What is the name of the ancient Chinese sacred beast with a dragon head and horse body

Ancient Chinese sacred animal with a dragon's head and a horse's body is a brave animal.

According to legend, bravery is a fierce beast, but this beast is divided into male and female, male named "Pi", female named "brave". Pixi, also known as Tianlu, Paixie, Baixie, *** four names, is an ancient Chinese myths and legends of a sacred beast.

Dragon head, horse body, Lin feet, shaped like a lion, gray fur, can fly. Brave and fierce, it is responsible for patrol work in the sky to stop demons, devils, plagues and diseases from disturbing the heavenly court.

Legendary allusions about brave warriors:

1, King Wu of Zhou

Brave warriors are fierce beasts of the West living in Tibet, Sichuan Kangding area many years ago, with extremely strong fighting ability. When Jiang Ziya helped King Wu to conquer the Zhou Dynasty, he came across a brave animal on a march, but no one recognized it at that time. Jiang Ziya felt that it was so powerful and extraordinary that he tried to subdue it and made it his mount. He won many battles with it.

When King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty saw that Pixiu was so brave and marvelous, he gave him an official title of "Yun". At that time, Jiang Ziya realized that the brave man ate an incredible amount of food every day, but never urinated or defecated. And its only excretory system is from its whole body fur secretes a little bit of strange and incomparable sweat, the four sides of the animals smell this strange fragrance after all scrambling, can not help but run to compete for food, the result of the anti-Pixiu eat.

2, Zhu Yuanzhang

Zhu Yuanzhang after the capital of Nanjing from the ground dug out a pair of brave, and brave is the Dragon King's nine princes, so the order in the Linggu Temple next to the establishment of Pixi Hall for the pair of Pixi.

Zhu Yuanzhang fixed the capital of Nanjing after the repair of Zhongshanmen, but no money in the treasury, Prime Minister Liu Bowen (also feng shui master) suggested that Zhu Yuanzhang with a pair of braves to the wealth, Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the door in the country to put a pair of the world's largest braves, the results of the two rivers of the gentry have made donations, a big move in the earth and wood, the scene is grand so that Zhu Yuanzhang emotionally, saying: the subjects of the Great Ming is so loyal, the river is bound to be 10,000 years.