing is something under the rain god, which can put out fires. Therefore, putting it on both ends of the roof can also eliminate disasters and put out fires.
It can be found that in this statement, the eldest son of the prison cow and the fourth son of the prison like music, the third son of the wind and the third son of the kiss are located on the roof, and the sixth son and the eighth son are surrounded by stone tablets, which is suspected of repetition. It would be better if we take one of them and add some other common expressions:
Gluttony (tāotiè), shaped like a wolf and gluttonous, is located on the bronze ware, and is now called gluttonous pattern. Because it can drink water, it was also carved in the middle of the outside of the bridge in ancient times to prevent the bridge from being flooded. According to folklore, this monster is insatiable. After eating all the edible things, it finally ate its own body, leaving only one head, so it has the reputation of "having the body of Kubinashi".
Pachu, also known as Pteris vittata, looks like a fish rather than a fish. It is graceful and graceful and decorated at the top of the stone bridge railing.
Pepper map, like a snail, is quiet and docile, a little autistic, and hates others entering its nest, so people often carve its image on the head of the gate or portray it on the door panel.
The brave dog is called the ninth son of the dragon in South and Southeast Asia. It has a big mouth and no anus, but it can't get in or out, which is very popular among gamblers. Macau casino put a jade dragon, which means to eat all over the world, only to earn and not to lose.
"Like tiger, like son", dragons are so powerful that they can smoke and make waves. Being an idol of China people for thousands of years, his son is naturally not an idle generation. Dragons also have daughters, but they are not so famous. The heroine in "Pigs with Bright Spring" is the little dragon girl. The children of dragons are very strange, quite similar to those of Zeus in Greek mythology. But after all, Europeans are more open-minded than China. In their mythology, Zeus, the god of heaven, is a typical example of romance and even promiscuity. He turned into a horse for a while and a cow for a while to flirt with a good woman. The dragon in our country is polite, and at most it is a "two dragons playing with pearls". In the eyes of China people, the dragon is a symbol of authority and dignity. We call ourselves "descendants of the Chinese people" and "descendants of dragons".
Besides, in ancient China, it was another name for the giant panda.
Pingping Zan
Bai Juyi's work Zanping Zan (in the third year of Changqing, about 823 AD, the full text of the appendix is as follows)
Tapirs with trunk and rhinoceros were born in the southern valley. Sleeping on it can ward off evil spirits. For the head wind of an old patient, every time he sleeps, he often guards his head with a small screen. When you meet a painter, I order it to be written. Shan Hai Jing says that this beast eats iron and copper and nothing else. Be confused by sth. Hence for praise yue:
What a beast, born in the south. Its name is tapir, which is neither iron nor food. In ancient times, people were loyal. Conquer fatwa, since the son of heaven. Sword and halberd are seldom used, and copper and iron envy them. When the time is right, eat all day. From generation to generation, the king has different laws. Iron is a soldier and copper is a Buddha. There are more and more Buddha statues and weapons. Isn't the other mountain (sound: production)? What valley is it? It's a waste of money, but there is nothing left. Sadness is sadness, nothing but grace. Oh! The sorrow of bandits is only the sorrow of time!
The most popular animal recently is the panda. In ancient China, it was also called tapir. Literati describe quite a lot (note: 908 volumes of Taiping Yu Lan, Department of Animals 20. There are details), but the most interesting and special is Bai Juyi's Screen Praise. The reason for the article is this: Bai Juyi had a headache and asked a painter to draw a panda on the screen. Why? Because it "sleeps on the plague and tries to ward off evil spirits." Fur keeps warm and image ward off evil spirits. Sure enough, since then, my head has never been blown again, so I wrote this "screen praise" as a souvenir.
As for the main idea: pandas live on iron. Since ancient times, emperors have had a way, with few weapons and little consumption of copper and iron. Panda can't eat too fast in a day! Later, a lot of copper and iron were cast into weapons and made into Buddha statues. Pandas will have to starve. Bai Juyi expressed sympathy for this lovely animal.
In fact, there is a hint between Bai Juyi's lines: first, the description of "eating iron" in Shan Hai Jing may not be completely credible, so there is the word "confused". In addition, the use of copper and iron is also quite critical, with frequent wars and more weapons. People are worried that the number of Buddha statues will increase. However, there is no solution. The emperor can love the people like a son, not fight lightly. Why is there a shortage of copper and iron?
Generally speaking, jade or jadeite is the best
The stone lion often mentioned by the two men in front of the bank is actually a lion, not a lion as people think.