Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional customs - People say that the "Four Immortals" are hedgehogs, foxes, snakes and weasels, but what are the "Four Little Immortals"? I think there are scorpions, right?

People say that the "Four Immortals" are hedgehogs, foxes, snakes and weasels, but what are the "Four Little Immortals"? I think there are scorpions, right?

No scorpion, the four little fairy is: wolf, badger, lynx, mouse (weasel).

We all know hedgehogs, foxes, snakes and weasels . The fox is the Fox Immortal (Hu Family), the weasel is the Yellow Immortal (Yellow Family), the hedgehog is the White Immortal (White Family), and the snake is the Chang Immortal or Willow Immortal (Chang Family).

These immortal families are all ranked and have generations. They usually have the word pan, as long as you know the name. Look at what the word pan is. Then you can know the seniority in the immortal family. Fox stands for affection; weasel stands for career; hedgehog stands for wealth and snake stands for peace.

Expanded:

People's worship of the four animals, the Fox Immortal, Yellow Immortal and White Immortal, Liu Xian, the earliest origins of which can perhaps be traced back to ancient times, are generally highly revered in folklore and are worshipped in many homes for good fortune.

In traditional Han Chinese culture, the four immortals have always been a good and evil image (here to explain, people usually call, fox, is two animals, fox and beaver are different, just people called used to), in ancient Han Chinese mythology, the four immortals through cultivation, guidance, or absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon or the popularity of the human body to become human form.