What do you mean, "Pheasant becomes Phoenix"?

It means that the pheasant becomes a phoenix, which is impossible, only in a dream.

In folklore, chicken, as a mascot, has rich cultural connotations.

There is a very festive saying called "the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious", which has the shadow of a chicken. Phoenix, like dragon, is an imaginary animal of the ancients. The prototype of the dragon is a snake. What is the prototype of Phoenix? Chicken!

Some scholars believe that the earliest image of the phoenix found in archaeology is the multi-legged "two birds" carved with ivory unearthed from Hemudu site in Zhejiang province 7000 years ago. Two birds are circles symbolizing the sun, which are interpreted by conservatives as "two birds rising in the morning". Some scholars infer that this is a phoenix bird, which should be called "double phoenix sunrise". These two "phoenix birds" are very similar to chickens, or both belong to the genus Chickens, so it is not bad to call them "two chickens in the morning".

"Two chickens facing the sun" is a comprehensive reflection of the ancient people's view of worshipping chickens and grandchildren, and the discovery of "Japanese and Chinese three-footed black feet" on the stone relief in the Eastern Han Dynasty further proves the possibility of "one chicken belongs to one genus", and the three-footed black feet are very similar to roosters who are good at singing.

In the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was a legend of "Wu with three legs in Japan and China", while "Huainanzi Spiritual Practice" said that "Wu in Japan and China, toad in the moon." Sanzuwu and Tiaowu are different versions of "Sunbird", but they are really "Golden Rooster". When talking about twelve genera in Yang Shen's "Yilin Felling Mountain" in the Ming Dynasty, he said: "There are golden roosters in Japan and China, which belong to one genus; In the middle of the month, the jade rabbit returns to the hair. "

In the eyes of the ancients, the sun and the moon were together. Since the middle of the month is a "hairy rabbit", the Japanese and Chinese counterpart should be a "unitary chicken". Yang Shen's point of view is very reasonable. Of course, there can't be roosters, birds and other animals in the sun. Modern astronomers believe that this was observed by the ancients when sunspots broke out, and then the myth became a celestial phenomenon.

There is also a saying in ancient literature that a chicken is a chicken.

On the Danxue Mountain recorded in Shan Hai Jing Nan Shan Jing, "there is a bird shaped like a chicken. Its name is Phoenix, and it has a literary talent, a literary talent, a literary talent, a fake literary talent, and a literary talent. " Is the Phoenix here a chicken? We can't be sure just from "it's shaped like a chicken".