What is a brave man? What are the benefits of wearing a brave man?

Pronunciation píxiū (pronounced as "pi xiu" in Cantonese)

Etymology

(1) [fabulous wild beast]: a kind of ferocious beast in ancient books.

Legend has it that bravery is a kind of ferocious beast, and this kind of beast is divided into female and male, male name "Pi", female name "bravery". But now passed down are not divided into male and female. In ancient times this kind of beast is divided into a corner and two horns, a corner of the known as "Tianlu", two horns of the known as "Paixie". Later, there is no longer divided into one horn or two horns, mostly in the form of a horn. In the south, the general public is like to call this beast for "brave", while in the north is still called "evil". As for the Tianlu, there are fewer people to call this beast, and some people will call it "monster" or "four elephants".

Pixi is to the wealth of food, the food of the four sides of the wealth. Traditionally in China, there is a custom of "bravery", which, like the dragon and lion, has the effect of driving away the evil spirits of the place and bringing joy and good luck.

Before the dear beast, it carries brave. -- "Li Ji - Qu Li"

(2) [brave troops]: a metaphor for valiant troops

Ordered the brave troops to sound a warning to the front.

The Book of Jin - Xiong Yuan Biography

The Book of Yi Zhou - Zhou Zhu: "The depth of the mountain is also, tiger, leopard and brave troops can not be served?"

The Records of the Grand Historian (史记-五帝本纪)："[Hengyuan] taught the warriors and tigers to fight with the Emperor of Yang Di in the field of Osaka Spring."

Shi Ma Zhen Suo Yin: "These six beasts can be taught to fight."

Xu Ke "qing taolu class notes - animal - brave": "brave, shaped like a tiger, or said like a bear, hair color gray, Liaodong people called the white bear. Male said Pi, female said brave,, therefore, the ancients more even lifted."

Many of them are used as a metaphor for brave warriors. Tang Zhang said "Wang's Shinto monument": "gallantly general, brave and overwhelming." Yuan Wang Shifu, "The West Wing," the second wedge: "Enviously, Wei Tong millions of braves, sitting on the border." Qing Bi Zhuo, "Chronicle" Poem: "Taking advantage of the thief's insufficient defense, we entered a thousand brave soldiers at night." Liu Yazi, "Reading History," Poem No. 7: "The green forest family owns the brave soldiers, and the milky and stinky children are in the upper stream."

Pixi role

Pixi and the unicorn is different, Pixi is a fierce beast, and the protection of the master of the heart is particularly strong. It has the function of suppressing the house and warding off evil spirits.

Pixi in feng shui role, can be divided into the following points:

One, there is the role of the house to ward off evil. Will have opened the light of bravery placed in the home, can make the home run well, good luck to strengthen, drive away the evil, have the effect of suppressing the house, become the guardian angel of the home, to protect the family peace.

Second, there is a tendency to wealth and prosperity role. In addition to the help of partial wealth, on the positive wealth is also helpful, so the businessman is also appropriate to put brave in the company or home.

Three, there is a role in resolving the five yellow big bad luck. Used to resolve the brake home and prosperity, especially in the financial aspects, brave is a more obvious role.

The origin of bravery

Pixi is also known as Tianlu, Pixi. Is an ancient Chinese myths and legends of a sacred beast, dragon head, horse body, Lin feet, shaped like a lion, gray fur, will fly. Pixi is fierce and powerful, it is responsible for patrol work in the sky to stop demons, plagues and diseases from disturbing the heavenly court. In ancient times, people also commonly used braves as the name of the army. It has a mouth without anus, can swallow everything and never diarrhea, can attract wealth and treasure, only in and out, magical powers. Nowadays, many Chinese people wear jade products with braves because of this.

Han book "western region" on a record: "Ugo mountain away from the state of peach pluck, lion, urine cow". Meng Kang note: "Peach pluck, a day Fu pluck, like a deer tail long, one-horned known as the deer, two-horned known as Paixie." Paixie is brave.

But after the dynastic transformation, the brave form is more unified, such as short wings, double horns, curly tail, mane and whiskers are often connected with the forehead or backbone, protruding eyes, long fangs. To now commonly seen braves are mostly one-horned, long tail.

Generally manufactured bravery like the material has three categories:

One, metal - generally to copper to manufacture, because this type of metal is cheaper, and polished color close to gold.

Second, wood - some old houses will use the quality of solid wood carved braves, and then placed on the beams, used to block the brake.

Three, porcelain - made of different kinds of jade.

Different substances made of bravery statues, can be placed in the feng shui of the auspicious position, many geographers believe that there is a role in catalyzing wealth, and in the eight different directions, generally placed in the copper made of bravery, catalytic power will be very strong. In fact, brave for positive or partial wealth will be beneficial, so brave like in recent years there are signs of popularity; however, the use of brave to promote wealth, always with a little religious color, so in the XuanKongDaGua positive god of the day when the god or the bird rabbit sun auspicious time, open the brave to promote the power of the strongest, regardless of the work belongs to the positive line or biased line of work. But there is a point to note, the people who commit crimes, brave may not have the power to catalyze the wealth, this is the characteristics of the spirit animal, and brave and jade to catalyze the strongest power of wealth.

It is said that brave is the Dragon King's ninth prince, its staple food is even gold, silver and jewelry, natural body treasure, and other auspicious beasts such as three-legged toad compared to the head of more, so the Jade Emperor and the Dragon King's favor, however, eat more will always have diarrhea, so one day may not be able to help but drowned, and the Jade Emperor was angry, a slap down the results to the buttocks, the assholes! Was sealed up, from now on, the gold and silver jewelry can only enter can not come out, this story spread, after the brave is regarded as wealth into the treasure of the auspicious beasts.

Pixi also have male and female points, folklore says that the male brave on behalf of the fortune, while the mother of the brave on behalf of the treasury, there is a treasury to have library in order to keep, so the collection of the brave most of the collection of a pair, in order to be able to really attract wealth and treasure. But if you want to wear on the body, or a good, in order to avoid fighting, the above are legends, we refer to good !

Pixi's habits of lazy like sleeping, every day the best take him up to touch, play a play, as if to wake him up, wealth will follow.

Another bravery is placed on the desk bravery ornaments, if you can drive away bad men, to avoid unnecessary harassment.

According to ancient books, brave is a beast, one of the five ancient beasts (dragon, phoenix, turtle, unicorn), known as the god of wealth. Pixi was once the totem of two ancient clans. Legend has it that it helped the two emperors of the Yellow Emperor in battle, and was given the title of " Heavenly Luk Beast " that is, the meaning of heavenly blessings and fortune. It is designed for the emperor to guard the treasure, is also a symbol of the royal family, known as the "emperor treasure". And because of the brave special food beasts and evil spirits, it is also known as "辟邪" Ancient Chinese feng shui scholars believe that the brave is to turn the disaster into auspicious beasts of good fortune.

Pixi has twenty-six shapes, seventy-seven forty-nine incarnations, its mouth, abdomen, no anus, only eat not pull, symbolizing the eight sides of the wealth, only in and out, at the same time, can suppress the house to ward off evil spirits, dedicated to the master of the gathering of wealth and power.

Ancient sages believe that life is doomed, but the course can be changed, so the folk have "a touch of Pixi luck prosperous, and then touch Pixi fortune rolling, three touch Pixi Pingbuyun" of the good wishes.

Dragon in its image formation process, had a sea of collection of a variety of strange beast image. Later, these strange beast image in the development of the image of the dragon at the same time blended with a certain kind of characteristics of the dragon, the formation of the dragon born nine sons of different sayings. But the nine sons of the dragon for what, in fact, who ranked the oldest who ranked the second, and there is no exact record. Folk also have a variety of sayings, not the same.

It is said that once Ming Xiaozong Zhu Yougong had a whim, asked Li Dongyang, known for his erudition of the Ministry of Rites: "I heard that the dragon has nine sons, nine sons of what is the name?" Li Dongyang actually can not answer, after retreating from the court, put together, pulled out a list. According to Li Dongyang's list, the nine sons of the dragon are: Paddy Pit, Mocking Wind, Jairus, Gui Tuo, Shu Tu, Chi-chi, Pu Jung, Mythical Beast and Prisoner Bull. However, the sons of the dragon in folklore are much more than these. Quodid, Pixi, Taotie and so on are all said to be the sons of the dragon. In fact, the so-called dragon has nine sons, not the dragon happened to have nine sons. Ancient Chinese traditional culture, often to nine to indicate that very much, and has the supreme status. Nine is an imaginary number and a noble number, so it is used to describe the dragon's son. If one had to choose nine sons, one should also choose the nine of them that had the greatest influence in the folklore. Li Dongyang was also in a hurry to deliver, and the list he proposed was not representative.

One of the most influential stories about the "Nine Sons of the Dragon" is that:

The first son was a prisoner of the ox, who was fond of music and stood on the head of the qin. Some valuable huqin still have the image of a dragon's head engraved on their heads, which is called "dragon's head huqin".

The second son, Jairus, looks like a jackal with a dragon's horns, staring angrily, with his horns pressed back against his back. Jairus is a man who loves to kill and fight, and is carved on weapons such as sword rings and hilts, or on ceremonial weapons to deter people from fighting.

Third son of the mocking wind, look like a dog, a life of danger, today's corner of the temple beasts are its remains. These beasts arranged in a single line, standing in the front of the ridge, the leader of the beasts is a bird riding "immortal", followed by: dragon, phoenix, lion, Pegasus, seahorses, mythical beasts, fish, Xiezhi, bullfighting, and rows of shi. They are placed in a strict hierarchy, only the Palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Hall of Supreme Harmony can be all ten, secondary halls are to be reduced accordingly. Mocking the wind, not only symbolizes good luck, beauty and majesty, but also has the meaning of deterring demons and clearing up calamities.

The fourth son, Pu Juan, shaped like a dragon but smaller than a dragon, loved music and chirping, carved on the bell knob. It is said that Pu Juan lived by the sea and was usually most afraid of whales. Whenever he was attacked by whales, Pu Juan screamed. So, people put his image on the bell and carved the long wood that hit the bell into the shape of a whale to hit the bell with it for its loud and bright sound.

The five mythical beasts (suān ní) are also known as Geibei (金猊) and Lingibei (灵猊). Mythical Geibi is originally an alias for lion, so it is shaped like a lion, likes to smoke and sits well, leaning on the foot of the incense burner, which was introduced to China with Buddhism. Since Buddha Shakyamuni had the metaphor of a "fearless lion", it was logical to arrange the animal as a seat for the Buddha or carve it into an incense burner so that it could enjoy the incense in style. In addition, the mythical animal is the mount of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Mercy, and there is a temple dedicated to the mythical animal on Wutai Mountain, the Bodhisattva's homeland. Since the mythical beast is the fifth son of the dragon, the temple is called the Temple of the Five Masters, which is quite influential in the region. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the dragon decorations in the center of the neck collar of the stone or bronze lions are also images of mythical geibeys, which make the traditional Chinese door lions guarding the gates even more open and powerful.

Sixth Son Bi Xi bìxì, also known as Ba Xi, looks like a tortoise and likes to carry heavy loads. It is said that in the ancient times, it used to carry three mountains and five hills on its back to make waves. Later, it was subdued by Xia Yu and made a lot of achievements for him. After the success of the water treatment, Xia Yu took its achievements and let it carry them on its own back. Therefore, most of the stone monuments in China are carried by it. The Basha is very similar to the tortoise, but on closer inspection there are differences. The Basha has a row of teeth, while the tortoise does not, and the Basha and the tortoise also differ in the number and shape of the carapace on the back armor. The Basha, also known as the stone turtle, is a symbol of longevity and good fortune. It always strains to hold its head forward, its four feet desperately holding on, struggling to move forward, but always unable to move away.

Seven sons quodid (bì'àn), also known as the Charter, looks like a tiger, powerful, good prison lawsuit, people will be engraved and cast in the prison door, so the folk have a tiger's head jail. It is also rumored that it presides over justice, right and wrong, so it is also placed in the Yamen lobby two and officials on patrol to avoid the top of the card to maintain the solemn atmosphere of the public hall.

The eight sons of Xi Tuoi (xì), with the body of a dragon, are coiled around the head or both sides of the monument.

The last son, chi dragons (chī), also known as scops owls or owls (chī), fish-shaped dragons (some say they look like lizards with cut tails), like to look around, so they are situated at the two ends of the ridge of the temple. In Buddhist scriptures, chi dragon is the rain god under the seat of the thing, able to extinguish the fire. So it is placed in the ridge at both ends of the roof also has the effect of fire extinguishing.

It can be found that in this statement, the eldest son, Prisoner Bull and the fourth son, Pu Jung, are both fond of music, the third son, Mocking Fung, and the third son, Chi-ni, are located on the roof, and the sixth son, Gui Tuoi, and the eighth son, Negative Tuoi, are both surrounded by the stone tablets, which makes them repetitive. It would be better if we take one out of two of them and add some other common sayings:

Taotie (tāotiè), which looks like a wolf and is voracious for food, is located on bronzes and is now called taotie motif. Because it can also drink water, so the ancient times also carved in the middle of the outside of the bridge, to prevent the bridge from flooding. According to folklore, this monster is insatiable, eat all the food, and finally ate his own body, and finally ate only a head, so it fell into a "head without a body" reputation. The pit vipers, also known as centipede pit vipers, look like a fish is not a fish, good water, beautiful body, decorated in the top of the stone bridge railing.

Pepper Figure, like a screw clam, good closed mouth, gentle nature, a bit autistic, aversion to others into its lair, so people often carve its image in the door on the head of the store, or carved on the door.

Pixi, in the South and Southeast Asia are said to be the ninth son of the dragon, big mouth without anus, only in and out, deep for gamblers like. Macau casinos will be set up a jade braves, meaning that the mouth is big to eat four sides, only to earn not lose.

"No son of a tiger", the dragon so magical, can swallow clouds and spit, the wind and waves, become the idol of the Chinese people for thousands of years, its son is naturally not an idler. Dragons also have daughters, but not so famous, "Springtime Piggy" in the heroine is the little dragon lady. Dragon's children are strange, which is quite similar to the children of Zeus in Greek mythology. However, Europeans are more open-minded than the Chinese after all, in their mythology, Zeus is the god of the sky and even promiscuous typical, a moment into the horse a moment into the bull to molest women, our country's dragon is the rules and regulations, at best, also come to a "two dragons playing with pearls". In the eyes of the Chinese, the dragon is a symbol of authority and dignity, we say we are the "children of the Yellow Emperor", but also say they are the "descendants of the dragon".

Also, bravery is an alias for pandas in ancient China.

The two stone lions in front of the bank, which are often referred to as pandas, are in fact pandas, not lions as people think.

Pixi materials

General production of the material of the brave there are three categories:

One for the metal, most of the copper products, its price is cheap, the color is similar to gold, suitable for wealth.

Two is the hard texture of the wood, before the ancient times of some of the famous house, will use the good wood, carved into a brave on the beams and ridges, can block the house outside the inexplicable brake, go to the disaster to meet the blessing.

Three is porcelain products/jade products/glass, porcelain products are not common, most of them are used to bury in the ground, the same is to ward off evil spirits with.

Jade originally has the spirit of all things, of course, carved in jade Pixi, the effect is better, and generally jade carvings are worn, so you can protect their bodies.

Pixi opening method

The first statement:

Pixi opening method:

1, choose an auspicious day, will be cleaned up.

2, take half a bucket of well water, and then half a bucket of rain water.

3, pour into a pre-prepared container, this container should be clean.

4, put the clean and clean bravery into the container and soak it for three days.

5, take it out and wipe it off with a clean towel.

6, take some tea oil and apply it on the eyes of the brave, which is called enlightenment.

7, brave through human nature, open the light to be only one person present, brave open light, the first to see is you, will always bless you.

Another method:

Pixi open light method: put the newly purchased brave on the balcony during the day sunlight, moonlight at night is most likely to be irradiated to the location, placed 16 days Pixi can be naturally enlightened, this method of opening the light of Pixi absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon has a very strong anti-brake and attracting wealth ability.

The second theory:

The only way to open the light of the brave is to go to the temple to ask the master to open the light.

Because unlike the God of Fortune, unicorn, etc., the brave is generally not easy to open the light, the God of Fortune to open the light of the general burning talisman, chanting mantra can be, but the brave must first chant, please God, or can not be opened.

Pixi placement

Pixi placement has three taboos.

1, do not head to the front door (from the outside in the door of the other does not matter, but do not flush the toilet), because the front door is the god of the door or the god of wealth in charge of the place, the brave have no right to ask.

2, do not punch the mirror, because the mirror will produce light brake, brave taboo.

3, do not face the bed, which will be unfavorable.

Pixi's offerings

1, incense burner can not put sand, dirt, but to put ginger rice, pearl rice, black rice.

2, offerings in the fruit can not have pear, strawberry. No other taboo, wine and meat can also be offered.

3, women have menstruation or pregnancy is strictly prohibited to brave incense, caressing (brave avoid light, blood, tire brake).

4, do not often clean the brave, only four times a year cleaning time 2.6/6.2/7.14/9.12 are calculated by the lunar calendar.

5, do not move Pixi, shall not caress Pixi mouth and head, need to move when you can first use red silk cloth to wrap its head and then move.

Pixi is a legendary beast in the minds of Chinese people, it only has a hobby, that is, it likes to bite the money back to please the master.

If you're in a business that seeks partial wealth, such as earning a commission or bonus rather than a fixed salary, then enshrining a brave animal would be a great way to attract wealth. It will take you to where the money is and help you bite it back at the same time.

Pixi initiation ceremony

After you buy it back, make sure to blindfold it, and wait for the day when you want to open the light before you tear him open.

The items to be prepared on the day of enlightenment are:

1, seven precious stones

2, five grains of rice

3, five-color thread

4, the five emperor's money

5, bell

6, with a piece of red paper copied mantra

Pouring the first three into the belly of the brave, and then put the five emperor's money and the bell hanging on the top of the brave. On the top of the brave, then ready to read

Pixi enchantment incantation:

Golden light a gas, brave soaring, into the wealth into the noble, the road to prosperity

Golden light two gas, brave blessed to descend, blessed with wealth and fortune full of the family, blessed with the star in the sky

Golden light three gas, bravery pointing, the male NaBuFu, the female NaTianXiang

Qian, auspicious YuanHeng

Reading the incantation after the Put the mantra together into the brave belly, so the brave will have aura, until the gossip incense burner sandalwood incense burned out, you can put the brave on the cash register, or guest listening, the door or the entrance, and the most important thing is that the head of the brave must face the doorway, or out the window.

And enshrine the brave every day must point a roll of disk incense to it smell, or next to it set a cup of water can also be. So the brave only have the strength to find money for the owner.

Pixi pendant wear

1, with red rope on the wrist, neck.

2, with rootless water (rain) and river water to clean its body.

3, brave most favored by the Goddess of Mercy, so in front of the Goddess of Mercy burn incense to open the light (it is best to be able to put in front of the Goddess of Mercy on the 15th of each month to burn incense to pray for blessings).

4, brave can not touch its mouth, because the mouth with the money; can not touch its eyes, because the eyes of the treasure hunt.

Tapir Ping Zan

Bai Juyi's work "Tapir Ping Zan" (Changqing three years, about 823 A.D., appendix full text below)

Tapir, elephant-nosed rhinoceros eyes, ox-tailed tiger feet, born in the southern valley. I used to suffer from headaches, and every time I went to bed with a tapir, I used to sleep with it to ward off the plague. I was sick with headache, every sleep and rest, often with a small screen to guard its head. Appropriately met with the painter, and occasionally made to write. According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, this beast eats iron and copper, do not eat other things. Because of some confusion. So for the praise said:

Maoya its beast, born in the South. Its name is Tapir, non-iron does not eat. In the past, in the ancient times, the hearts of the people were loyal. The conquest of the order, from the Son of Heaven. Swords and halberds, copper and iron envy overflow. When the tapir was there, it ate all day long. Since the Three Dynasties, the king's law has been different. Fuse iron for soldiers, Fan copper for Buddha. Buddha is increasingly, the blade of the day. What mountain is not (yin: yang)? What valley is not co?o? There is no tsetse left. Woe to the Tapir, no one is discouraged. Woo-hoo! The sadness of the tapir, but the sadness of the time!

Recently, the most popular animal, is the cat and bear. In ancient China, it was also known as "tapir". And the literati depicted a lot of (Note: Taiping Yushan nine hundred and eight volumes, the beasts of the Department of twenty. There are many depictions by the literati (note: Taiping Yuban, vol. 908, Beast Part 20, has detailed information), but the most interesting and special one is Bai Juyi's "Tapir Screen Praise". The reason for this article is as follows: Bai Juyi originally had a headache and invited a painter to draw a picture of a cat and a bear on his screen. Why? Because it "sleeps on its side to ward off the plague, and draws its shape to ward off evil spirits". Its fur kept the body warm, and its image warded off evil spirits. Since then, the head is no longer suffering from the wind, so I wrote this "Tapir Screen Praise" to commemorate the occasion.

As for the content of the general idea: cats and bears eat iron to survive, since ancient times, the king has a way, not many weapons, copper and iron consumption is also small, cats and bears eat all day long, not also happy! Later, a large amount of copper and iron were cast into weapons and statues of Buddha. The cat and bear had to starve. Bai Juyi here on this lovely animal, reported to sympathize.

In fact, Bai Juyi's words have a hidden meaning: first, the depiction of "eating iron" in the Shanhaijing may not be entirely believable, so there is the phrase "due to some confusion". In addition, the use of copper and iron is also quite critical of the frequent wars, more and more weapons. People are afraid, the Buddha with the increase. But there is no plan to take away the paycheck, the emperor can love the people like a son, do not lightly start the war, how can there be copper and iron shortage of worry?