What does Kirin look like?

Animals in ancient legends. It looks like a deer, with horns on its head, scales all over its body and a tail like an oxtail. Its head looks like a dragon, like a horse, like a deer, and its tail looks like an oxtail. It has colorful hair lines on its back, yellow hair on its abdomen, and its mouth can spit fire and its voice is like thunder.

There are horns, which are dragon horns. The horns are extremely hard and light gray. According to the description of ancient books, it looks like a raccoon and can also be written as an ostrich, referring to the deer in ancient books; Tail like a cow, hoof like a horse; There is a diagonal line at the top of the round head. But it is said that the beginning of Qijia is roughly like a deer.

As the head of the four spirits, the dragon turtle is really rare. Later, because the feudal emperor admired dragons and phoenixes, Kirin was excluded from the people. It has become a unique representative of folk auspicious symbols. Judging from its external shape, it includes the dragon head, moose body, oxtail, horseshoe (called "wolf's hoof" in history books) and fish scales.

It was regarded as a god beast and a benevolent beast by the ancients. Kirin is an auspicious animal in ancient myths and legends of China. It is a descendant of Ma Jian, and its ancestor is Ying Long. The male beast is neat, and the female beast is forest. It is gentle, although it has weapons that can attack the enemy, but it does not hurt people and animals, and does not trample on insects and flowers, so it is called a benevolent beast.

The ancients called men Qi and women Lin. The Book of Songs wrote: Kirin is a benevolent beast. I said "Qi" and I said "Lin". Kirin is an auspicious god pet, advocating peace and longevity; Kirin, because of its profound cultural connotation, is made into various ornaments and ornaments in the traditional folk etiquette in China, which are worn and placed at home, in order to pray and keep peace.