The twelve birds in ancient times spread their wings to cover the sun (all from myths and legends)

I believe that most of my friends have learned Zhuangzi's "Free Travel". What are the words? There is a kind of fish named Kun in the north. How old is Kun? Make many people interested in this name? Kun? The bird became curious, not only imagining how big its wings were. In fact, the ancient god birds are not only the familiar phoenix and Kun, but also many god birds with different abilities and shapes. Let me introduce twelve birds in ancient times to you.

Ancient Twelve Birds 1, Yuanfeng

2. Wangque

3. Kun Peng

4. Jiu Feng

5.suzaku

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7. Sanzuwu

8. Phoenix bird

9. burning birds

10, qingluan

1 1, Bifangniao

12, Bimingbird

1, Yuanfeng

In the setting of the novel of Red Yellow Willow, Yuan Feng, originally the second title of Emperor Zhao of Han Dynasty, has become one of the beasts bred like Pangu in chaos, but there is no Yuan Feng in China mythology. In the past, Pangu created the world and fixed the four innate elements of fire, water and wind, which made the wilderness space stable. The four innate elements gradually evolved into the acquired five elements. In the process of evolution, the four innate elements merged and infected with each other, and finally Yuanfeng.

2. Wangque

The first peacock between heaven and earth, in myth, is King Daming. He and the Golden Winged Dapeng Carving are brother and sister, born by Yuan Feng. Wang que is delicious. When the Tathagata built a six-foot golden body at the top of the mountain, it was swallowed by Wang Que.

3. Kun Peng

Kunpeng is the most familiar of the twelve ancient birds. How is "Happy Travel" written by Zhuangzi recorded? There is a fish named Kun in the northern ghost, and Kun is so big that it doesn't know how many miles. Adult birds, whose names are Peng and Peng's back, don't know their thousands of miles, but fly angrily, and their wings hang like clouds. ? This Kunpeng is good at changing, channeling everything, helping the Emperor of Heaven to clarify Yuyu, and was named as the Nine-Day Kunpeng.

4. Jiu Feng

Jiu Feng: The appearance of the image of the nine-headed bird originated from the nine-phoenix god bird of Chu people. Shan Hai Jing written by Chu people from Warring States to the early Han Dynasty is the earliest document to record the image of the nine-headed bird. Shan Hai Jing? The Great Northern Wilderness Classic says: "In the Great Northern Wilderness, there is a mountain called the Arctic Pavilion. Sea water pours into the north. There are nine gods, a bird with a face and a "nine phoenix".

5.suzaku

Suzaku is one of the four spirits in ancient China mythology, which originated from the worship of stars in ancient times. It is the southern god who represents Emperor Yan and the seven nights in the south. It is separated from the gossip, and the five elements are the main fire, symbolizing Lao Yang in the four elephants and summer in the four seasons. In the pre-Qin period, it was thought that it could lead the soul of the dead to heaven, and later generations thought it could give people immortality. The theory of divination flourished in Han dynasty, and its symbolic significance increased, such as reservation, ding bing, ceremony and so on. After the Han Dynasty, Taoism absorbed it as the protector and called it god of light.

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Ancient carving: It looks like a horned carving, sounds like a baby, and is a cannibal. Leopard body, carved mouth, single horn and giant mouth can swallow one person at a time. It used to live in Leize, but with the evolution of time, it has left the water and ran to the Leyun wasteland, becoming the most terrible monster. I have been in a deep sleep state for many years, and I wake up every ten years to feed and eat 100 people at a time.

7. Sanzuwu

A three-legged crow is also called a three-legged sun. In ancient China mythology, there was a black three-legged crow in the middle of the red sun. The black crow crouched in the middle of the red sun, and the golden light flashed? Red light? , so called? Sun? As one of the mythical birds in ancient China, the image of the sun was bipedal at first, and it evolved into tripodal in the late Western Han Dynasty. See the two-legged grandson unearthed from Mawangdui Han tomb, and because of its different nature from crow, it is enough to show the difference. Three-legged Sun is the name of the god bird driving a Japanese car in China mythology. It is the evolution of three ancestral houses in Japan and Han Dynasty. Three feet black is also called? Wu Wu? . Living in Japan and China, I have three feet.

8. Phoenix bird

Phoenix bird is called Phoenix Emperor. The legendary god bird in China. Shan Hai Jing? Wild west sutra:? There are five kinds of bird gatherers: one is the imperial bird, the other is the phoenix bird, and the other is the phoenix bird. ? According to the so-called wuqinxi, all birds belong to phoenix. Shan Hai Jing? "Xi Jing in the Sea" cloud:? The raptor is in the northeast of the county. Its birds are red, yellow, green and Dongxiang. ? "Overseas Western Classics" cloud:? Mongolian birds are extinct in northern Hungary, with green red tails. ? I only remember the phoenix bird. See? Kill birds? .

9. burning birds

Phoenix bird is the king of birds in ancient mythology, which also refers to female phoenix. The phoenix bird described in Shan Hai Jing has colorful feathers, looks like a golden pheasant, and has many characteristics such as eagle, snake and peacock. It has a crown feather and two colorful tails on its head. According to Xiye Jing, the phoenix bird is a god bird around the emperor, and its pattern symbolizes? Five virtues? , is only in the heyday of the Swiss beast.

10, qingluan

Phoenix bird is one of the prototypes of phoenix, named after being born in Luanzhou. Where does the phoenix bird in Shan Hai Jing live? Women's bed? Mountain, this ancient giant bird is bigger than the phoenix bird. There is an old saying? Husband and wife and Ming? Phoenix bird is good at singing and phoenix bird is good at dancing. There is also folklore that the phoenix bird belongs to the young phoenix bird and has not yet evolved into the phoenix bird stage.

1 1, Bifangniao

Fang Bi gets its name from the crackling sound when bamboo and wood burn. It is Vulcan and Wood God, and lives in trees. Fang Bi looks like a red-crowned crane, but only has one leg (one wing), a blue body with red spots and a white beak. Fang Bi doesn't eat grains and flames. It is said that the appearance of Fang Bi indicates a big fire. Legend has it that when the Yellow Emperor gathered ghosts and gods in Mount Tai, he sat in the chariot of Longla, and Fang Bi waited beside the chariot.

12, Bimingbird

Two-eyed birds, also known as two-eyed birds, have two pupils in each eye. It is shaped like a chicken and sounds as loud and beautiful as a phoenix. It often shakes off all its feathers, slaps its featherless body with its bare wings, dances and spins in the air. It can drive away tigers, leopards, jackals, wolves and other beasts, so that many kinds of monsters dare not harm human beings. It also has low requirements for human beings. It doesn't eat food, only drinks a little jade cream, so it is very satisfied. However, this bird's attachment to its hometown is unbearable, so it has to be allowed to travel freely.

After reading the above twelve kinds of ancient birds, I believe that these birds, which only exist in people's imagination, are more single-minded and kind to everyone. Most of these birds come from oriental myths and legends. They combine the characteristics of many common animals and are the products of people's sublimation from life in ancient times. Moreover, these divine birds are gifted, can call the wind and call the rain, save the people from fire and water, and also reflect the fatigue of the ancient working people and their expectations for a new life.