What is pepper?

Horn soil is a god beast in the Forbidden City, with a snail-like shell on its back.

Pepper is shaped like a snail. When foreign enemies invade, people always close their shells tightly. People use it on the door, in addition to "closing the door" for peace, but also because of its ferocious face, it shoulders the heavy responsibility of guarding the door and guarding evil spirits.

Another reason is that the scorched earth is "quiet" and loyal to its duties, so it is often decorated as a hoop beast or a stone drum on the gate to take care of the safety of the family, which is called "gentleness" by the people.

Extended data

During the formation of the dragon image, many strange animal images appeared. Later, these monsters combined some characteristics of the dragon with the development of the image of the dragon, forming a different view that the dragon gave birth to nine sons.

Dragon's nine sons are Pappa, Mockingwind, Swallow, Spindle, Pepper Map, Kiss, Bran, Sister-in-law and Prison Bull. But in the folklore of the Han nationality, the number of dragons is far more than that, and they are all said to be sons of dragons.

The so-called dragon gave birth to nine children, not that the dragon happened to give birth to nine children. In the traditional culture of Han nationality in China, nine is the most important symbol, an imaginary number and an expensive number, so it is used to describe the dragon son.