Cultural knowledge of nine

1. Introduce stories or cultural knowledge related to nine a

The dragon has nine sons

Chi Chi: also known as scops owl, scops owl, good looking, and so on. Shaped like a four-legged snake with its tail cut off, this dragon's son is good at looking around at dangerous places and also likes to swallow fire. Legend has it that when Emperor Wu of Han built Pak Leung Hall, someone said that there is a fish in the sea, gnarled tail like a scops owl, also known as the harrier eagle, can be used to spray waves rain, can be used to averse to fire, and then molded its image in the corner of the temple, the ridge of the temple, on top of the roof.

Mythical Geibi: also known as Geibi, Lingibi. Mythical Geibi is an alias for lion, so it is shaped like a lion, good fireworks, and good to sit. It can be seen on the Buddha seat and incense burner in the temple. The lion, an animal that dares to eat even tigers and leopards and has a dignified appearance, was introduced to China with Buddhism. Because Buddha Shakyamuni has "fearless lion" metaphor, people will be arranged as a natural Buddha's seat, or carved on the incense burner to let it enjoy the incense.

Jairus: looks like a jackal, good fishy kill. Often carved on the hilt of the sword scabbard. Jair is the original meaning of angry eyes, the so-called "a meal of virtue must be paid, Jair's grudge must be avenged. The revenge is not free from fishy kill, so, this look like a jackal like the Dragon appears in the hilt of the scabbard is very natural.

Pepper figure: shaped like a snail clam, good closed mouth, so people often carve its image in the door of the store head, or carved on the door plate. When the snail clam encounters foreign invasion, it always closes the mouth of the shell tightly. People will be used on the door, probably to take it can be tightly closed meaning, in order to seek safety.

Jiu Niu: The shape of a small yellow dragon with scales and horns, good at music. The musical cells of the dragon, not only in the Han Chinese huqin, the Yi dragon head Yueqin, the Bai people's three-stringed zither, as well as some Tibetan musical instruments on the image of its head and mouth.

Pujuan: shaped like a dragon but smaller than a dragon, good song. It is said that Pujuan lives by the sea and is usually most afraid of whales. Whenever the whales attacked, Pujuan would scream more than once. So, people will put its image on the bell, and will hit the bell of the long wood carved into a whale-like, to hit the bell, seeking its sound big and bright.

Taotie: shaped like a wolf, good food. Bell tripod Yi more carved on the shape of its head as a decoration. Because Taotie is a particularly gluttonous beast of legend, people will be greedy for food and even greedy for property people called Taotie. Taotie also appeared on Shang and Zhou bronzes as a patterned animal face decoration, called taotie pattern.

Quodid: also known as ***. Looks like a tiger, powerful, and good prison litigation, people will be carved and cast in the prison door. Tiger is a fierce beast, quodid is used to enhance the majesty of the prison, so that criminals are afraid.

3 Bei, corpse shell: also known as the tortoise pedestal. Shaped like a turtle, good load. Long years of carrying a stone tablet. People in the temple courtyard ancestral hall, everywhere you can see this Hercules. It is said that touching it can bring good fortune.

Nine sons of the dragon refers to the nine sons of the dragon, nine sons are not into the dragon, each different. The so-called "nine sons of the dragon", not the dragon happened to have nine sons. Traditional Chinese culture, to nine to indicate that very much, have the supreme status, nine is an imaginary number, but also the number of noble, so used to describe the dragon son. Dragons have nine sons of this statement has a long history, but exactly which nine animals has not been said, until the Ming Dynasty appeared a variety of statements.

One of the sayings "the dragon has nine sons" comes from Li Dongyang's Huailutang ji (怀麓堂集), which states that the nine sons of the dragon are:

The oldest one is Prisoner of the Bull (qiúniú)

The second one is Jairus (yázì)

The third one is Mocking Wind (cháofēng)

The fourth one is Puyun (pào), which is the most powerful animal in the world, and is used to describe the dragon's sons.

The fourth one is Púláo (púláo)

The fifth one is Suānní (suānní)

The sixth one is Bìxì (bìxì)

The seventh one is Quodid (bì'àn)

The eighth one is Fùxì (fùxì)

The ninth one is chi鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪鈪?

Another way of saying it is.

The oldest one, Bi Xi (bìxì)

The second one, chi dragons/ scops owls (chīwěn/chīwěi)

The third one, Pu Jiao (púláo)

The fourth one, quodid (bì'àn)

The fifth one, Taotie (tāotiè)

The sixth one, Bug Buster (虫 八)(虫夏)(bāxià)/p>

The seventh one, Jairi (yáotiè), is a person of the same name as the first one. 睚眦（yázì）

老八狻猊（suānnní）

老九椒图（jiāotú）

Some accounts also include chi dragons, unicorns, Chao tian roars (犼), and braves in the list of dragon sons.

2. China's "nine" of the cultural meaning

In China, the reason why people see "nine" as their own mind "heavenly number" and the most magical color of the number, because "nine" the number of the symbolism (symbolicmeaning), in our country can be said to be the longest history, and the most extensive. The reason is that the symbolism of the number "nine" (symbolicmeaning), in our country, can be said to have the longest history and the most extensive.

"Nine" as the number is different from the general number, in ancient China is considered a mysterious number, it is initially a dragon (or snake) totem of the text, and then evolved "sacred" meaning, so the ancient Chinese emperors in order to express their sacred power for the gods to give God's gift, they tried to put themselves with "nine" In order to express their sacred power as a gift from God, the ancient Chinese emperors tried their best to associate themselves with "nine". Such as the sky is divided into nine layers, extremely high, heavenly evidence / birth day for the first nine days of the first month, the son of heavenly sacrifice nine times a year.

What is more interesting is that even the palace buildings are related to "nine". For example, there are nine gates in Beijing, and the Tiananmen Square citadel has a face of nine questions, and the gates are decorated with nine nails (i.e., nine horizontal and vertical rows of nails for each gate).

The Chinese vocabulary also often uses the word "nine" to describe the titles of emperors and generals, such as "Imperial Throne"; and "Nine Thousand Years Old" for princes who are second only to the emperor.

3.~Cultural Knowledge~

The Five Mountains are the product of the combination of ancient mountain gods worship, the concept of the five elements and the Emperor's hunting tours and sealing, and then inherited by Taoism, is regarded as the famous mountains of Taoism, they are:

East Yue Taishan Mountain (1532.7 meters), is located in the city of Tai'an in Shandong Province.

West Yue Huashan (2154.9 meters), located in Huayin City, Shaanxi Province.

Nanyue Hengshan (1300.2 meters), located in Nanyue District, Hengyang City, Hunan Province.

North Yue Hengshan (2016.1 meters), located in Hunyuan County, Shanxi.

Zhongyue Songshan (1491.7 meters), located in Dengfeng City, Henan Province.

Dongyue Taishan is the first of the Five Mountains is true, Chinese dynasties have 72 emperors to Taishan Zen.

Dongyue Mountain, the male of Mount Taishan, the danger of Mount Huashan, Mount Hengshan, the ghost of Mount Everest, the steepness of Songshan, Mount Hengyeong, has long been known in the world.

It is often said that the return of the five mountains do not see the mountain, there are also "Mount Hengshan, such as line, Mount Tai, such as sitting, Mount Huashan, such as standing, Mount Song, such as lying, only the South Mountain alone, such as the fly," the saying.

Nine states, different times have different versions of state names, generally for the "Yugong" in Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou, Liangzhou, Yongzhou. Later, there were twelve states, i.e., Jizhou was divided from Jizhou, Yingzhou was divided from Qingzhou, and Liangzhou was divided from Yongzhou. Generally speaking, "Jiuzhou" refers to China in general. For example, "The nine states are full of wind and thunder, but the ten thousand horses are all mute, which is sad. （

The four books, also known as the four books, are the collective name of the Analects of Confucius, the Mencius, the University, and the Meanwhile.

Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty took the Book of Rites in the Medieval Times, the University of the two articles alone into a book, and the record of Confucius' words and deeds of the Analects of Confucius, the record of Mencius' words and deeds of the Mencius for the "four books". The four books additions and deletions, including Confucius' disciples and re-transmission of disciples, Mencius, Cheng Zi, Zhu Xi, etc., its compilation time interval of 1,800 years.

After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the University of the Meanwhile became the official school textbooks and compulsory reading for the imperial examinations, which had a great impact on ancient education.

"Poetry" gentle and generous, "book" sparse notice far, wide and easy to Liang, "Yi" clean and quiet and subtle, "Rites" respectful, thrifty and dignified; "Spring and Autumn" belongs to the word than things. Chinese medicine refers to the meridians of the liver, heart, spleen, lungs and kidneys.

3, the six arts The six arts refer to six skills: ritual, music, archery, imperialism, calligraphy, and mathematics. The aristocratic education system of China's Zhou Dynasty, which began in 1046 B.C. in the Zhou Dynasty, required students to master the six basic talents in the Zhou king's official school: rituals, music, archery, the Imperial Court, the book, and mathematics.

From the "Zhou Li - Paul's": "Raise the state son to the road, is to teach the six arts: one said that the five rituals, two said that the six music, three said that the five shooting, four said that the five imperial, five said that the six books, six said that the nine numbers." This is the said "through the five through six arts" of the "six arts".

4, couplets Couplets, one of China's traditional culture, also known as couplets or pairs, is written on paper, cloth or carved in bamboo, wood, columns on the pair of statements. Couplet is a unique art form of the Chinese language with its neatly written couplets and harmonized levels and tones.

Couplets are traditional Chinese cultural treasures.

The riddle is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese working people, is a comprehensive art of traditional Chinese culture. As early as in the Xia Dynasty, there was a kind of song that described something with hints.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, this kind of ballad developed and evolved into "thin rhetoric" (also known as "cryptic language"). At that time, due to the disputes among the states, many visitors often used "cryptic words" to express their opinions, so that the king could be inspired by them.

"State language - Jin language" recorded: "There are Qin guests thin speech in the court, the doctor can not be right." It can be seen that at that time these "thin rhetoric" and "cryptic language", is the prototype of China's lantern riddles.

Until the Southern Song literati Baozhao made "well", "turtle", "soil" three riddles, and "three riddles" in his collection of poems, there is a "riddle" word. The word "riddle" is called.