Longfeng culture Longfeng is a different species. How did the ancients in China match together?

Among the traditional auspicious patterns in China, the dragon and phoenix are very beautiful. In the picture, the dragon and the phoenix live in half. The dragon is a rising dragon. Open your mouth and turn around and look back at the phoenix. Phoenix is a auspicious peak, spreading its wings and raising its tail, looking up at the dragon. There are many clouds around, and there is a peaceful atmosphere.

Why do dragons and phoenixes cooperate and appear accordingly?

A "dragon and phoenix pattern" painted pottery flask was unearthed from Yangshao cultural site in Beishouling, Baoji, Shaanxi. This precious cultural relic shows that both dragons and phoenixes originated in the Neolithic Age 7000-8000 years ago, and they were synchronous.

As a long and rich cultural phenomenon, both dragons and phoenixes are the marks, emblems, signs and symbols of the Chinese nation. If the traditional cultural symbols of the Chinese nation are ranked according to their functions and effects, the dragon will undoubtedly occupy the first place, and then the second place is the Phoenix.

Dragon is a kind of deity produced by the ancient people's vague collection of fish, crocodiles, snakes, pigs, horses, cows and other natural phenomena such as clouds, thunder and lightning, rainbows and so on. Reptiles and mammals are the main collection objects of dragons. Therefore, the dragon is often called "the head of scales" and "the king of beasts".

Phoenix is a kind of god produced by the ancient people's fuzzy collection of many kinds of birds and some stray animals. Birds with wings are the main gathering objects of Phoenix, so Phoenix has ascended the throne of "the leader of feather family" and is known as "the king of birds".

The dragon has the divinity of loving water, flying, flying, fickle, supernatural, auspicious, ominous and demonstrative.

Phoenix has such gods as love of fire, sunshine, virtue, auspiciousness, loftiness, Shang Jie, beauty and metaphor.

The complementarity and correspondence of divinity combine dragons and phoenixes: one is the king of beasts and the other is the king of birds; Change into the sky, change into magic, change into elegance, change into beauty, change into auspiciousness; When a good relationship of mutual assistance and cooperation is established between them, there will be "dragon and phoenix dance" and "dragon and phoenix become auspicious".

Phoenix is mainly made of birds. Most birds like warmth and sunshine. Therefore, Phoenix is also known as "Sun Bird", "Yang Bird" and "Fire Spirit", and the so-called "Feng Dan is facing the sun", "Feng Ming Chaoyang" and "Fire Phoenix".

In this way, from the Neolithic Age to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements prevailed, most of the phoenix appeared as a "penis".

Dragons, however, are mostly "water objects", "water beasts" and "water elephants", so they are basically "yin" in the initial stage of formation.

The coordination, combination and correspondence between dragons and phoenixes embody the ancient concept of Yin and Yang.

Unearthed jade ornaments and Yu Pei in Shang Dynasty and Warring States Period, some dragons hold the phoenix, some are under the phoenix, and some are the same as the dragon and phoenix, indicating that people realized at that time that Yin and Yang are different, relative and related, and no one can live without each other.

Dragons have all kinds of gods, which can be summarized in one word, that is, "power", the "power" of power.

Phoenix also has various gods, which can be summarized in one word: beauty, beauty and beauty.

The dragon is a symbol of strength, and the phoenix is a symbol of beauty. The combination of dragon and phoenix is the combination of strength and beauty; The correspondence between dragon and phoenix is the correspondence between strength and beauty.

Without the phoenix, the dragon is a lonely dragon; Without dragons, Phoenix is a sad phoenix. Dragons are born of strength, and phoenixes are born of beauty. The strength of the dragon provides support and destination for the beauty of the phoenix, and the beauty of the phoenix provides a goal for the strength of the dragon, adding a particularly charming style.