What are white tigers and green dragons?

White tiger and blue dragon are four legendary beasts in China. Left blue dragon and right white tiger rise above Suzaku and descend to Xuanwu.

China's four great beasts:

The four great beasts are the legendary beasts in ancient China, namely, Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu, which belong to the combination of ancient mythology and astronomy. Four kinds of animals are represented by different colors: oriental cyan is wood, western white is gold, southern red is fire, northern black is water, and middle yellow is earth. In addition, Huainanzi mentioned that Huanglong, one of the five dragons, is in the middle, which is the length of four beasts.

Qinglong:

Origin:

Qinglong originated from the worship of stars in ancient times. In ancient China, the stars in the sky were divided into seven star zones: Three Walls and Four Elephants. "Three Walls" is the "Wei Zi Wall", symbolizing the palace; "Taiweiyuan" symbolizes the administrative organization; The "sky wall" symbolizes the bustling market. These three walls are arranged in a triangle around Polaris. There are four elephants around the three walls: East Black Dragon, West White Tiger, South Suzaku and North Xuanwu. In other words, the stars in the East are like a dragon. As the earth revolves around the sun, the stars in the sky change with the seasons. Every evening at the turn of winter and spring, the black dragon appears.

The dragon is the seven lodges in the East-horn, horn, fork, room, heart, tail and dustpan. These seven lodges are all shaped like dragons. From their meanings, we can see that the horn is the dragon's horn, the horn is the neck, the fork is the root, the room is the arm, the threat, the heart is the heart, and the tail is the tail.

There is still a part of the dragon's heart, which some people call "fire", which is related to sunny and rainy days, and because Qinglong is a wood, it is also the age of Jupiter. After the rise of Taoism, these four spirits were also given names to facilitate human beings to call them. Qinglong is called' Meng Zhang', and in many dynasties, emperors took Qinglong as their country name, such as Wei Mingdi in the Three Kingdoms. Historical records also record that Xia Dynasty belonged to Mude Dynasty, so it is a good omen that "Qinglong was born in the suburbs".

On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, China people call it "February 2, when the dragon rises", which symbolizes the return of spring to the earth and the revival of everything.

Place name:

Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, see Qinglong County;

Year number:

Year number in the history of China:

Qinglong (Wei): The titles of Cao Cao and Cao Sao in the Three Kingdoms period, from 233 to 237, counting five years.

Qinglong (Hou Zhao): The year after Jian 'an, that is, one year, that is, 350 years.

Qinglong (Houyan): The year number of Houyan Lanhan is only one year, that is, 398 years.

Difference:

Simply put, the dragon is a race, with male and female, which can reproduce and die. Tsing lung is asexual and cannot reproduce. It is the only one in the world. There is no lower limit to life.

Dragon is the totem of Yanhuang civilization, and Qinglong is the oriental god who guards the East, belonging to the ancient god, that is, "Qinglong is not a dragon". They are two kinds of creatures and cannot be confused.

White tiger:

Origin:

White tiger is also the god of war and war, which originated from the worship of stars in ancient times. The white tiger has many magical powers, such as avoiding evil, avoiding disasters, praying for blessings, punishing evil and promoting good, making a fortune and getting married. It is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also changed from the stars. It is composed of 28 stars from seven places in the west: Kui, Lou, Stomach, Chang, Bi, Dog and God. So it is the representative of the west, and its white is because the west belongs to gold in the five elements, and its color is white. So white comes from the five elements.

In addition to the four spirits in Taoism, including the Dragon Tiger and the White Tiger, and even when the Feng Shui master explores the cemetery, the terrain protruding from the left and right sides in front of the terrain can be used as the tomb, and all of them have unique titles, called Zuo Qinglong and Right White Tiger, which means that they are guards. There are also the same decorations in the court. The left and right pillars are painted with the Dragon Tiger and the White Tiger to ward off evil spirits. After the rise of Taoism, Dragon and Tiger were borrowed as Taoist alchemy terms, referring to the agreement words of "lead and mercury, stagnation, fire and water, yin and yang". Another way of saying this is that sex belongs to wood, and wood represents the East. In divination, it is an earthquake, so it is a dragon. Love belongs to gold, gold represents the west, and the hexagrams are exchanged, which is golden white, so it is called white tiger. Gold can crush wood, so feelings are more harmful. If we use the true meaning of 28 to make it one, then it will be seamless, and the dragon and tiger will change from crouching tiger to Dan. In the human body, the liver is the dragon and the kidney is the tiger, while the external Dan still takes the meaning of yin and yang, with the dragon as the lead and the tiger as the mercury.

Because the White Tiger is a god of war and an axe, many brave generals are said to be reincarnated by the White Tiger Star, such as Luo Cheng and Xue and his son in the Tang Dynasty.

In the traditional culture of China, it is one of the four images of the Seven Stars in Western Taoism. According to the theory of five elements, it is a spirit beast representing the west, a white tiger, and the representative season is autumn. Twenty-eight West Seven Hostels (Kuilou, Wei, Chang, Bi, Gou and Shen) have tiger statues, which are located in the west, belong to gold and are white in color.

In Four Holy Beasts, China, another kind of dragon is often compared with the "white tiger". Like the dragon, the white tiger is not a tiger.

In the myths and legends of China, the white tiger is the god of war and war. At the same time, the white tiger also has many magical powers, such as avoiding evil, avoiding disasters, praying and punishing evil, promoting good, making a fortune, marrying and so on. And it is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also changed from the stars.

Symbol:

The white tiger symbolizes power and the army, so many places named after the white tiger in ancient times are related to the military, such as the white tiger flag in the ancient army and the white tiger statue on the military symbol. White tiger usually appears on the stone tomb door of Han dynasty, or is carved separately on both sides of the tomb lintel with Qinglong as a portrait to ward off evil spirits. "Yi Tong Customs" said: "The tiger, penis, the length of all animals, can beat the sharp, ghost-eating." In the concept of five elements in Han dynasty, the white tiger was regarded as a western god beast.