Yu No.: East China Sea sea god, human face, bird body, ear hanging two yellow snakes, foot on two yellow snakes.
Yujing: Yuji's son, a bird with a human face, two green snakes in his ears and two red snakes on his feet. He is the god of wind and the god of the North Sea.
Drought : The god of heat, dressed in green clothes, wearing a green handkerchief on his head, with a cold face. Pictures look like old monkeys. The gender is female.
Zhu Rong : God of fire, with an animal body and human face, riding two fire dragons.
**** Gong: water god, snake body, human face, red hair, riding a black dragon. He is the grandson of Zhu Rong.
Hou Tu: the god of earth.
Choking: the god of time.
Jumang: the god of wood, also known as Chong, with bird face and body, riding two dragons.
Shentian and Yubi: gods of the underworld, living in Tao Du Mountain in the East China Sea.
Bu Ting Hu Yu: the god of the South China Sea.
Candle Yin: the god of Zhongshan.
Ditai: the god of Zhongshan. He led the land of Zhongshan.
Queen Mother of the West: a person with a leopard's tail and tiger's teeth, with a jade victory carefully pinned on her disheveled head. Great God, living in the West of the Jade Mountain.
Ying Zhuo: human face and horse body, back long wings, the body of the tiger pattern.
Luwu: Kunlun Mountain God, human face and tiger body with nine tails.
Enlightened Beast: Kunlun Mountain God, body like a giant tiger, nine heads, each head has a human face.
Li Zhu: God of the Kunlun Mountains. The eyes are the brightest.
Changxian: God of the Winning Mother Mountain.
Di Jiang: God of the Heavenly Mountain, six-legged, four-winged and headless.
Yaoshui: a bull-like god with eight legs and a horse's tail, two heads, and a voice like a trumpet; wherever he appears, there will be war.
Bai Ze: A divine beast that describes eleven thousand five hundred and twenty kinds of weird and wonderful things in heaven and earth.
Chi: A man with bull's hooves, four eyes and six hands, a head with firm horns, hairs standing straight up like swords beside the ears , and feeds on sand, stone and money.
Demons: Demons are four-legged monsters with the body of a beast and face, and they are charming with their soft voice.
The evil spirit is an animal with one leg and one hand, and it can yawn to make people fall asleep.
Sprites: like three-year-old dolls, black and red, long ears and red eyes, long black hair, can be charming with a child's voice.
Feng Bo Fei Lian (风伯飞廉): a deer with a sparrow's head, a sharp horn on its head, a leopard's tattoo on its body, and a tail like a yellow snake.
The Rainmaker's Cataract: shaped like a seven-inch silk worm, with scaly wings on its back.
Kui Niu: a bull without horns, gray body and one foot, in and out of the sea, must be accompanied by a big storm, eyes as bright as the sun and the moon, roar like thunder shocked heaven and earth.
Thunder Beast: dragon body and head, belly as big as a drum, every since the beat belly, will release thunder.
The Fat Legacy: a six-legged, four-winged serpent, when people see it soaring in the sky, a terrible drought occurs on the ground.
Eurycoma: A bull-shaped tiger-spotted snake with a sound like a human moan, when it appears, there will be a great flood.
Gossip : A cow-shaped white head with one eye and a tail like a snake; it passes through water and water dries up, and through grass and grass withers. When it appears there will be a great plague in the world.
Bi Fang Bird : Like a crane, with a green body and white beak, red markings, and one foot; wherever it appears, a strange fire breaks out.
The Sour and the Bird: like a snake, with four wings and six eyes, and three feet; wherever it is seen, there is a panic.
The Five-Colored Bird of Xuan Dan Mountain: human face with long hair, wherever it inhabits, there will be a calamity of the death of the country.
The Monstrous Beast that Eats People
Zhi Huai: four horns, big ears like a cow, and a strange shaped mouth.
Roe deer osprey: like a big dog with long legs and eyes behind the front feet.
Poor Qi: ox-shaped red body, human face and horse feet, called like a baby crying monster. (Related to the Yellow Emperor)
Floating: human face, animal body with wings, clad in red hair, often floating on the water, good wind and waves.
Xiangliu: a nine-headed monster, after the end of the fourth war in the heavenly realm with the **** workers do not know where to go.
Teng Snake:
Chiseled Tooth: A monster with a human body and animal head, and a six-foot-long chiseled blade-like sharp teeth in its mouth.
Xiu Snake: also known as Ba Snake, a hundred feet long, with a black body and green head, a mouth that can swallow an elephant.
Qiangliang: Holding a snake in his mouth and a snake in his hand, with a tiger's head on his body and very long hands.
Day Whirlwind: long lived in the heart of the earth fiery rock, violent and vicious, body like the hot sun brake white, footprints everywhere, cracking the ground
Scorched earth. Group fire in the ferocious awn.
Furthermore, the fox is cunning and possessive, and the yellow fire can ossify all life. It represents the confusion of the fire.
Shangjian: A gluttonous eater who can swallow heaven and earth. His mouth spews corrosive violet light, which can dissolve hard minerals and gold. It represents the greed of the fire.
Osmanthus: a cynical, ferocious outbreak of green fire, vaporizing clouds and mist, damaging the world drought for years. It represents the fire of anger.
Jinao: amphibious, attribute cold, deep blue light can freeze everything into ice. It represents the icy cold of the fire.
Phasianus: madness and delusion, the fire is pervasive and can cause a volcanic disaster, causing the destruction of life. It represents the wild flames of fire.
Pixi: murderous and brutal, eyes shine red, high heat makes everything into ashes. It represents the light of blood in the fire.
Wei Cui: Born in the darkness, he hates the light, and his dark and evil aura eats up the light of the sun and the moon, covering the sky and the earth. It represents the darkness of the fire.
Cunning Geibikei: A spiteful and vicious character, he takes pleasure in destroying all the beauty in the world, and his blue fire can scorch the earth for thousands of miles. The blue fire can scorch the earth for thousands of miles.
Add one more: fruity.
Beasts whose calls sound like "fruitful" are very kind-hearted, and will stay by the side of their companions and cry when they see their corpses, a trait that is often used by human beings to trap them. --From "The Mirror's Edge"
The Dragon's Nine SonsAncient folklore has the legend of "The Dragon's Nine Sons, not a dragon, each one is good". But what are the nine sons, the argument is different. China's auspicious illustration" said: nine sons of the oldest called prisoner cattle, like music, squatting in the head of the piano; the oldest two called Jairus (ya zi), killing like fighting, engraved in the knife ring, hilt of the sword to swallow the mouth; the oldest three called mocking the wind, a life of risk, the temple corner of the beasts is the legacy of its image; the fourth son of Puchong, struck by a loud roar, acting as a beast of Honfeng bells to mention the beam of the knob to help their voices far away; the fifth son of mythical geibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibeibe (suan ni), shaped like a lion, like smoke good sitting, leaning on the incense burner foot. The sixth son, Bi Xi (Bi xi), resembles a tortoise with teeth and likes to carry heavy loads. The seventh son, Quodid (Bi Gan), resembles a tiger and likes to litigate, and there are statues of him on both sides of the main hall of the prison or the government office. Both ends of the ridge swallowing beasts, take its fire extinguishing and eliminating disasters.
"Huailutang set": "Dragon born nine sons do not become a dragon, each good. Jairus (睚眦), who was good at killing, the dragon swallowing the mouth on the hilt of the sword is his portrait; Mocking phoenix (嘲凤), who was good at danger, the beast at the corner of the hall is his portrait; Pugong (蒲牢), who was good at singing, the beast on the bell is his portrait; Mythical beast (狻猊), who was good at sitting, the lion on the seat of the Buddha is his portrait; Baxi (霸下) also known as Bi Tuo (屃) was good at carrying loads and the animal on the tablet is his portrait; Quodid (狴) is a kind of animal that can carry heavy weights; Quodemus is a kind of animal that can be used for extinguishing fire and preventing disasters; and Quodemus is a kind of animal that can be used for extinguishing fire and preventing disasters. Quodid (狴) is a man who was good at litigation in his life. The lion's head on the gate of the prison is his statue; Bi Xi (赑屃) is a man who was good at writing in his life. The dragon on both sides of the stele is his statue; and the scops owl (鸱吻) is a man who was good at swallowing in his life. The head of the beast on the spine of the temple is his statue.
"The gods from the" book said the "Shengan outside the collection" recorded nine sons of the dragon is: quality, shaped like a tortoise good weight, that is, the monument under the turtle; chi dragons, shaped like a beast, sex is good to look forward to, standing ridge; Taotie, good food, standing tripod cover; centipede, good standing, standing bridge; pepper figure, like snail mussel, sex is good to close the door at the head of the; Jin Geibei, shaped like a lion, good fireworks, standing in the incense burner; plus Pujiao, quodid, Jairus three, just for the dragon! The nine sons of the dragon.
Perhaps the so-called nine sons of the dragon, not the dragon happened to have nine sons. Ancient Chinese traditional culture, often to nine to indicate that very much, and there is a supreme position. Nine is an imaginary number and a noble number, so it is used to describe the dragon's son. Putting it all together
Jiu Niu: In the shape of a small yellow dragon with scaly horns, good at music. This musical dragon is not only on the Chinese huqin, but also on the Yi dragon's moon zither, the Bai's three-stringed zither, and some Tibetan musical instruments, with its head and mouth open.
Gui Tuo: (赑屃), a powerful animal that carries heavy loads on its back, is the stone tortoise that is carved under the stele today.
Chi Kui: (音吃吻), also known as scops owl, scops owl, good-looking, etc. The shape is like a four-legged snake cut off. Shaped like a four-legged snake cut off the tail, this dragon is good in the dangerous place looking around, also like to swallow fire. Legend has it that when Emperor Wu of Han built Pak Leung Hall, someone said that there is a fish in the sea, gnarled tail like a scops owl, that is, the harrier eagle, can spray waves of rain, can be used to anorexia fire, and then molded its image in the temple corner, the temple ridge, the roof above .
Taotie (sound Tao post), shaped like a wolf, good diet. Bell tripod Yi more carved on the shape of its head as a decoration. Because Taotie is a particularly gluttonous beast of legend, people will be greedy for food and even greedy for property people called Taotie. The taotie also appeared on Shang and Zhou bronzes as a patterned animal face decoration called taotie. Because of its ability to drink water, it was also decorated on bridge railings to prevent the bridge from being flooded by heavy water.
Jair (sound teeth from), looks like a jackal, good fishy kill. Often carved on the hilt of the sword scabbard. The original meaning of Jair is to stare angrily, "a meal of virtue will be paid, Jair's grudge will be avenged".
Quodid (sound Bi Gan), also known as the Charter. Looks like a tiger, powerful, and good prison matters, the most hate the criminal, so often decorated in the lintel of the prison.
Mythical Geibi (狻猊) is also known as Geibi (金猊) and Geibi (灵猊). Mythical Geibi is an alias for lion, so it is shaped like a lion, good for fireworks, and good for sitting. It can be seen on the Buddha's seat and incense burner in temples. The lion, an animal that dares to eat even tigers and leopards and has a dignified appearance, was introduced to China with Buddhism. Because Buddha Shakyamuni has "fearless lion" metaphor, people will be arranged into the Buddha's seat, or carved on the incense burner to let it enjoy the incense.
The party pit viper (sound eight summer) is located in the bridge favorite water, often decorated in the stone bridge railings at the top. In the back door of the bridge on the four corners of the lying pit vipers, modeling is very beautiful.
Pepper Figure, shaped like a snail clam, snail clam encountered foreign aggression, always close the mouth of the shell. People use it on the door, probably because it can be tightly closed to the meaning of security.
Pu Juan, shaped like a dragon but smaller than the dragon, good sound. It is said that Pujuan lived in the sea, usually the most afraid of whales. Whenever the whales attacked, Pujuan would scream. So, people put his image on the bell and carved the long wood of the bell into the shape of a whale to hit the bell, in order to make his voice loud and bright.
Pixi, also known as the sky Lu, dragon head, horse body, Lin feet, this beast is divided into female and male, male for the "Pi" female for the "brave". Pixi body hairless, no scales, no asshole, so there is "only in and out" said, brave head born unicorn and double horns, formidable appearance, ferocious and unusual, like to suck the blood of the devil and monster, and transformed into wealth. Therefore, the feng shui art will be done to ward off evil spirits, Pixi as a house, wealth gathering spirit widely used. Pixi is to wealth as food, all the four sides of the effect of wealth.
In ancient times, this beast is divided into a corner or two horns, a corner of the "evil spirits", two horns of the "Tianlu", and then after the dynastic transformation is not divided into a corner, or, two horns. Most of them are mainly in one corner. Pixi's form is relatively uniform, such as short wings, double horns, curly tail, mane and beard often connected with the forehead or backbone, protruding eyes, long fangs, etc. Passed down to the more common now Pixi more than a single horn, long tail. Pixi body long mane curled up, have two wings (meaning "soaring"). Tail hair tendrils, body back Yuan Bao, bats, (meaning "all over the world is lucky"). Those with flames (meaning "red-hot"). There are also banana fans, chi dragons, ten thousand year old turtles and so on.
Okinawa is a small insect that likes to carry things on its back. When it encounters something while walking, it picks it up. Carrying it on his back with his head held high. It gets heavier and heavier on its back and doesn't stop even though it's tired. Its back is so rough that it can't carry things, and finally it falls down and can't get up. Some people take pity on it and help it get rid of its things. Once they are able to walk, they bring it back on their backs as before. Also like to climb high, not until the strength to the limit does not stop, until the fall and die.
Horn end (sound Lu Duan) is the legend of the auspicious animals, one-horned, 18,000 miles a day, know the language of the four barbarians, for the auspicious objects, but also means to protect and assist the monarch of the meaning. Therefore, in the emperor's office where there is often a corner of the end of the display. Ancient incense burner is common.
Suzhou has an ancient town - angle straight. In the center of the square of the ancient town stands a sculpture of a one-horned monster "horn end". Legend has it that this beast can ward off evil spirits and suppress the wind, cornering the people on one side. When the Ming Dynasty gathered the village for the town, then take its auspicious, more town name angle straight.
The following picture is the Forbidden City during the Ming Wanli years of the production of the corner of the incense burner, the production is extremely gorgeous. Horn end of the head, one-horned, two eyes open, two ears, mouth slightly open, for the purpose of spreading the incense, four claws for the foot for the upright, rounded pendant tail, the foot of the foot on the silk enamel snake. The whole body decorated with soybean green enamel, with red, yellow, blue, white and other colors of enamel filled with patterns. The head at the end of the horn can be lifted to hold incense.
Think about the beast is not just know a name even if, it is best to say that the specific origin and allusion, as well as related decorative artifacts. Because the beast is often appear in the artifacts and objects. It is best to speak with the history and culture and cultural relics, which is the essence of culture.
Also want to slowly at the same time combined with the sacred beasts to introduce some cultural relics and historical knowledge, such as bik, chong, ring, gui, zhang, penannular jade ring, Juan, bodkin, pei, amber, Meimei, jade plugs, trigger finger, hairpins, pearl, comb, jade book, tripods, jue, zun, wine containers, goblet, gui, fiancée, as well as seals, kissing beasts and so on.
I found the information now, and I hope that those who know it can tell us more about it. These things are the treasures of Chinese civilization, so that the heritage of history, now being slowly forgotten and lost.
1. scops owl (dragon), like to look around, so in front of the eaves. Legend has it that "the dragon has nine sons" of a "dragon son", about this dragon son, since ancient times there are various legends. One said that because of this dragon lives in the South China Sea, can spray waves into the rain, so it will be decorated in the roof at both ends of the ridge, take the meaning of the town fire; two said that the beasts at both ends of the ridge is commonly known as "swallowing the ridge beasts", its appearance like a dragon is not a dragon, face in, opened its mouth as if it were going to swallow the entire ridge of the temple. It is also inserted on the back of a sword, only the hilt exposed outside the body. Why is this? It is said to be because of this dragon son "AWOL", fled back to the South China Sea and died, after the death of the town in the ridge; three said that the Dragon King passed the throne to the eldest son, but, after the death of the Dragon King, the oldest two and the oldest competing for the throne, who refused to give up, how to do it? The two brothers finally agreed to swallow a ridge to determine the winner, the winner is the king. The oldest knows that the martial arts is not as good as the oldest, but also afraid of being taken away from the throne, the heart of a cross and pulled out the sword while the oldest swallowed the ridge, from the back of the vicious stab down, the oldest nailed on the ridge.
It is also said that the scops owl's back to insert a sword, is Xu Xun (239-374 AD, Jin Taoist priest. Word Jingzhi, RuNan people, live in NanChang, study in WuMeng, after the filial piety Lian, was JingYang county magistrate, sense of jin room beams chaos, abandoned the official east, travel rivers and lakes, the legend of the eastern Jin NingKang two years in NanChang west mountain lifting the family of forty-two mouth pulling house ascension. Song Dynasty as "Shen Gong Miao Ji Zhenjun", the world called Xu Zhenjun or Jingyang) of the sword. The sword of Xu Xun was inserted on the back of the scops owl for two purposes. One is to prevent the scops owl to escape, take the meaning of its always spraying water to suppress the fire; another legend is that those demons and monsters are most afraid of Xu Xun fan-shaped sword, here to take the intention of avoiding evil spirits.
2. The phoenix symbolizes a person of honor and virtue. According to "The Records of the Grand Historian", "The phoenix does not flock with sparrows and swallows." The phoenix is a symbol of auspiciousness and a substitute for the Empress.
3. Lion, representing courage and majesty. According to the Record of the Transmission of the Lamp, "The lion roars: 'In heaven and on earth, I am the only one'. The lion makes a roar, the beasts are deterred."
4. Heavenly horse, symbolizing the mighty virtue through the sky and into the sea, unimpeded in all directions.
5. Hippocampus, symbolizing the mighty virtue that passes through the sky and enters the sea and reaches all directions.
6. Mythical Geibi, recorded in ancient books, is a beast of the same kind as the lion, but also said to be one of the nine sons of the dragon. Legend has it that it can eat tigers and leopards, and has the meaning of rate from all beasts.
7. Apu, a beast of the sea, is said to be the god of cloud and rain, fire and disaster prevention.
8. Xiezhi, a beast of ancient legend, similar to the lion. Legend has it that it can distinguish between right and wrong, has a single horn, and is also known as the divine goat, a symbol of courage and justice.
9. Bullfighting, the legend is a gnarled dragon, according to the "Chenqi Zhiliu": "West Inner Sea in the Bullfighting ...... in the rain for the clouds and fog, often meandering alongside the road and the Jin'ao Yudong Fang above." Legend has it that it is a kind of Xingyun for rain, town fire and disaster prevention auspicious objects.
10. rows of Shi (sound Hang ten), the introduction of ancient architectural information on the origin of this beast is more incoherent, so I can only find a little roughly.
The line of a kind of winged monkeys, back wings, holding a vajra mortar and pestle, the legend of the mortar and pestle has the effect of subduing the devil. Because of the tenth in line, so the name "Xingshi". It resembles the legendary Lei Gong, and is probably a symbol of lightning protection. Ancient buildings on the ridge beast, visible rows only one, is in the Hall of Supreme Harmony.
But from 1998 to start excavating the Yuan Dynasty in the ruins, the unearthed ridge especially to a "line Sh" look forward to, it wore a round lace cap on its head, sharp mouth, monkey cheeks, chest and belly, back wings, hand by the mortar and pestle. Exposed upper body set a loose shoulder, solemn eyes lock eyebrows, naive and charming. Description of this kissing beast has long been circulating.