The correct pronunciation of brave

Pixiu pronounced pi xiu (respectively, two and one), Pi and the skin of the skin homophonic, brave and the rest of the rest homophonic, Pi also known as the "Paixie, Tianlu, Baixie", commonly known as "Pi big tiger", is the Chinese ancient books and folk myths and legends of a ferocious beast.

There are two interpretations of bravery:

1, a beast of legend.

2, a metaphor for the brave soldiers or army, such as "brave soldiers".

For example, Tang Zhang in the "Wang's Shinto monument" said: "gallant generals, brave and brave (qún)", this sentence is a metaphor for brave troops, more than even used to compare the brave warriors.

Another example is the book of han, "the western region of the biography" on a record: "peach pluck, a said fu pluck, like a deer tail long, one-horned known as tianlu, two-horned known as wai xi." This passage is meant to describe the brave warrior. This passage is intended to describe the appearance of bravery, which said the evil is bravery.

The brave man, its body like a tiger and leopard, its head and tail like a dragon, its color is also gold and jade, its shoulder has a pair of wings but can not show, and the head of a horn and tilted back. Pixi is an ancient Chinese legend of a ferocious beast, is like the phoenix, unicorn as divided into female and male, the male named "Pi", the female named "brave", the Chinese tradition of decorating "Pi" custom, Pi means a lot of things, people believe that it can bring joy and good luck.

Historical records:

The book of the Han Dynasty, "Western Region", there is a paragraph on the record: "Ugo mountain away from the state of the peach plucked, lions, rhinoceros". Meng Kang note: "Peach, one day Fu Biao, like a deer tail long, one-horned called Tianlu, two-horned called Paixie." Paixie is brave

According to ancient books, Paixie is a beast, one of the five ancient beasts (in addition to dragons, phoenixes, turtles, unicorns), known as the beast of fortune. Pixi was once the totem of two ancient clans. Legend has it that it helped the two emperors to fight, and was given the title of "Tianlu Beast", which means "Heavenly Fortune". It specializes in guarding the treasure for the emperor, is also a symbol of the royal family, known as the "emperor treasure". And because of the brave specializing in eating beasts and evil spirits, it is also known as "辟邪". Ancient Chinese feng shui scholars believe that the brave is to turn misfortune into auspicious beasts.

But there are also ancient lyricists to braves as a metaphor for evil, the Southern Song Dynasty female lyricist Xu Junbao wife of the lyrics "Manchu Tingfang - Han on the prosperity of the" "once the swords and armies were raised, the flags embrace, millions of braves," braves are said to be ferocious beasts, a metaphor for the Yuan soldiers. The Xinhua Dictionary of the word "brave": ① ancient book of a fierce beast; ② metaphorical brave army. It can be seen that bravery is not necessarily Pixi beast.

Two kinds of beasts in ancient books. Sima Zhen Suo Yin: "These six beasts can be taught to fight." Liaodong people called the white bear. The male is said to be Pi, the female is said to be brave, so the ancients more even cited."

Duo Lian is used as a metaphor for a brave warrior. Tang Zhang said "Wang's Shinto monument": "gallantly general, brave and overwhelming. Qing Bi Zhuo's poem "Chronicle": "Taking advantage of the thief's lack of defense, the night into a thousand brave soldiers." Liu Yazi's poem "Reading History" No. 7: "The green forest family embraces the brave men, and the breast stinks of the children according to the upper stream."