What do you mean by Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu?

During the Warring States period, there were "the former Suzaku and the later Xuanwu, the left Qinglong and the right White Tiger". One of the main manifestations of the four ancient gods in China was militarily.

The so-called sky, left Qinglong, right White Tiger, former Suzaku, and later Xuanwu. Therefore, you can know the order of the sun and the moon in the shade of the class, and you can know the cold and heat of the world by seeing the ice in the bottle. -"A Brief Training of Huai Nan Zi Bing"

Anyone who is familiar with the Yijing geomantic omen knows that the former Suzak, the later Xuanwu, Zuo Qinglong and you Bai Lake. In fact, this is what most people call the four beasts, which are the four positive directions of gossip in the Book of Changes. Suzaku is divination, Xuanwu is divination, Qinglong is divination, and White Tiger is divination.

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Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu, also known as the Four Elephants, are the four gods in China mythology, representing the east, west, south and north respectively. They originated from the belief in the stars in ancient China, not Taoism, and were not absorbed by Taoism until the Han Dynasty.

Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu respectively represent 28 stars in four directions. For example, the dragon is the east corner, the sonorous, the mutual, the room, the heart, the tail and the dustpan, all of which are very dragon-shaped. As can be seen from their meanings, the horn is the horn of the dragon, the sonorous is the neck, and they are the roots of each other, namely. The east is a dragon, the west is a white tiger, the south is Suzaku, the north is Xuanwu, and the middle is Huanglong (Ying Long).

There are dragons in the east, white tigers in the west, suzaku in the south, Xuanwu in the north and Huanglong in the middle. Corresponding to Jin Mu's fire, water and soil. Qinglong is wood, white tiger is gold, Suzaku is fire, Xuanwu is water, and the central Huanglong is earth. Ancient astronomers in China divided the stars in the sky into seven star regions: Three Walls and Four Elephants. The so-called "wall" is the "city wall".

"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.

That is to say, the stars in the east are like dragons, the stars in the west are like tigers, the stars in the south are like big birds, and the stars in the north are like turtles and snakes. 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; At the turn of spring and summer, Suzaku rises; At the turn of summer and autumn, white tigers emerge; At the turn of autumn and winter, Xuanwu rises. Others always call it "the four beasts"

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