What color is Kirin in ancient legend?

Kirin in ancient legend is golden yellow.

Kirin, also known as "Kirin" or "Lin" for short, is an animal in the ancient legend of China, which is also called "four spirits" with phoenix, turtle and dragon. Known as the sacred beastmaster. It is the mountain of God.

The man's name is Qi and the woman's name is Lin. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there was a legend of Kirin in China. The most detailed record is the book Justice in Shi Mao, which says: "forest, moose, horseshoe, oxtail, yellow hair, round hoof and horn meat."

Legend has it that Kirin is a virtuous and kind beast, gentle in character, without insects or grass, with horns on its head and raw meat on its horns. Therefore, emperors of all dynasties loved Lin and regarded its appearance as the Chery of the country to show their imperial power and their clarity.

Extended data:

Kirin allusion: the western expedition won the forest.

"Hunting in the Western Expedition" took place in the year of Gengshen in 39, Zhou (the 14th year of the Spring and Autumn Period), and Confucius' book Spring and Autumn Period was published in this year. At this time, Confucius was seventy-one years old and had stopped writing books.

According to legend, in 55 BC1year (in the 22nd year of Lu Aigong), Yan Zai, the mother of Confucius, was pregnant, prayed at Niqiu Mountain and met Kirin to give birth to Confucius. When Confucius was born, his head looked a bit like a mud hill, so he was named Zhong Ni, the word Kong Qiu. Confucius was born in the forest and died in it. He thought it was ominous and immediately wrote an elegy for Kirin.

Because of the anxiety of Confucius and the premature death of his only son, Kong Li, he was very sad and finally died in Lu Aigong in the sixteenth year (479 BC). After the death of Confucius, the story of winning Lin Daizuo was widely circulated.

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