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What are the four great beasts?

1, the four famous animals are: Kirin, Brave, Bai Ze and Qingming Bird.

2. Kirin is an auspicious animal in ancient China mythology. Ruiying pictures show that Kirin has sheep's head and wolf's hoof. Its head is round, its body is colored and its height is about 2 meters. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi X" records that Kirin looks like a musk deer, and its tail looks like a dragon's tail, with a long forest and a slope. The man's name is Qi and the woman's name is Lin. People think that wherever Kirin haunts, there must be auspicious signs.

Raccoons are fierce beasts in folk myths and legends. It has six feet, looks like a tiger and a leopard, looks like a dragon from beginning to end, and its color is also gold and emerald. It has a pair of wings on its shoulders, but it can't be displayed. It has a horn on its head and leans back. In the folk, as a beast, it is thought that it has a mouth but no anus, can swallow everything without venting, can only get in and out of food, and can make a fortune.

4. Bai Ze is also an auspicious beast in ancient mythology. It is said that "the king has virtue" can drive away all evil spirits in the world, so it has the basic symbolic significance of "driving away evil spirits and receiving happiness". In appearance, The History of Yuan Dynasty recorded that Bai Ze's beast and tiger had horns and a dragon body. Ming Ji Li records that Bai Ze is a dragon with green hair and horns, flying on all fours.

The two-eyed bird is a divine bird in ancient mythology. It looks like a chicken and sings like a phoenix. This bird has two eyes in both eyes, so it is called a double-eyed bird. According to legend, Shun Di was born of a two-eyed bird. In the folk custom of Chinese New Year, there is a habit of sticking bird paintings on doors and windows to avoid evil spirits, monsters and other disasters.