Phoenix is a god

Phoenix (Chinese phoenix/phoenix), also known as Zhu Bird, Dan Bird, Fire Bird, mythical bird, etc., in Western mythology, also known as the Fire Bird, the bird of immortality, the image is generally a flamingo with a long tail, and is surrounded by fire, is presumed to be a mythological processing of the flamingo, evolved. Myths say that every time the phoenix dies, it will be surrounded by fire, and then it is reborn in the fire, and get more powerful than before, called "Phoenix Nirvana". This is called the "Phoenix Nirvana". This is a cycle, the phoenix has gained eternal life, so it has the name of "immortal bird". It is a legendary bird of paradise, one of the four spirits and the king of all birds. The Dai Dai Li Yi Ben Ming (The Rites of Dai Dai) says, "The Phoenix is the longest of the 360 feathered insects." "Mao Shi Lu Shu Guang Yao" interpretation of the cloud: "The dragon rides the clouds, the phoenix rides the wind, ...... the birds lay down also." It and the dragon together constitute the dragon and phoenix culture, is an extremely important part of traditional Chinese culture.

The phoenix, like the unicorn, is the collective name of male and female, the male is the phoenix, the female is the phoenix, and its general name is the phoenix. The phoenix flies together and is a symbol of auspiciousness and harmony. It is the same as the image of the dragon, the further the more complex, with the Hong head, Lin hip, snake neck, fish tail, dragon pattern, turtle body, swallow's chin, chicken's mouth. Since ancient times the phoenix has become an important part of the Chinese culture.

Phoenix Appearance

According to Guo Pu's note in "Er Ya - Interpretation of Birds", the phoenix is characterized by: "chicken head, swallow's jaw, snake's neck, tortoise's back, fish's tail, five-colored, and six-foot-high". "Out of the Oriental gentleman's country, soaring beyond the four seas, over the Kunlun, drink the pillar, Maundy weak water, not sleep in the wind cave, see the world peace." The book is a great example of the "Mountain and Sea Canon". The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Tu Zan" said there are five kinds of like the word pattern: "the first text is said to be moral, the wing text is said to be smooth, the back text is said to be righteousness, the belly text is said to be faith, the膺 text is said to be benevolence."

Phoenix

According to extant literature inferred: the phoenix sound like xiao sheng, sound like bells and drums. The male phoenix is said to be namely namely, the female is said to be foot foot, the male and female and the song is said to be clanging.

Overview of the origin of the phoenix

The origin of the phoenix in the Neolithic era, primitive society, a lot of bird patterns on the colored pottery is the prototype of the phoenix, about 6,700 years ago in Zhejiang Yuyao Hemudu culture unearthed, in the ivory bone on the carved image of the double bird pattern, which should be the earliest record of the ancient phoenix double bird pattern.

According to myths and legends, the phoenix evolved from the bird totem of the Yin tribe in the east.

Symbol of the phoenix

The phoenix is a bird of paradise in people's minds, a symbol of peace in the world. The ancients believed that when there was peace and prosperity, the phoenix would fly. Phoenix and its oracle bone and the wind of the same oracle bone character, that is, on behalf of the omnipresence of the wind, and the spiritual power of the meaning of the phoenix that is the word for the emperor, for the highest and greatest meaning.

The phoenix is also a symbol of Chinese imperial power, often used together with the dragon, the phoenix is subordinate to the dragon, used for the queen and concubines, the dragon and phoenix are the most Chinese characteristics of the totem. There is also a great deal of similar modeling in folk art. The phoenix also represents the yin, although the phoenix is also divided into male and female, and is more generally regarded as feminine. "Phoenix" and "phoenix" are commonly used in female names.

The phoenix is considered to be the most honorable of all birds, the king of birds (although she is fictional), and there is a saying that "a hundred birds face the phoenix".

According to the yin and yang five elements, the phoenix is red in color, and the five elements belong to fire, which is the image of the Zhu bird of the seven southern lodges. It is also one of the four spirits referred to in Chinese folklore (Rites of Passage, dragon, phoenix, unicorn and tortoise).

In the Chinese mindset, the "phoenix" has been the most important magical object of good fortune since ancient times, and it is said that the phoenix can regenerate from fire, symbolizing goodness, talent and good fortune.

●The phoenix appeared in the totem at a very early stage and was the symbol of the Yin nation. In the Book of Songs, it is said that "the bird of heaven, the Xuanbird, descended to give birth to the Shang". The mother of the founder of Yin, Qi, was bathing in a river when a Xuanbird flew by and dropped an egg, which was swallowed by Qi, and thus she became pregnant and gave birth to Qi. When he grew up, he assisted Yu in ruling the water, and was granted the surname Zi and honored as King Xuan. From then on, there was the Shang people, and the Yin people adopted the Xuanbird as the totem of their clan. The image of the bird was similar to that of a swallow, but as the clans and tribes continued to develop and merge, the bird gradually evolved into a phoenix with a cock's crown, a crane's foot and a peacock's tail.

●The image of the phoenix before people's eyes today is the crystallization of thousands of years of gradual evolution. It highly summarizes the history of the formation, integration and development of the Chinese nation, and plays an important role in shaping and cultivating the national character, which in itself condenses and symbolizes the great spirit of the Chinese nation of upward mobility, strength and resilience.

●Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, when he traveled to the south of Chu, the hermit of Chu, Jieyu, who saw Confucius on the road, used "phoenix virtue" as a metaphor for the world's bad customs, leaving behind the lament "phoenix, phoenix, what virtue is declining"; in the poetry of Chu poet Qu Yuan, the phoenix is frequently used as a symbolic image to symbolize the Chinese people's development. In the poems of the Chu poet Qu Yuan, the phoenix is frequently used as a symbolic image to refer to a virtuous person. The way of thinking of "comparing virtue with phoenix" and "comparing talent with phoenix" also reflects the importance that the Chinese nation attaches to the cultivation of virtue and talent. In the unearthed artifacts of Chu, whether it is the phoenix embroidered on the silk fabrics, or the phoenix painted on the lacquer and wood, or the phoenix in the sculpture, its basic feature is to lead the neck to sing long and lift the wings to rush to the sky, which reflects a sense of upward movement and positive and enterprising value orientation.

●There is the myth of the Phoenix Nirvana in the West, and the legend of the fire phoenix in China. The myths and legends of China and the West have a ****same feature, that is, the phoenix symbolizes life, vitality and passion.

Archaeology of the phoenix

The phoenix is a mythical bird in Chinese mythology, and later became a symbol of the spirit of the Chinese nation together with the dragon. But its creation has always been a mystery. In recent years in Hongjiang City, Hunan Province, high temple cultural sites unearthed on a white pot, stamped with China's oldest phoenix pattern, 7,800 years ago. This discovery to unravel the mystery of the phoenix "birth" provides exceptionally valuable physical information, shocked the archaeological community.

The discovery of China's oldest phoenix pattern in Hunan is not by chance, Hunan is the hometown of China's rice culture, and the birth of the phoenix and the ancient rice culture is closely related to, it can be said, it was originally a product of rice culture. The 7,000-year-old phoenix pattern unearthed at the Datang site in Changsha has a phoenix bird holding seedlings in its mouth.

A large number of documents show that in the primitive era, the rice farmers in southern China used the "bird" as their totem. This has been recognized by the academic community. Last year, I found in Xiangzhong, a Ming dynasty Wanli 44 years of scrolls, painted above the naked five rampant, the god of thunder, is a bird head and body, holding a bird in the hand. This image of man and bird is a typical product of bird totem worship - this shows that 390 years ago, the concept of bird totem worship is still very prominent in Hunan folk. To this day, the wind and rain bridge in Hunan minority areas, but also sculpted bird, which can also be seen as a cultural legacy of bird totem worship.

The primitive human beings as a totem of the bird, the ancient name of the "Dan bird", also known as "Yang bird", "luan bird", and the origin of rice culture is closely related. Gleanings" Volume 1 says: "(Emperor Yan Di) when the Dan sparrow nine ears of grain, which fell to the ground, the emperor is picked up to plant in the field, eaters old and not die." The so-called "Dan sparrow", "Yang bird", "luan bird", is the prototype of the phoenix god bird. "Guangya" cloud: "Luan bird, phoenix emperor genus also."

Because the phoenix culture is y rooted in the rice culture, "and" has become the basic characteristics of the image of the phoenix, "Classic of the Mountains and Seas - Nanshan Jing" cloud: "It is a bird, food and drink, natural, self-singing and dancing, the world is at peace with those who see it." Therefore, the phoenix in folklore since ancient times has represented and beauty, harmony and good luck.

"Phoenix" image itself is a product of the concept of harmony. On the one hand, it is a "two-in-one" unity of opposites, the male for the phoenix, the female for the phoenix, said the yin and yang and harmony, harmony and auspiciousness; on the other hand, it is a diversity and harmony, is in the bird totem on the basis of fusion of primitive times of a number of different clans of the worship of the characteristics of the natural world, set the beauty of the great and become. For example, "Shuowen" depicts the image of the phoenix in this way: "The image of the phoenix is also, before the Hong Lin, the stork Pelteobagus duck cheeks, the dragon and turtle back, Yanjiao chicken pecking, and the five colors are ready to lift."

In Chinese culture, the image of the phoenix represents not only the "harmony" of natural objects, but also the "harmony" of human society. The five colors of the phoenix were later regarded as the symbols of the five ethics of "virtue, righteousness, courtesy, benevolence, and faith" that sustained the harmony and stability of ancient societies. For example, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas - South Mountain Classic" said: "(Phoenix) the first text is said to be moral, wing text is said to be righteousness, back text is said to be polite, the膺 text is said to be benevolence, abdominal text is said to be faith". The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Hai Nei Jing" also said: "There is a luan bird since the song, the phoenix bird since the dance. Phoenix bird first text is said to be moral, wing text is said to be smooth, Ying text is said to be benevolent, back text is said to be righteous, see the world and."

In ancient times, the phoenix was also used to refer to virtuous people. Confucius, the great sage who advocated "peace is precious," was the first person in Chinese history to be honored as a "phoenix. Ancient thinker Laozi once used the phoenix as a metaphor for Confucius, according to "Zhuangzi": "Laozi saw Confucius from the disciples of five people, asked: 'Who is the former? The answer was: 'Zi Lu for courage. Next Zigong for wisdom, Zengzi for filial piety, Yan Hui for benevolence, and Zi Zhang for martial arts.' Laozi sighed: 'I heard that there is a bird in the south, its name is phoenix,...... The text of the phoenix bird is Dai Sheng Ying Ren, Right Wisdom and Left Virtue.'" It can be said that the concept of harmony in phoenix culture covers all aspects of nature and society. This "harmony" characteristic of the phoenix image is also often used in idioms about the phoenix. For example:

1, "luanfeng and singing". "Luanfeng Harmonization" not only indicates that the natural luan bird and the phoenix correspondingly chirping, the sound of harmony; also often used to indicate that the husband and wife have a harmonious relationship.

2, "birds towards the phoenix". "A hundred birds facing the phoenix" not only symbolizes the harmonious order of nature; in the old days, it also refers to the ruler of the world's dependence on the holy and bright, which is a metaphor for the high esteem of the people, symbolizing the harmony of the whole society.

3, "Danfeng Chaoyang". "Danfeng Chaoyangyang" is not only an image reflecting the harmonious relationship between the bird and the sun in the primitive agricultural era; it was also used in ancient times to express the harmony between the ruler and the ministers. For example, Wang Shizhen's "Record of the Sounding of the Phoenix" says: "The eight admonished ministers before and after the same heart, the sunrise and the phoenix are sounding at the same time."

The ancient rice culture of Hunan has produced such a perfect harmony of cultural symbols in Chinese folklore, which is the third charm of the harmony of Hunan culture.

Totem of Chu Culture

The Chu people's respect for the phoenix was derived from the primitive beliefs of their distant ancestor who worshipped the sun and the phoenix, and it has a history of more than 7,000 years of traceable artifacts. Chu people's ancestor Zhu Rong is the god of fire and thunder. Han Dynasty "White Tiger" said, Zhu Rong "its essence for the bird, away from the luan." The Bian Crow - Jiang Bird" note said: "Phoenix genus also". Visible, Zhu Rong is also the embodiment of the phoenix. Chu cultural relics of the existence of a large number of human head snake body and human head bird body pattern shows that it is the ancestors of the Chu state to "the human heart camp construction of the image" experienced the worship of birds, which opened our country's legendary culture "dragon and phoenix" cultural origins of the goblet. From the totem worship in the clan system reflected the prominent features of the period, the phoenix for the ancestors of the Chu people, so the Chu people as the clan's totem to worship, respect and love is inevitable.

The phoenix is not only a bird of God, but also a symbol of the dignity of the Chu clan, Chu. Chu people respect the influence of the phoenix will penetrate into various fields. Such as in the Chu cultural relics, phoenix images, embroidered images and statues are numerous, the Chu people clothes embroidery pattern is also to phoenix as the main content. In addition, there are "phoenix bird double chain ring", "tiger seat phoenix frame drum", "phoenix, dragon and tiger embroidery Luo Zen clothes", etc., the phoenix pattern of Chu painting can be described as a variety of forms, there is nothing strange.

Phoenix Huayun

In ancient times, the phoenix is a symbol of honor, noble, virtuous, containing a beautiful and different from the meaning of the ordinary, people out of the desire and pursuit of beautiful things, some of the mountains and rivers of the towns and cities to the "phoenix" name.

According to the relevant information, on the mainland of China, there are now 42 mountains called the Phoenix Mountains. The origin of their names, or because of its shape like flying, like a crouching bird; or because of ancient myths, folklore and named. This renaming of the wide, is rare, can be said to be "more than nine state Phoenix", these Phoenix Hill distribution of nearly 20 provinces, throughout the country:

Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, Fengcheng Manchu Autonomous County

Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Rui'an County

Henghuangdong County, Hunan Province, Phoenix County, Qiyang County, Pingjiang County

Yan'an County, Tongguan County, Ankang County, Shaanxi Province

Chaozhou City, Zengcheng City, Guangdong Province

Nandan Tian'e, Hechi, Yishan, four counties and cities of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Pengshui Miao Tujia Autonomous County and Xiushan Tujia Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing Municipality

Chengdu City, Xichong County and Dazhou, Sichuan Province

Hebei Province Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County, Tangshan County

Jingshan County, Jiayu County, Daye County, Xuanhua City, Hubei Province

Songjiang District, Shanghai City

Wujin County and Jiangning County, Jiangsu Province

Sha County, Fujian Province

Xinye County, Henan Province

Lanping Bai Pumi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province

Fengyang County, Anhui Province

Luobei County, Heilongjiang Province

Fengcheng City, Xiushui County, Yushan County, Jiangxi Province

Fenggang County, Guizhou Province

Longde County, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and so on.

The Cultural Positioning of the Phoenix

The Chinese people's concept of good luck has a long history and expresses people's emotional desire to pursue happiness and joy, and to aspire for harmony and beauty. The Chinese people have endowed the auspicious objects with moral and aesthetic meanings, and through artistic processing, made them y imprinted with the national culture. Specifically, China's worship culture, the most influential for the four animal spirits dragon, phoenix, tortoise, Lin. The phoenix, the mythical animal and king of birds, can be regenerated in fire, and together with the dragon, it constitutes the culture of dragon and phoenix. Just as the dragon was the symbol of feudal emperors, the phoenix became the talisman of consorts. The image of the phoenix appears widely in Chinese culture, and through artistic processing, the phoenix has been imbued with a lot of romanticism. The phoenix is one of the four spirits of ancient Chinese animals and has had an irreplaceable influence in Chinese cultural history.

The prototype of the phoenix

The zoological prototype of the phoenix has many different opinions and is generally considered to be a hybrid. According to the evidence and arguments cited in the book "Talking about Dragons and Winds" published by He Xin, a scholar of the People's Republic of China, in 1987 and 2004, the archetypal animal of the dragon is a large reptile, mainly crocodiles and giant lizards, and the archetypal animal of the phoenix is a large bird, mainly a large ostrich. Three generations ago, China's ancient land climate is warm and humid, these two types of animals in mainland China, the existence of many Paleolithic Neolithic sites have crocodile and ostrich fossil ostrich eggshell fossils found.

Allusions to the phoenix

1. Wutong perched phoenix

Wutong is the king of the trees, rumored to be a spiritual tree, can know the time know the order. The Wenshi Lu: "Wutong hundred birds dare not perch, stop avoiding the phoenix also". As the king of all birds, the phoenix embraces the universe and does not perch on the sycamore. Wei book - Wang Fo biography "" phoenix is not wutong not perch " phoenix choose wood and perch, and then the metaphor of the virtuous talent to choose the Lord and rely on; phoenix of this gentleman style in Jiang Ziya, Zhuge Liang can also find shadows, they did not meet the "wutong tree" before they would rather be an ordinary The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money and to get a good deal of money.

2.get the image of the phoenix

Legend has it that the phoenix will be regenerated after its death, and it is said that it can know the rise and fall of the world's rule and disorder, and it is the best embodiment of the king's benevolence and governance in the history of our country, and it is the barometer of the rise and fall of the chaotic world, and it has become the theological and political "ambassadors", and the ancients had set out the five grades to mark the five kinds of Phoenix's behavior and behavior on the politics. The ancient people had divided the phoenix into five classes, and used the five behaviors of the phoenix to mark the degree of political clarity, so all the emperors in the past generations took the "phoenix singing in the morning sun" and "a hundred birds facing the phoenix" as the symbol of peace in the world. In Southern Qi, Xie Zhao wrote "Ten Songs of Yongming Music": "The colorful phoenix chirps in the morning sun, and the crane dances in the morning sky; this is the Yongming song of Rui, and it will be the whole emperor for a thousand years."

3. Phoenix

When Sima Xiangru, a writer of Western Han Dynasty, was in poverty, he went to Linqiong, Sichuan Province, to visit his friend Wang Ji, the daughter of the richest man in the area, Zhuo Wangsun, Zhuo Wenjun, who was newly widowed, and Sima played the zither song Phoenix at the banquet of the king of Zhuo, which provoked Wenjun. Zhuo Wenjun in the banquet hall window peeping, see Sima Xiangru handsome, talented, with its elopement that night. Later, the metaphor of men and women in love with men pursuing women, but also symbolizes the desire for a happy marriage and praise.

4. The Phoenix Returns to the Nest

"The Phoenix Returns to the Nest" in the "wrong in the wrong," the Ministry of the Army, Cheng Pu, the minister of the Ministry of the Army to return to his hometown, the first wife of the daughter of the wife Xueyan, ugly appearance; concubine Xue'e, beautiful and intelligent. Cheng Pu loves the handsome young man Mu Juyi and wants to marry Xue'e to him, but his wife wants to marry her own daughter Xue'e first. On Cheng's birthday, Mu Juyi comes to pay his respects and stays in the library. In the middle of the night, Xue Yan goes to the library under Xue E's name. Mu Juyi sees that she is ugly and misbehaves, so he thinks he has been cheated and runs away in anger.

Cheng Pu was recruited by the court and left home to take up his post. The royal family, Zhu Huanran, had long coveted Xue'e, and took the opportunity to marry her in the name of Mu Jiuyi, and his wife secretly married her with Xue'e. The truth was revealed on the night of the wedding. On the night of the wedding, the truth comes out, and the two of them are like mute men eating yellow peppers - it is hard to say anything. Cheng Pu calms the bandits and takes Xue'e to the army, where Mu Juyi is also in the army, and Cheng Pu brings up the marriage again. Cheng Pu again proposes marriage. Mu remembers the past and firmly refuses to marry, but the marshal and the supervisor of the army force him to marry. In the bridal chamber, Mu sees Xue'e's beauty and is pleasantly surprised. He makes amends, the misunderstanding is cleared up and a happy ending is achieved. The play is a comedy, with a series of interesting plots arising from misunderstandings and "mistakes within mistakes". The use of techniques such as "leaving buttons" and "shaking baggage" in the structure of the plot is quite successful. In "The Study Room", Xue Yan pesters Mu Juyi late at night in the name of Xue E. Mu then decides that Xue E is an ugly woman, which sets the stage for "leaving buttons". In the "bridal chamber" scene, the bride is obviously as beautiful as the heavenly fairy Xue'e, Mu Juiyi insisted that she is an ugly woman, refused to people in the bridal chamber, disgusted and irritable; the marriage master, Eunuch Hong and others do not know the reason, suspicious. This subjective and objective dissonance creates comedy, causing the audience to laugh, and in the laughter, Coconut Mu Juiyi is "moving bricks and smashing feet". When the "baggage" is revealed, the tent curtains are opened, the misunderstanding is eliminated, the accidental discovery makes the plot suddenly turn, the ecstatic Mu Juyi and hasten to the aggrieved Xue'e to make amends, but also attracted the audience's laughter. It is the "button" left well, "baggage" shaking wonderful, comedic suspense to grasp the audience.

5. phoenix clanging clanging

Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, the Chen state doctor Yi's divination to marry his daughter to Chen Lixiong's son Chen Jingzhong, his wife divination , said: "auspicious, it is said that 'phoenix emperor in the fly, and the clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging clanging, ...... five generations of its chang, and the Zhengqing. And Zhengqing. After eight generations, there is no one with the capital '" (see "Zuo Zhuan - Zhuang Gong 22") and sound, that is, male and female voices and harmony, loud and harmonious, in this case, the couple will be able to and harmonious, powerful and incomparable in later generations.

6. Hundred birds towards the phoenix

The Yellow Emperor on the throne, conscious of the world peace, want to see the legendary phoenix. To this end, he consulted the Elder of Heaven. The old man replied: the phoenix is an omen of good fortune, and it only appears in times of peace and prosperity. It is not easy to see it passing by, but to see it flying in a flock of birds is a once-in-a-lifetime auspiciousness. Yellow Emperor was very unhappy to hear, he said: since my reign, the world is peaceful, why even the shadow of the phoenix did not see? Tian Lao said: East has Chi You, West has Shao Hao, South has Yan Di, North has Zhuan Xu, four strong enemies eyeing, how to peace? Yellow Emperor listened to the troops crusade, so the world was unified. He saw a big bird with colorful plumes soaring in the sky, while countless exotic birds danced around it. The Yellow Emperor knew that this big bird was the phoenix, and that it was also the auspicious phenomenon he wanted to see - a hundred birds flocking to the phoenix (Han Shi Wai Zhuan).

7. The phoenix chirping on Qishan Mountain

There is an account of a phoenix-like bird chirping on Qishan Mountain in Shaanxi Province during the rise of the Zhou Dynasty in the Guoyu (国语-周语上). And the late Western Zhou Dynasty, "Poetry Classic - Daya - Volume A" also has a sentence that says: "Phoenix in flight, also Fu in the sky ...... phoenix chirping carry on, in his high hill." Is also talking about the phoenix song Qishan thing, so the Western Zhou time will be the phoenix bird as magical auspicious creatures, artifacts on top of quite heavy phoenix bird pattern.

8. Phoenix nirvana reborn in the fire

"Guangya": "phoenix, the male song that is that is, the female song that is foot foot". After flying for five hundred years, negative incense wood fly into the temple of the sun god, in the altar of self-immolation, the next day chick born, already with feathers, the third day wings have been full, resigned from the temple owner and flew away. Huainanzi" astronomy training cloud: "the essence of the fire for the day" Phoenix for the fire essence, then the Phoenix this bird, in ancient times for the day of the sign, the original is the so-called "Golden Bird". In the poem "Goddess", it refers to the birth of a new China.

The Nirvana Nameless Theory is written as follows: "Nameless said: The most human being is empty and without image, and everything is not created by me. The only person who will make all things into himself is a sage! What is the case? Non-reason is not holy, non-holy is not holy, reason is holy, saints are not different from reason. Therefore, the emperor of heaven said: Prajna should be sought in what? Shanji said: Prajna can not be sought in the color, nor away from the color. Also said: see karma for see law, see law for see Buddha, this is not different from the effect of things I also. Therefore, the most people ji metaphysical opportunity in the unglued, hidden meditative movement in the instant, the total of six to mirror the heart, a go to become a body. Ancient and modern through, always through, the poor end, no and two. Vastly large average, is called Nirvana. Scripture said: not separate from the law and get nirvana. It is also said: the dharma is boundless, so Bodhi is boundless, in order to know the way of Nirvana, exists in the Wonderful Deed. The result of the wonderful deed, this is the meditative one, then the thing is not different from me, I am not different from the thing, the thing I metaphysical will be, return to the limitless, into the first, backward, not after, how can the end began in the middle of it all! The celestial maiden says, "How long is the liberation of the aged, too."

Translated into our current language: the nameless one said, people who have reached a certain realm must have the experience of empty silence and spiritual ignorance, experience the empty realm, will not care about all things in the world, all things by my heart outflow, the implementation of the all things and I am one, only the sages can do! Why do you say this? Because one cannot become a sage without grasping this truth, and conversely, one cannot know this truth without being a sage, and it is precisely because one has grasped this truth that one becomes a sage; therefore, a sage is inseparably attuned to the truth, and all sages cannot leave this truth! This is just like the non-duality of color and mind as stated in the Prajna view, where phase is separation, where emptiness is color and color is emptiness. From the point of view of karmic law, all dharmas are emptiness, emptiness is all dharmas, seeing Buddha is seeing dharma, seeing dharma is seeing emptiness, all dharmas are empty, that is to say, seeing Buddha, the thing I forget, not one and not different. So through the empty realm of the saints always explore the mystery in the aura, hidden future in the change, the southeast, northwest, up and down the hexagonal unity of one heart, the past and future into one. The past and the future are one and the same. The past and the present are the same, and there is no difference between them. To be one mind is to be nirvana, to be one mind. This is what the Buddhist scriptures call "Nirvana without leaving the dharmas". And because the dharmas are infinite, so the quest for liberation is also infinite, from which it is deduced that the path to nirvana lies in maintaining the "wonderful deed" of the "wonderful deed", with the "wonderful deed", it is to know the truth that all dharmas are one and the same. There is no essential difference between all things and me, I am the same as all things in essence, and things and I are connected in a mysterious way, and the limitlessness is their final destination. Nirvana means to advance without advancement, to retreat without retreat, to have no beginning and no end, and to have no end in between! The celestial maiden says: The liberation of the Jain (Shariputra - cited) also has no end.

9. Fengmaolinjiao

"Fengmaolinjiao" is often used as a metaphor for rare and outstanding talents or other rare treasures. Liu Yiqing of the Southern Song Dynasty, "Shishu Xinyu - Rongzhi": Huan Wen, general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, also praised Wang Jinglun, the fifth son of Prime Minister Wang Guan, with the phrase "phoenix feather": "Jinglun's demeanor is like his father. Duke Huan looked at him and said, 'Da Nu inherently has phoenix hair.'" Lin, Kirin, the legendary beast. "Linjiao", like phoenix hair, also describes few and precious. "Northern History - Preface to the Literary Garden Biography": "Scholars are like the hair of the ox, and those who have accomplished something are like the horns of the forest." Now it is often used as a metaphor for rare and outstanding talents or other rare treasures.

10. The phoenix comes to dance

The phoenix flies and dances in a beautiful manner. In ancient times, it was used as a metaphor for auspicious signs and auspicious sensations. The Book of Han - Wang Mang biography: "Manna from the world, sweet springs from the ground, the phoenix came to the ceremony, the gods descended to set." Shangshu - Yiji: "Xiao Shao" nine into, the phoenix comes to the instrument" "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" 80: "Since the king of Wei took the throne, the unicorn descended, the phoenix came to the instrument."

11. Blowjob to attract the phoenix

Spring and Autumn Period, the Duke of Qin Mu took great pains to find a suitable match for his daughter, Lanyu, who dreamed of a young man riding a phoenix and blowing a blowjob, and the Duke of Qin Mu sent someone to look for a young man to play a blowjob, and he knew that the young man was named Xiaoshi. Duke Mu of Qin admired Xiao Shi's talent so much that he betrothed Lanyu to him. Xiao Shi and Lanyu were very happy after their marriage. Since Xiao Shi was a god in heaven, he could not stay on earth for a long time, so Xiao Shi rode the dragon and Lanyu crossed the phoenix, and both of them flew up to the sky.

The phoenix has a legend: reborn in fire. Legend has it that five hundred years ago, there is a god bird, set incense wood self-immolation, and then resurrected from the ashes of death, beautiful and very no longer dead, is so, called the immortal bird, also known as the phoenix. About the phoenix there is also a saying that the phoenix is the messenger of death, responsible for hooking away the souls of people, good people rise to heaven, bad people such as the ground.

12. King of all birds

The Vermilion Bird Phoenix is a divine bird, the king of all birds, the ancients said, the male is called the phoenix, the female is called the phoenix. Later, the phoenix is called together; then later, the dragon and phoenix are matched, the phoenix becomes the pronoun of the court consort. According to the myth transmission, the phoenix is in the East Yin tribe of bird totem evolved. The Classic of Mountains and Seas? The Great Wasteland Western Scripture" mentions a colorful bird with three names, called the Imperial Bird, the Vermilion Bird and the Phoenix Bird.

The Shanhaijing? Nanji Sanjing" recorded a bird that looked like a chicken and had colorful patterns called the Phoenix. This means that the image of the phoenix was beautiful from the very beginning. Later, it is also the same as the image of the dragon, the later the more complex, with a Hong head, Lin hip, snake neck, fish tail, dragon, tortoise body, swallow's chin, chicken beak. (See Huainanzi? (Seeing the Underworld.) Not the sycamore tree does not perch, not the bamboo fruit does not eat. (See "Poetry? Da Ya? It sings and dances by itself, and to see it means that the world is at peace. It was the leader of the birds and was followed by tens of thousands of people. The phoenix died on a mountain, and the birds came here every seven or eight months to commemorate it, and only dispersed after seventeen or eight days, so the mountain was called "Hanging Nian Mountain". (See "Shui Jing Ji Xie Wen Lu") Phoenix is one of the most popular birds. Phoenix is the combination and sublimation of the style of birds, its original form is no more than the four major categories of birds, eagles, peacocks and chickens. The northern Chinese people worshiped the king of birds, the eagle.

The stereotyping and standardization of the phoenix is in Liao, Jin, Yuan later, so that our original chicken, finch as the basic form of the phoenix has undergone great changes, especially the pair of strong wings, the eagle posture is prominent. The phoenix we now commonly see in artwork is actually the image after the Qing Dynasty, combining pheasant tail, chicken body, chicken crown, eagle's eye, eagle's claw, eagle's neck, peacock plume and mandarin duck's feather. Its tone is not as constant and stable as that of the dragon. Xuanwu Xuanwu is a spiritual creature that is a combination of a turtle and a snake. The original meaning of Xuanwu is Xuanmei, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Hei are similar. Wu means black; Hei means yin. Xuanmei was originally a description of turtle divination: the turtle's back is black, and turtle divination is to invite the turtle to go to the underworld to ask Zu Zu, and bring the answer back to the world in the form of a divination omen. Therefore, the earliest Xuanwu was a tortoise. Later on, the meaning of Xuanmei was expanded. Turtles live in rivers, lakes and seas (including sea turtles), so Xuanmei became the god of water; tortoises live long, so Xuanmei became the symbol of immortality; the first Hades was in the north, and the oracle bones of the Yin and Shang Dynasty were used for divination, i.e., "their divination must be northward", so Xuanmei became the god of the north.

Like the other three spirits, Xuanwu was transformed from the twenty-eight stars of the world: Dou, Niu, Nu, Wu, Xu, Gui, Zhu, and Pi. The people after the ancient times have the following explanations for Xuanwu, "Xuanwu" is the tortoise. In the book of Rituals, "The Rituals of the Qu", it is said, "In the line of the line, there will be the Vermilion Bird in front and Xuanwu in the back." "Xuanwu" is a tortoise and snake. The "Chu Rhetoric - far travel" Hong Xingzu supplement: "Xuanwu, is the tortoise and snake. It is located in the north, so it is called Xuanwu. The body has scales and armor, so it is called Wu. "Xuanwu" is the merging of a snake and a turtle with a snake. However, Xuanwu was upgraded by later Taoist priests to be the Great Emperor of the North, Zhenwu. It is different from the other three spirits. The other Green Dragon and White Tiger, only made the door god of the mountain temples, while the Zhu bird became the yet heavenly Xuan Wu.

13 Phoenix stops at Afan.

First, two lines of the ballad: "A female and a male, both fly into the purple palace" "Phoenix Emperor Phoenix Emperor, why not fly high to return to their homeland? Why don't you fly back to your hometown, and get yourself killed here for no reason?"

Again, a beautiful man: the former Qin almost united the north, annexed the former Yan, Yan master had no choice but to put his own children Princess Qinghe and Prince Murong Chong as a gift to the palace. The two were taken in at the same time, and were favored by the court, while the prince fell into trouble and became a child molester. The two of them were taken to the palace at the same time, and the prince became a child molester.

That's why there is a ballad that says: "A female and a male, both flying into the purple palace." Three years later, Murong Chong gradually grew up, because Wang Mang persuasion, Fu Jian only Wan pain let out of the palace as Pingyang governor. Until Fu Jian was defeated by the Eastern Jin in the Battle of the Interstate War, Murong Chong, Yao Jan and other soldiers in the city of Afan and attacked, he wielded the sword to snow shame, as if it had been a success in the city of Afan and claimed the throne as Emperor Wei.

Then there's his connection to the phoenix: Coincidentally, Afang is full of sycamores and bamboos. Legend has it that when the phoenix emperor saw the sycamore trees, he used to come down to rest and eat the bamboos to fill his stomach. It is even said that the phoenix perched on the sycamore and burned to the ground. Three years of shame in exchange for, blood wash Chang'an. So, the green buds everywhere, attracted by the fire phoenix. And, Murong Chong's little word, the name is: Phoenix Emperor. "Feng Huang" is the "phoenix" of the generic way of writing.

Finally, if you are interested, say his ending: the Phoenix Emperor that is the transformation of the jade face of the Cultivation of Luo, white snow, the sword pointed to Chang'an, the Emperor of the Cultivation of the Cultivation of the Cultivation of the Jade Face, white snow, the sword pointed to Chang'an. You confuse people life and death, Fu Jian also paid the same price, the emperor had embraced the most beautiful child molester, trapped in the city of Chang'an, the rice is exhausted, after the death of a hurried burial with the Longhorn Mound. Thus, the iron horse and golden goose, flatten the former humiliation, inside and outside Chang'an, thousands of miles of smoke and dust. Blood rain and wind step flat road, a single rider in front of Chang'an, at that time, this is called the five hu sixteen men the first beautiful man, with a river of blood, the lives of many people, to prove their own blood. Thus, the city of Chang'an is deserted, the former Qin was destroyed, the country of Yan was restored, but for Murong Chong, where to find the way back to the road to see said, since the ancient beauty of the famous generals, do not allow the world to see the white head. If the emperor and the general are beauties, their fate is even more tragic. Soon after Emperor Feng was crowned emperor, he was killed by his deputy because of a dispute between the generals over their homesickness. In fact, for him, there was no place to call home. The people are in a terrible state, and the world can't stop them from mocking him. Born in an imperial family, he was a child molester for a few years, but he died at the end of the world after taking the throne in disgrace. This pretty young man, the appearance of extreme Yin to soft, but the heart is like steel like iron, and, not to live up to the expectations of the cunning and vicious. The former, the coming, even if the face of peach blossom enchanting color, but also the beauty of the phoenix king.

The legend of the phoenix

1, the related myths and legends were first circulated in the East, so there is the Oriental bird, the bird of immortality.

Western myths and legends also have narratives about the divine bird. The phoenix in Guo Moruo's poem "Phoenix Nirvana" refers to the phoenix in Western legends.

Ancient Egyptian legend holds that the phoenix is the size of an eagle, with golden feathers, glittering wings, colorful appearances, and pleasing chirping, and that it can bring good fortune and increase longevity; at the same time, it is believed that there is only one phoenix in the world, and its life expectancy is five hundred years. At the time of death, the phoenix will collect aromatic plants, branches, herbs to build a nest, and then set fire to itself, in the flames, a young phoenix was born. The newborn young phoenix then puts the ashes of the old phoenix into a medicinal egg, coats the egg with antiseptic spice oil, and flies with it to the Sun God, who places it on the altar of the Temple of the Sun.

The "phoenix" referred to above is somewhat different from the phoenix of Chinese legend. The phoenix of Western legend resembles the eagle, while the Chinese phoenix more closely resembles the peacock. Ancient Chinese myths and legends do not seem to mention the Phoenix burning itself.