China has a history of 5000 years. It not only has a profound historical and cultural heritage, but also has a variety of myths and legends in literary works, strange people and animals. Many mythical beasts in ancient legends have unimaginable abilities. They are powerful and powerful. The small editor of this article will take stock of the eight top divine beasts in ancient times. If you are interested in Chinese myths and legends and top divine beasts, come and have a look.
Top, 8 golden feather
In myths and legends, he has a terrorist force that can fight with God, and has practiced Taoism for thousands of years or even tens of thousands of years; The golden hair is the most powerful existence in the family. However, it is said that golden hair is the only zombie who has golden hair. Zombies don't rot after death. Their flesh and blood shrink into their bones. They begin to have tendons with white hair. After 500 years, the white hair turns black, another 500 years, the black hair turns yellow, and then 500 years, they become golden hair. When it was repaired to 1000 years, there was a sky thunder robbery, and almost all zombies were destroyed. Only when it was repaired that golden hair was not destroyed by sky thunder, it was golden hair. The golden hair is golden all over the body, but there is a little white hair on the neck, which is where the door is covered, that is, the weakness.
Top, 7 Kirin
Kirin is a god believed to exist in ancient China. Although there are not many stories about unicorn in many Chinese folklores, it really reflects its unique rarity and supernatural in people's life. From its external shape, it integrates lion head, antler, tiger eye, elk body, dragon scale and oxtail; The tail is hairy like a dragon's tail and has a horn with meat. However, it is said that the body of the unicorn is like a musk deer. It was regarded as a divine pet and benevolent pet by the ancients. Kirin lives long and can live two thousand years. It can spit fire and sound like thunder. " There are 360 hairy insects, and the unicorn is the longest '; In ancient times, the status of unicorn was at least the same as that of dragon, not lower than that of dragon.
Top, 6 snake
The snake, also known as Teng snake, is a flying snake in Chinese folklore. There are many records in this regard in ancient Chinese literature, called 'Divine beast', which has many representative meanings. In ancient Han mythology, the pet made by Empress Nuwa in her own image is a kind of snake that can fly in the clouds and fog and a fairy beast. The snake and the tortoise are often called together, so it is regarded as a part of Xuanwu. In Cao Cao's famous poem "although the tortoise lives", there is also "although the tortoise lives, there is still time". The snake rides the fog and ends up in dust. Moreover, there is another saying that the snake is an independent member of the five divine beasts, ranking in the center, and its color is still yellow.
Top, 5 tripod Jinwu
Three legged Jinwu, also known as' Fuwu 'and' Yangwu '; The ancestors of the three legged Jinwu are the Eastern Emperor Taiyi and Emperor Dijun, who were the top powers of the demon family in ancient times. The three legged Jinwu mentioned by later generations generally refers to the ten sons of emperor Dijun. For example, in the mountain and sea Sutra & middot; the great wilderness South Sutra, there is' Xihe, the wife of emperor Jun, born for ten days'; The book of mountains and seas & middot; overseas East Sutra says, 'there is Fusang in Tanggu. It is bathed in the north of Heichi on the 10th. Living in the water, there are big trees, living in the lower branch on the ninth day and the upper branch on the first day '; Wait, and the Lich war started because the great witch Dayi shot and killed nine three legged Jinwu.
Top, 4 basaltic
Xuanwu is also called xuanming. It is a combination of turtle and snake. It is the God of water. It lives in the North Sea. Turtles live a long life. Xuanming has become a symbol of immortality. The underworld is also in the north, so it is the God of the north. It is said that empress Nu Wa once killed a head of Xuanwu and made four pillars to support heaven and earth with her limbs, which shows the strength of Xuanwu; Moreover, Xuanwu can also ask divination through the underworld, so it is also known as Xuantian God and 'Zhenwu Emperor', which is the god worshipped by Taoism.
Top, 3 White Tiger
The white tiger has two wings on its back. It can fly between heaven and earth and has the highest lethality in the world. It is a famous super fierce beast in ancient times; After the disappearance of the white tiger family, the prophecy theory rose in the Han Dynasty, and its symbolic meaning was more military, Gengxin and righteousness. After the Han Dynasty, Taoism absorbed it as the God of Dharma protection, called the God of military supervision. Therefore, the later white tiger often symbolized the power and army, so many places named after the white tiger in ancient times were related to military affairs, such as the white tiger flag in the ancient army and the white tiger statue on the talisman. Moreover, there are many generals who are said to be the white tiger star of the world, such as Luo Cheng, Xue Rengui and others in the Tang Dynasty.
Top, 2 Phoenix
Phoenix, also known as the 'Phoenix Emperor', is the king of birds in ancient legends. The male is called 'Phoenix' and the female is called 'Phoenix', which is generally called Phoenix; There are five kinds of Phoenix, namely five phoenixes, Volume 10 of primary school cyan beads: 'the Phoenix is like five, and the Phoenix with five colors and red; Yellow babbler; The young Luan; The purple is the Zhuo, the white is the Swan '. Moreover, the Phoenix is also known as the 'immortal bird'. It is said that it will burn itself with wood every 500 years, and then get a new life in the flame and sublimate in this ordeal; Every nirvana, the Phoenix becomes more and more powerful, and the end is incomparably strong.
Top, 1 ZuLong
Although the dragon and Phoenix are equally famous, in the final analysis, the dragon family should be slightly better, especially the master of ten thousand Dragons - ZuLong. Before the Lich war, the gods and beasts had fought more ancient battles; In the early stage, the dragon family relied on their naturally strong body and was invincible without fear of ordinary attacks, while the Phoenix family relied on their natural regeneration ability. Although the Kirin family had no special ability, they multiplied rapidly and could barely maintain it.
But after a long time, the dragon family was slowly in decline. Because the dragon family's reproduction ability was too weak and the war casualties were heavy, coupled with the combination of Phoenix and Kirin, the dragon family was at a disadvantage in terms of number. Therefore, Zu long, the leader of the dragon family, decided to fight to the death and launched the last war. The war was dark and extremely fierce. Finally, they fell one after another and the battle spread widely, The desolate world was seriously damaged, there were no living creatures, and all kinds of ancient gods and beasts died out.