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The legend of ancient beasts?

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The beasts on Kunlun Mountain, the famous beasts, are all white, can speak human words and understand the feelings of all things, and rarely appear, unless a saint ruled the world at that time, and he came with books.

The Chronicle of Xuanyuan tells the story of Bai Ze, a god beast: "The emperor (Huang) made a hunting tour, crossed the sea to the east, climbed Mount Huan, and got the beast of Bai Ze, which was eloquent and reached the love of all things. Because asking ghosts and gods in the world. Throughout the ages, there are 1,520 kinds of people who have changed their spirits, as Bai Ze said; The emperor ordered pictures to be written for the world to see. "

One-legged dragon monster in ancient China legend

Born in Broken Mountain in the East China Sea, it looks like an ox, with no horns, huge body and black body, but it is supported by only one foot, also known as one-legged kui.

Osmium is a kind of evil beast, which can emit the light of the sun and the moon and make a thunderous cry.

phoenix

Everyone is familiar with the god bird. Its head looks like a chicken, its chin looks like a swallow, its neck looks like a snake, its chest looks like a rainbow and its tail looks like a fish. Birds of Five Virtues.

kylin

It is a kind creature with powerful demon power. It understands the world and the will of God, and can listen to fate. There are twelve countries in the human world, ruled by twelve kings respectively. Kings are not judged by birth or merit, but by fate. Kirin is a god beast that conveys destiny and chooses a king for the country.

The legendary beast-fierce man

He is just a horrible and disgusting villain. According to the eighteen-year record of Zuo Zhuan, "Zhuan Xu has an untaught genius. He doesn't know what to say, but he is stubborn when he says it. He is arrogant and arrogant, and the chaos in the world is called. " This hopeless villain eventually evolved into the famous ancient Warcraft after his death. "The Wild West Classic" records that "in the wild west, there are wild animals, like tiger and dog hair, two feet long, with a human face and tiger feet, a pig's mouth and teeth, and a tail of ten feet and eight feet long, which disturb the wilderness and are famous all over the world." It is already a strange and distorted image, which is not so much Warcraft as the product of failed biochemical experiments and nuclear leakage.

Haitai

The famous god beast produced under the ancient divine judgment system is also known as the "law beast". According to Lun Heng and Huai Nan Zi? According to Xiuwu, it is as big as an ox, as small as a sheep, and looks like a unicorn. It has thick dark hair, bright eyes and usually a unicorn on its forehead. It is said that those who have broken horns die. Some people have wings, but most of them have no wings. Have high wisdom, can understand people's words, and will use horns to resist dishonest and disloyal people. Later generations often raise ordinary sheep instead of horses in temples.

roar

Shaped like a rabbit, the tips of two ears are very long, only more than a foot long. The lion is afraid of it, and it will rot if it is covered and drowned.

"Talking about Yan Exposure".

heavy ming bird

It is said in "The Collection of Notes" that Yao reigned for 70 years, and there was a country with accumulated virtues, offering a bird and a pair of clear words in sight. It looks like a chicken and sings like a phoenix. Hairless, fleshy wings fly. It can drive away wild animals and wolves so that evil spirits can't hurt them. Or come several times a year, or not come for several years. All the people in China are sweeping out the door and keeping their eyes open. For example, before the arrival of the Qingming bird, people in China either carved wood or made bronze statues.

Because of this, the image of birds, placed between Ming households, enchanting and the like, naturally takes a back seat. So now, people carve wooden statues, make bronze statues or draw images, so now they draw chickens on the doors.

Square

In the classic of mountains and seas. There is a bird in Zhange Mountain, which is shaped like a crane, with one foot, red stripes and a white beak. It is called squaring. Overseas south longitude: "Chinese bird is in the east, clear water is in the west, and there is only one foot." And Huai Nan Zi. "Xun Shang" said that Mu Shengfang wrote. Therefore, Fang Bi is made of wood, and its shape is a bird with one foot. It doesn't eat whole grains. In Selected Works, Zhang Heng [Tokyo Fu] said: "The Chinese side ... the old father is a bird with two feet and one wing, and often makes trouble on others." "and" everything is wrong. "Ten Years Past" said: "In the past, the Yellow Emperor combined ghosts and gods and drove elephants and dragons in Shan Ye, Western Qin, and Fang Bi was harmful. Yuan Ke said that China is a phoenix and the phoenix is a sunbird, so "seeing it is wrong." Pianya: "Fang Bi, a flaming bird. Phoenix is a god and a symbol of disaster. " Jing Xun, Huainan Ziben: "When did Yao ... the wind was harmful, and Yao did it ... and paid the wind to the clear autumn?" "The wind is Taihō." Huainanzi and Mubi Shengfang are influenced by the five elements, which means that wood makes a fire. Because Fang Bi is a firebird, Fang Bi is used instead of wood.

A person who loves ...

A magical classic? "Southwest Famine Classic": "There are people in the southwest, with hair on their bodies and tapirs on their heads. Greed, such as malicious evil, don't have to collect money, good at robbing people's food (the original two sentences "good from collecting money, don't eat people's valley", according to "Historical Records? Biography of Five Emperors: Introduction and Reform of Justice). The strong take the old and weak, and are afraid to attack the single, which is called gluttony. Spring and Autumn Annals is a gluttonous person, and Jinyun is also a talented person. "

Yuan Fei chicken

Also known as Ming Fan Chicken and Muyu Chicken. Purple, with eyes under the wings. Work at sunrise and return at sunset. (another kind of pigeon)

It is recorded in "The Ghost in the Cave".

Philippi

Kind of like a raccoon, with a white tail. Raising it can relieve sadness. (senior pet)

Shan Hai Jing (Zhongshan Jing).

Zhuqi

A man with a leopard face, cow ears, long tail and a loud voice. Walk with a tail, and roll it at rest.

Shan Hai Jing (Beishan Jing).

muddledness

A long-haired quadruped, like a dog, has a belly and no five internal organs. If you resist good, rely on evil. (Absolute evil spirits)

(Otherwise, chaotic theism, unless otherwise specified, does not belong here)

It is recorded in The Divine Comedy Classic (Wild West Classic).

yes-man

Living in the human abdomen. Every time the host makes a sound, there is a small sound effect in the abdomen, and it will get bigger and bigger. It can be cured with thunder pills. (ventriloquism? )

Among them, "Continued Ink Man Waving Rhinoceros" and "Sui and Tang Jiahua" are included.

Qing Ji

The so-called leaving. Zejing, humanoid, is about ten centimeters tall. Yellow dress and yellow hat, called yellow car, fly to Wan Li. Calling its name will inform you (it is said that it is also catching fish). In history, there was a man named (Wu Wangliao, a brave soldier), and this tower was named for this.

Both Pipe (Water Land) and Taiping Preview are included.

Shanhaijing Huang Da Nanjing Wushan Yellow Bird: There are Wushan people and yellow birds in the west. Physician, Bazhai. The yellow bird is in Wushan, the mysterious snake.

Another note: the emperor is the emperor of heaven, and medicine refers to the immortal medicine, that is, the immortal medicine.

Water Kirin-a kind and powerful creature, familiar with the world and God's will, can listen to destiny and be a king beast.

Water Kirin: Born in an endless cold pool in the wild, it likes to swallow monsters, and can subdue thousands of waters and scare off monsters. Later generations are different.

People comfort and protect Lingshan.

Zhu Rong, the god of fire, and Miyamoto, the god of water, are descendants of Shennong. In World War I, Zhu Rong, riding a fire dragon, won a great victory, and * * * was so angry that he couldn't touch the top of the mountain, causing the earth and rivers to pour. In order to balance the power of fire and water, Zhu Rong sent a fire dragon to wander underground. One of the descendants of this fire dragon is the red flame beast. Because the floods that flooded the fields were ordinary water, Zhu Rong took samadhi fire from the fire dragon, and as its offspring, the Yan beast no longer owned Shenhuo. Even so, the fiery beast of steel and iron has not been defeated by mortals.

"Spirit beast" Red beast: the essence of all fires, the guardian of mysterious fire, the whole body is red, the fire is raging, and people die. hearsay

There are pagan secret methods, and ancient evil spirits used red Warcraft to urge the Eight Fierce Magic Array, which is very strange.

Xuanwu is a spiritual thing composed of turtles and snakes. Xuanwu originally meant Xuanming, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Ming are interlinked. Wu means black; Ghost means yin. At first, Xuan Ming described the turtle divination as follows: the turtle's back is black, and the turtle divination first invited the turtle to ask questions in the underworld, brought back the answers and showed them to the world in the form of divination. Therefore, the earliest Xuanwu is the tortoise. Since then, the meaning of Xuanming has been expanding. Turtles live in rivers, lakes and seas (including turtles), so Xuan Ming became a water god; The tortoise lives long, and Xuan Ming has become a symbol of immortality; It turns out that the underworld is in the north, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions's divination in the Shang Dynasty is "divination must go north", so Xuan Ming became a northern god again.

White tiger is the god of war and war. Tigers have many magical powers, such as avoiding evil, praying and punishing evil, promoting good, getting rich and getting married, etc. And it is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also changed from the stars. Among these 28 stars, there are 7 in the west: osmium, building, stomach, ang, bi, Gou and Shen. Therefore, it is the representative of the west, and its whiteness is due to the west. The five elements belong to gold and the color is white. So it is called white tiger not because it is white, but because it comes from five elements. Kirin is a kind and powerful creature, who knows the way of the world, knows God's will and can listen to destiny. There are twelve countries in the human world, ruled by twelve kings respectively. Kings are not judged by birth or merit, but by fate. Kirin is a god beast that conveys destiny and chooses a king for the country.

In China, the phoenix is a symbol of happiness. There are many kinds of prototypes. Such as golden pheasants, peacocks, vultures, mandarin ducks, blackbirds (swallows), etc ... Some people say it is a Buddhist Dapeng golden winged bird. According to the phoenix myth, the phoenix has a chicken's head, a swallow's chin, a snake's neck, a fish's tail and five-color stripes. There are five kinds of phoenixes, divided by color: Red Phoenix, Lan Fenghuang, White Swan and Rayna Sue Phoenix, which can also be called Suzaku or Blackbird. Suzaku is one of the four spirits, and like the other three spirits, it comes from the stars, which is the general name of the seven nights in the south: well, ghost, willow, star, Zhang, wing and bird. Think of it as Suzaku. Scarlet, like fire, the south belongs to fire, hence the name Phoenix. It also has the characteristics of being far from fire, also called fire phoenix, just like the immortal birds in the west.