The Eight Totems of the Chinese Nation

The eight totems of the Chinese people are the dragon, whale, snake, tiger, giant lucid, eagle, red carp and white shark.

Totem worship is the earliest phenomenon of religious belief in primitive human society.

Human ancestors believe that each nation has a kinship or other special relationship with certain animals, plants or no living things, which is the totem of the nation, worship, mark.

In the history of the development of the Chinese nation, dragons, phoenixes, snakes, deer, birds, tigers, unicorns and other animals have been used as totem worship. This long-established folklore, accumulated in the Zhengning incense bag, giving Zhengning incense bag a long history and deep cultural color.

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Chinese eagle as a clan totem, the Yellow Emperor's army used the eagle as a flag

The eagle is the king of birds, the overlord of the air. The culture, art and spirit of the eagle have been accumulated in traditional Chinese culture for thousands of years and have formed a characteristic Chinese eagle culture.

The image of the eagle is not only the totem and emblem of many ethnic groups in the north, but also the symbol of the god of war and the sign of the hero. Throughout the ages, writers and writers have also sent their love to the eagle, expressed their feelings and aspirations through the eagle, giving the eagle a rich and profound ideological and cultural connotations.

In folk culture, the eagle is also a popular good-luck charm, with the "town house eagle" reputation.

Traditional Chinese Mascot - Eagle

The eagle is the king of birds and the master of the air. In ancient China, it is the totem worshipped by the northern peoples; in the Chinese land, the eagle is the symbol of the god of war, the sign of the hero.

According to modern zoological classification, the eagle is a group in the falconiform order Eagleidae, a carnivorous raptor, including the hawk and sparrowhawk.

Broadly speaking, eagles also include other birds, such as kites, harriers, etc. The most common eagles in China are the sparrowhawk, sparrowhawk and pinehawk. But in ancient literature, often the larger birds in the falcon family and owl family birds (such as owls) are also known as eagles.

The eagle god worship on the northern peoples of China's influence is extremely far-reaching. Eagle as a totem symbol, once appeared in the Qin and Han Dynasties Xiongnu king's gold crown. The "Chunshui Jade" of the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties is a continuation of this eagle culture.

The princes and nobles of the Khitan, Jurchen and Mongol minorities, which are located in the same region as the Red Mountain culture, have always retained the tradition of eagle hunting.

Whenever spring arrives, they ride their horses and carry a kind of falcon slightly larger than a pigeon on their arms, called the "Haidongqing" to hunt swans at the water's edge.

The Yuan dynasty "spring water jade" works "Haidongqing goose" pendant, it is this theme, showing a small victory in the martial spirit. Nurhachu, the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty, also took the eagle as the totem of the nation.

Till today, living in the northern grasslands of Mongolia herders will still be the eagle is still regarded as a god.

The Yellow Emperor's army used the eagle as a flag

The cultures of different regions are naturally different. The northern peoples of China regarded the eagle as a divine object and used it as their clan emblem and totem. In the central plains, on the other hand, the eagle is a symbol of invincibility.

And, with the development of history, people injected more and more cultural connotations and auspicious symbols on the eagle, forming our unique eagle culture.

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