What are the names of all the sacred beasts in China?

China as a world-recognized ancient civilization, in the Chinese cultural heritage, the ancient period of myths and legends there are many kinds of mythical beasts, such as Bai Ze, kui, phoenix, unicorn, _ beasts, xiezhi, _, heavy bright bird, Bifang, Taotie, Phoebe, Zhugan, Chaos, Qingshi and so on. I'm sure many people are only heard of their names, and they don't know what they look like, and they don't know what they really are. The following is an introduction...?

1, Zhongshan Mountain God from Daughter Mountain to Jiachao Mountain **** sixteen mountains, 3,500 miles square. Its mountain gods are all horse-bodied and dragon headed gods. Also known as Zhongshan God. (Interpretation of the Nakajyuji Sutra? _Vicious (inuin) (ao yi) A man-eating giant beast of the Three Dangerous Mountains, looking somewhat like a bull, with four horns; its hair is so long that it resembles a straw raincoat draped over its body.? Predator (zheng) Zhang E Mountain, thousands of miles without grass and vegetation, more blue rock. There is a fearful beast in this mountain, with five tails and one horn, roaring like thunder splitting rocks, taking tigers and leopards as food.? The Compass Eagle (gu diao) is a man-eating beast of fear that resembles a bird but not a bird, and a leopard but not a leopard, with a single horn and a cry like a baby's.?

2, Di Jiang "Mountains and Seas Classic", Volume II, "West Mountain Scripture" cloud: "Another three hundred and fifty miles west said Tianshan, more gold and jade, there are green and male yellow, Ying water out of the country, and the southwest flow injected into the Tang Valley. There is a god bird, its shape such as the yellow sac, red as Dan fire, six feet and four wings, Hun Dun No face, is the knowledge of song and dance, real but also the emperor river." The meaning is that on the Tianshan Mountain in the west, there is a divine bird, shaped like a yellow cloth pocket, red like a ball of red fire, with six feet and four wings, no ears, eyes, mouth and nose, but knows how to sing and dance, and its name is "Dijiang". In addition, "Zhuangzi", "Divine Anomaly" recorded the monster is also called this name. The Yellow Emperor and the leader of the ****Gong clan were also called "Dijiang" in some records.

3, lift the father (ju fu) Chongwu mountain fear of beasts, good at throwing, tigers and leopards afraid of it.

4, civet force (li li) cabinet of the beast of fear of the mountains, looks like a pig, but the limbs have grown claws with serrated teeth. Where it is seen, the ground is undulating, so it is guessed that the civet force is good at digging.

5, nine-tailed fox "Qingqiu country in its north, its fox four feet nine tails." The Overseas East Classic "there is the country of Qingqiu, there are foxes, nine-tailed." The Great Wasteland Eastern Scriptures recorded in the history books, the nine-tailed fox accomplished "Dayu" and "Tushan's" good fortune, became the earliest "marriage intermediary" in the Chinese ancient books, the legend says that people can eat her meat, can not meet with the world, but to eat her. Legend has it that people who eat her flesh will be protected from evil spirits and resist parasites. The nine-tailed fox appeared three times in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and later became a symbol of auspiciousness and prosperity for future generations.

6, Jingwei, two hundred miles to the north, said Hatake of the mountains, on which more dead wood, there is a bird, the shape of which is like a crow, Wen head, white beak, red feet, the name is "Jingwei", its song from _. It is the maiden of Yan Di, called Nuwa. The maiden swam in the East China Sea, drowned and did not return, so she was called Jingwei, and she often took the wood and stones of the western mountains to close the East China Sea. The Zhangshui River, which flows eastward, flows into the river.

7. The god of Zhongshan Mountain is called Candle Yin (Candle Dragon). When Candle Dragon opens his eyes, the world is day; when Candle Dragon closes his eyes, the world is night; when Candle Dragon blows his breath, the world is winter; when Candle Dragon breathes his breath, the world is summer. The Candle Dragon never eats, never drinks, and has no breath. Once he exhales, the world is windy. His form was like a snake, his body was a thousand miles long, his face was like a man, and he was red all around.?

8, the ancient beasts of the four beasts: "Poor Qi" Chinese legend of good and evil evil god, it's the size of an ox, the appearance of a tiger, wearing a hedgehog's fur, wings, poor Qi's barking like a dog, rely on cannibalism for a living. It is said that Poor Ki often flies to the scene of a fight and bites off the nose of the one who has the right to fight; if someone commits an evil act, Poor Ki will capture a wild animal and give it to him, and encourage him to do more evil deeds. However, there is also a beneficial side to the Poor Ki. In a ritual called "Nuo" exorcism, there are twelve kinds of beasts that devour evil spirits, known as the twelve gods or twelve beasts, the poor is one of them.

9, the ancient beasts of the four beasts: "_ Beast" (tao wu) there is a beast, its shape like a tiger and canine hair, two feet long, human face, tiger feet, pig mouth teeth, tail length of eight feet, stirring up chaos in the wilderness, the name of _ Beast. It was used as a metaphor for people who were stubborn and had a vicious attitude. Legend has it that it is the son of Zhuan Xu, the northern emperor, and it also has the name Ao Vicious, difficult to train, and from these names, you can roughly deduce its behavior. The same as the poor Qi, _ Legend later also became one of the four evil.?

10, the ancient beasts of the four ferocious beasts: Chaos. Chaos is one of the four evils of the mythological creatures, according to the "Zuo Zhuan", the four evils are "Chaos", whose image is like a huge dog, "Taotie", whose head is like a goat and has eyes in its armpits, "Poor Qi", a tiger with wings, and "Poor Qi", whose head is a tiger and has legs, and "Poor Qi", a tiger with legs. The "____" is a tiger with wings, and the "____" is a man with a tiger's head and legs and boar's tusks.

11, the ancient beasts of the four beasts: "Taotie" (tāo tie) legend of Xuanyuan war Chiyu, Chiyu was decapitated, the head of the landing into Taotie. Mountains and Seas scripture has clouds, there are beasts, its shape like sheep body human face, its eyes in the armpit, tiger teeth and claws, its sound like a baby, the name is elk _, is cannibalism. There is also a legend for the "dragon born nine sons" of one of the nine sons... This seems to be the same beast that made him call me father.

12, the ancient beasts of the beasts: "White Zephyr" Kunlun Mountain on the famous beasts, snow white, can speak human language, through the feelings of all things, seldom out of the world, unless there is a saint to govern the world, only by the book. It is an auspicious beast that can make people turn bad luck into good fortune. Yellow Emperor cruised to the East China Sea, met, the beast can speak, up to the feelings of all things. Asked the world of ghosts and gods, since the ancient essence for the object, the wandering soul for the change of all one thousand five hundred and twenty kinds, white zephyr words, the emperor ordered to write in a picture, to show the world.

13, the unicorn is also known as "Ti Lin", referred to as "Lin", is a Chinese ancient records of an animal, with the phoenix, tortoise, dragon *** known as the "Four Spirits", is the god's The ancient people regarded the Qilin as a benevolent beast and a precious beast. The male is called Ki, the female is called Lin, and after Zheng He went to the West in the Ming Dynasty and brought the giraffe, it was used to refer to the giraffe (and still is in Japan). It is often used as a metaphor for an outstanding person.

14, the legendary _[Bai_ (xǐ)] (This is definitely not a traditional Chinese character! Then, he is far from Bai_(xianle) in the TV series "Spirit Pearl" ah. The TV series lied again! Then, legend has it that after Pangu opened up the sky and the earth, Nuwa was so lonely that she made man out of clay and also made pets that were the same snake god as herself. One was a white _ as a female; the other was a teng snake, as a male. When Nuwa's five-color stone was not enough, she used her body to mend the sky, and the White Snake and the Teng Snake also followed her to mend the sky. (Their appearance is similar to the picture above.)

15, green dragon. In China, the status of the dragon is much higher than in India. Because in China, the dragon is a god, is supreme, is also a symbol of the emperor. Is also a representative of the East, the five elements are wood, but also because of the green color is wood, so there is a left green dragon, right white tiger said. Star is used in the twenty-eight stars, the eastern seven hosts - angle, hyper, 氐、房、心、尾、箕, the ancients imagined them to be the image of the dragon, because it is located in the east, according to the five elements of yin and yang to the five sides of the color scheme, said the Oriental color green, so the name of the "Green Dragon". And there is a dragon sex sex _ said, and cattle cross with the unicorn, and pigs cross with the elephant. There is also a dragon born of nine sons, all do not look like the dragon said!

16, White Tiger. In China, the white tiger is the god of war and killing. The tiger has a variety of divine powers such as avoiding evil, avoiding disasters, praying for abundance and punishing evil, promoting goodness, becoming rich and wealthy, and being happy with a good relationship. And it is one of the four spirits, and of course | is turned from the star constellation. It is by the twenty-eight stars, the western seven hosts: Kui, Lou, stomach, Ang, Bi, the mouth, Sam. So it is the representative of the West, and its white, is because it is the West, the West in the five elements of gold, the color is white. So it is called the White Tiger not because it is white, but from the five elements.?

17, Vermilion Bird. In Chinese terms, it is a spirit that represents happiness. It has many kinds of original forms. Such as brocade chicken, peacock, eagle vulture, swan, Xuanbird (swallow) and so on.... It is also said to be the Buddhist roc goldfinch bird turned. The phoenix myth says that the phoenix has the head of a chicken, the chin of a swallow, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish, and has five colors. There are five varieties of phoenixes, divided by color: the red is the phoenix, the green is the luan, the white is the swan, and the yellow and purple phoenixes can be called the vermilion bird or the genet bird. Vermilion Bird is one of the four spirits, but also like the other three, it is from the stars, is the general name of the seven southern stars: wells, ghosts, willow, star, Zhang, wings, square. The association is Vermilion Bird. Zhu is red, like fire, and the south is fire, hence the name Phoenix. It also has the property of being reborn from fire, the same as the immortal bird in the West, so it is also called the Fire Phoenix.?

18, Xuanwu. It is a kind of spiritual creature which is a combination of a turtle and a snake. The original meaning of Xuanwu is Xuanmei, and the ancient sounds of wu and hei are connected. Wu, is the meaning of black; Underworld, is the meaning of Yin. XuanMei was initially a description of turtle divination: the turtle's back is black, and turtle divination is to invite the turtle to go to the underworld to ask the ____ first, and bring the answer back to the world in the form of divination signs. Therefore, the earliest Xuanwu was a tortoise. Later, the meaning of XuanMei is constantly expanding. Turtles live in rivers, lakes and seas (including sea turtles), so XuanMei became the god of water; tortoise longevity, XuanMei became a symbol of immortality; the first Hades is in the north, Yin Shang oracle bone divination that "its divination must be northward", so XuanMei became the god of the north.

19, beasts: "Lingshu" sharks, mermaids. There is a ling fish in the sea, with a human face and a fish body, with hands and feet, and a cry like that of a small child. Some ancient books call it a shark, some say it is a mermaid. There are several references to the mermaid in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, all of which say that it lives in mountain streams, and that the description may be a grass carp, i.e., a dollfish, not a mythical mermaid. And the mythological mermaid, probably and the West to see the mermaid should be a creature extinction.

20, fat legacy. The earliest record in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" of the Western Mountains in the scripture: Huashan there is a kind of snake called "fat legacy", once it appeared, it will be a prediction of a wide range of drought.

21, the beast: "horizontal male fish" was born in the stone lake, the lake constant ice. Seven or eight feet long, shaped like a carp and red, day in the water, night into a man. Stabbing is not, cooking does not die, to the plum two boiled will die, eat can but evil disease.

22, roar. Shaped like a rabbit, two ears pointed long, only a foot long. The lion is afraid of, cover roar drowning in the body is rotten.

23, Yinglong: an ancient legend of a winged dragon. According to legend, when Yu ruled the flood, there should be dragons to tail painting the ground into the river so that the water into the sea. 2. Ancient legend of the good clouds as rain God. 3.

24. chi dragon. There are two ways of saying: one says that one of the sources of the Chinese legend of the dragon. Also known as Chi tail, is a sea beast, Han Wu Di when someone advises, said chi dragon is water essence, can be fire prevention, it is recommended to be placed on the roof to avoid fire; two said the dragon nine children in the two children, the ancient book: "its two said chi, sex good hope, today's house on the head of the beast is also." (shape like a beast, habit good looking or good risk, become today's temple temple roof, hall tower pavilion and other high places of the dragon or house on the top of the beast, temple corner of the beast, can also pressure fire.) According to the above, the original form of chi dragon should be the gecko in our life. This kind of dragon is characterized by being scale-less and having fins.?

25, Jiaolong. Jiao, the genus of dragons. Pool fish, full of three thousand six hundred, jiao come for the long, can rate the fish fly set up in the water. Qiu Long, the ancient legend of a small dragon with horns without beard. Qu Yuan's "Heavenly Questions": "The dragon carries the bear". Song "Ruiying Tu": "Dragon horse god horse, the essence of the river also, eight feet and five inches high, long neck skeleton, on the wings, repair pendant hair, sound nine sounds. There is the Ming King then see." The gnarled dragon, on the other hand, is a legendary beast, "the divine horse," "a horse eight feet or more is a dragon," and "the two horns are gnarled."?

26, coiled dragon. Body length of four feet, greenish-black, red belt such as Jinwen, often with the water down into the sea. Poisonous, hurt people will die.

27, prisoner cattle. Dragon nine sons of the oldest, life love of music, it often squats on the head of the piano to appreciate the music of plucking strings pull, so the head of the piano will be engraved on the remains of its image. This decoration has been used down, some of the head of the expensive huqin is still engraved with the image of the dragon's head, called "dragon head huqin.

28, Jairbi (ya zi) dragon in the second of the nine children, is it flat body love to kill so more than in the weapon, used to threaten the enemy. At the same time and used in ceremonies, to appear more majestic.

29, mocking wind. The third of the nine sons of the dragon. Look like a dog, life is very dangerous.

30, Pu Jiao. Dragon nine sons of the fourth child, like to roar, people put it on the clock, mostly the image of Pujing. One said it lives in the sea, relatively timid, afraid of whales in the sea, once encountered will scream, so he was installed on the bell, and the horizontal wood of the battering ram is carved with the image of the whale ...... This one is so obscenely long...?

31, mythical beast (Suān ni) dragon nine children in the five children is shaped like a lion. It is a foreign product, with the Buddhism imported into China, so the character is a bit like the Buddha. It is good quiet, and love fireworks. So it is often placed on the Buddha's seat or incense burner, so that it can protect the Dharma for the Buddhists.?

32, Basha: also known as ___, six of the nine sons of the dragon, looks like a turtle. Legend has it that in ancient times it often carried three mountains and five mountains to make waves. 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 itself. Therefore, most of the stone monuments in China were carried by it.?

33, quodid (Bi'an) seven children of the nine sons of the dragon, also known as the Charter, looks like a tiger. According to legend, it presides over justice, and can be clear right and wrong, so it is placed in the prison door up and down, the door hall two, as well as the officials out on patrol when the solemn avoidance of the upper end of the card, in order to maintain the solemn atmosphere of the public ...

34, Jail (Bi'an) in the Dragon nine sons of the seven children, also known as the Charter, looks like a tiger.

34, negative _ (xi) dragon nine sons of the eight children, body like a dragon, elegant and good Sven, coiled around the head of the monument. Like a dragon shape, ranked the old eight, a life of good writing, the stone monument on both sides of the Wenlong is its remains.?

35, chi dragons (chī wěn) dragon in the nine children of the children, also known as scops owl, fish-shaped dragon. Legend has it that it was imported from India "Moju fish" along with Buddhism around the time of the North and South Dynasties. In the Buddhist scriptures, it is the object under the seat of the god of rain, capable of extinguishing fire. Therefore, chi dragons were changed from this, so it is mostly installed at the two ends of the roof ridge, for the effect of extinguishing the fire.

36, brave (pi xiu) legend of a ferocious beast, the origin of the saying is different. Pixi can swallow everything and never leak, so there is a meal of the four sides of the wealth of the symbolism. 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. The mount of the King of Tibet, the Shimeji, seems to be the same species as the braves.

37. One of the sacred beasts in ancient times, the False Attraction is an evil spirit that brings misfortune to people. Legend has it that the virtual consumption dressed in red robes, long bull nose, one foot wearing shoes on the ground, and fan video interaction Oh) the other foot hanging on the waist, waist also inserted an iron fan.

38, __ (ya yu) also known as "__ useless", an ancient legend of a man-eating monster, like __, tiger claws, running quickly. Legend has it that ___ was once a god of the sky and the son of Candlewick. There are many stories about the appearance of __, such as a human face with a dragon body and the size of a civet, or a human face with an ox body and horse legs, or a giant beast with a dragon's head and a tiger's body. It is said that because __ liked to eat humans, Emperor Yao ordered Hou Yi to kill him!

39, Paddy Viper. The actual writing is {insect eight} {insect summer}, pronounced eight down (bā f?), located on the side of the bridge favorite water, often decorated on the top of the stone bridge railing. In the back door of the bridge on the four corners of the lying pit vip, the shape is very beautiful, the legend of its image like a dragon is not a dragon, like a shrimp is not a shrimp, the most favorite water in his life, living with the water. It loves the wave of joy to get water, playing in the river for years and years, also known as sail centipede, trespassing water, like to eat water demon, said to be the Dragon King's favorite son.

40, bane bucket. The appearance is no different from that of an ordinary dog. However, its hair throughout the body is black and glows with a special luster. There are a few Bane Doo that have an open fork at the tip of the tail, and other than that, there is nothing peculiar about it. In fact, you can't detect anything unusual in their appearance based on looks alone. But that doesn't stop them from serving as the Vulcan's assistants, and sometimes when the Vulcan leaves his post for some reason, the Bane Doo even has to take over the god's duties.?

41, G蜚. Out of Mount Tai, looks like a bull, white head, one-eyed, serpent-tailed, ancient beast of pestilence.?

42, Hwa-snake. This is a human face jackal body, back wings, walking like a snake, coiled writhing monster. Its voice is like a baby crying loudly, and like a woman scolding. The serpent seldom opens its mouth to pronounce words, but when it does, it invites a torrential flood. It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Zhongji Erjing). It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Period, a farmer heard a baby crying near the city of Daliang in the State of Wei, and when he found it, he discovered that it was a serpent-shaped demon. Three days after that, the Yellow River did flood, inundating more than eight hundred and fifty towns and villages along the way.

43. Ying Zhuo. A man with a horse's body, a tiger's tattoo, a bird's wing, and a voice like a pomegranate. Claimed to be a god who looks after gardens for the Heavenly Emperor, but appears to be at best a divine beast. It is contained in the Shanhaijing (Western Subtitle of the Three Scriptures).?

44. Three-footed Wu. Ancient Chinese sun spirit, also seen as the messenger of the sun's operation. Ancient Chinese legend has it that the sun inhabits the three-legged crow, people 4 worship the sun, the three-legged crow is also worshipped as a symbol of auspiciousness. It is said that because the three-legged crows, of which there are ten in a ****, were constantly orbiting in the sky, the earth suffered from drought and scorching heat. Emperor Yao ordered Hou Yi to shoot all the three-legged crows, and he ended up shooting down nine of them, leaving one behind, and since then there has only been one sun and it sets in the evening. It is also said that the three-legged crows were spirits serving the Queen Mother of the West.

45, [kui] (kui) The Classic of Mountains and Seas - The Great Desert Classic records: in the East China Sea, there is the Liu Bo Mountain, which enters the sea for 7,000 kilometers. There is a beast on it, the shape of a cow, pale body and no horns, a foot, in and out of the water must be wind and rain, its light such as the sun and moon, its sound like thunder, its name is Kui. The Yellow Emperor got it, with its skin as a drum, pegged to the bone of the thunder beast, the sound of 500 miles, to the world. Legend has it that there is a "Liubu Mountain" on the East China Sea, on which Kui lived. Kui's body and head resembled those of a bull, but he had no horns and only one leg, and his body was greenish-black in color. It is said that the kui put out as the sun and moon like light and thunder-like scream, as long as it is in and out of the water, will certainly cause a storm. In the Yellow Emperor and Chi You war, the Yellow Emperor captured the Kui, with its skin to make drums, with its bones as drumsticks, the results of the drum hit the sound can be spread all over the circumference of 500 miles, so that the Yellow Emperor's military morale, the Chi You army was horrified. Kui and heaven and earth with the world there are only three above is the first The second is the Qin Shi Huang killed But Qin Shi Huang did not have the Yellow Emperor's feats So this Kui's skin made of drums is not so magical.?

After reading this, you'll realize that all those dragons and monsters abroad are just minor characters, and our 5,000 years of traditional culture blows away the foreigners! But there are still a lot of beasts not listed, after all, Chinese civilization has a long history.

References

The complete list of ancient Chinese mythical beasts! Finally found it all! ... Iron Blood Military Network[cited 2018-3-31]