What do the top ten beasts in ancient China represent?

There are no real stories about the top ten beasts in ancient times, but some are just fabrications. There is no unified statement. The following is a systematic introduction to the four ancient Chinese god beasts: Qinglong, Baihu, Xuanwu and Suzaku. The four most terrifying and powerful beasts in ancient China were Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu. Qinglong is the God of the East; White tiger is the god of the west; Suzaku is the god of the south; Xuanwu is the god of the north, and the tortoise and snake are one. Therefore, there are "Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, Xuanwu and Tiansi Spirits, with the square as the square, and the king makes the palace pavilion and the palace pavilion." . Qinglong controls the power of lightning for nine days, the color is blue, belonging to wood, guarding the east, guarding the East Palace White Tiger controlling the power of tornado and storm (summoning all animals), the color is white, belonging to gold, guarding the West Palace Suzaku controlling the power of burning flame (three wonders of heaven and earth), and the color is red, belonging to fire, guarding the south and guarding the Nangong Xuanwu. 1 & gt； Qinglong: There are many legends about dragons, and there are also many sayings about the origin of dragons. Some said it was imported from India, while others said it was transformed from China. India itself is said by the dragon god, but the status of dragons in India is not high, and there is a real thing-python. In China, the dragon is sacred and supreme, a symbol of the emperor and a representative of the East. Among these 28 stars, seven stars in the east-Jiao, Kang, Bian, Fang, Xin, Wei and Ji-are used as stars. The ancients imagined them as Jackie Chan. Because it is located in the east, the five elements are colored according to yin and yang, and the east is blue, hence the name "Qinglong". The earliest dragon image of China was unearthed in the archaeological excavation of Xishuipo site in Puyang City, Henan Province. 1May 1987 to1September 1988, the cultural relics department excavated three groups of dragon and tiger patterns built with mussels during Yangshao culture in Xishuipo, southwest corner of Puyang County. Tomb No.45 in the first group has a male skeleton, which is 1.84m long, lying on his back with his head facing south and his feet facing north. On the right, Yi Long is made of clam shells, with its head facing north and east, its head held high, its back arched, its front paws leaning forward, its hind legs pedaling to the ground, and its tail swinging, which seems to roam at sea. On the left is a tiger made of clam shells, with its head facing north and west, its eyes wide open and its mouth wide open, like a tiger going down a mountain. This pattern is consistent with the black dragon in the East Palace and the white tiger in the West Palace in the four ancient astronomical phenomena. & lt2> White Tiger: The tiger is the leader of all animals. Its ferocity and legendary ability to subdue ghosts make it a beast belonging to Yang, and it often goes out with dragons. "Cloud follows dragon, wind follows tiger" becomes the best partner to subdue demons. It is transformed from seven nights among 28 western stars: Kui, Lou, Stomach, Ang, Bi, Dog and God. Therefore, it is the representative of the west, belonging to gold and white in the five elements, so it is a white tiger. In the eyes of the ancients, the tiger is a terrible thing and a respectable thing. The terrible thing is that it will eat people and animals. Respectably, it can ward off evil spirits because of its great power. In some ancient books, such as Ying Shao's Custom Yi Tong. Sacrifice in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "Draw a tiger on the door, ghosts dare not enter", "A tiger is a penis, and all animals are long. Can resist sharpness and eat ghosts. Today, people have to burn tiger skin to drink after they die. Beating its paws can also cure evil. This is also a fact. " The ancients also thought that the white tiger was an auspicious feeling:' virtue is a hundred birds and beasts.' And the white tiger is also the god of war and war. The white tiger has many magical powers, such as avoiding evil, avoiding disasters, praying and punishing evil, promoting good, making a fortune, and tying the knot. & lt3> Suzaku: The southern Seven Stars Well, ghosts, willows, stars, Zhang, wings and nets are combined into a bird shape, which is called Suzaku. Suzaku is like a phoenix, the god of the South. Because it looks like a bird, it is located in the south and has the property of fire, so it often appears in the form of a phoenix in the game. But in fact, Suzaku and Phoenix are two different creatures. Phoenix is the king of birds, but Suzaku is a spirit beast in the sky, which is rarer, nobler and more destructive than Phoenix. Because it is the length of' feather worm', the legendary dragon with the length of' scale worm' has gradually become a pair, one changeable and one beautiful, and it has become a complementary pair in folk customs. Moreover, because the dragon symbolizes the supreme Yang, the phoenix (the phoenix is the male and the female is the phoenix), which was originally divided into Yin and Yang, has gradually become the representative of pure Yin after being opposed to the dragon. & lt4> Xuanwu: Xuanwu is a kind of spiritual thing composed of turtles and snakes. Xuanwu, like other three spirits, is also derived from the 28 stars on earth: bucket, ox, female, air, danger, house and wall. Xuanwu originally meant Xuanming, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Ming are interlinked. Wu means black; Ghost means yin. At first, Xuan Ming described the turtle divination as follows: the turtle's back is black, and the turtle divination first invited the turtle to ask questions in the underworld, brought back the answers and showed them to the world in the form of divination. Therefore, the earliest Xuanwu is the tortoise. Zhu and Zhu said most directly and clearly that the Xuan is black, and turtles and witches are snakes. Since then, the meaning of Xuanming has been expanding. Turtles live in rivers, lakes and seas (including turtles), so Xuan Ming became a water god; The tortoise lives long, and Xuan Ming has become a symbol of immortality; It turned out that the underworld was in the north, and the divination of Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty was' its divination will be in the north', so Xuan Ming became a northern god again. The ancients explained Xuanwu like this. Xuanwu' is a tortoise. There are no real sayings about the top ten beasts in ancient times, and some are just fabrications. There is no unified statement. The so-called dragon gives birth to nine children, unlike the dragon. It's like this: the nine sons born by the dragon are on the sword of Longquan, and the demon's eldest brother (b?bāXià) is close to the second son/tail (ch ǐ w ě n/ch ǐ). The so-called "nine children born by the dragon" does not mean that the dragon happens to have nine children. In the traditional culture of China, nine represents a lot and has a supreme position. Nine is an imaginary number and an expensive number, so it is used to describe the dragon son. There is a long-standing saying that dragons have nine sons, but there has been no saying about which nine animals are, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that there were various opinions. There is a saying in the Collection of Huailu Hall written by Li Dongyang in the Ming Dynasty that "the dragon gave birth to nine sons". The nine sons of the dragon are: some sayings also include cicada's head, unicorn, roaring into the sky, and mythical animals as one of the dragons. 4. The five ancient Swiss beasts in China: dragon, phoenix, turtle, unicorn and beast (dragon has already mentioned the four beasts, and only the other four are introduced here).