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Monster Notes ‖ White Tiger (Annotated Edition)

The ancients believed that tigers were not animals, but ghosts and gods.

Lions, also known as the king of beasts, live in vast grasslands and plains, and their living habits are unobstructed. Tigers, on the other hand, sneak in the dark. Their gorgeous fur is so bright, but they are invisible in the mottled forest, like ghosts. ①

The so-called Chinese Zodiac is that the immortal calls twelve kinds of animals to a meeting, and the tiger comes to the third kind, so it is in charge of the mysterious time from 3 am to 5 am. At this time, the moonlight covers the earth, and the yin is filled, which is a good time for ghosts to gather. ②

The tiger's authority is enough to deter these nocturnal monsters. China folk cloth tiger toys are often placed next to children's pillows. It is said that they can ensure that children will not be frightened when they sleep at night and prevent ghosts from falling asleep. The legendary guardians (Shen Tu and Lei Yu) will feed the ghost to the tiger after catching it. ③

Tigers themselves are very naughty and annoying, and they will lurk among humans. According to Guang Yi Ji, a tiger married a human woman during the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. It took two years to build a house in the mountains before the woman noticed. One day, two guests suddenly came with wine, so they set up a banquet at home. Late at night, the woman got up at night and saw Sanhu drunk at the table. She was frightened, but she was afraid to speak. The woman didn't dare to run away at first, but later told her husband that she missed her parents and wanted to go back to her family. A few days later, the husband took some wine and meat with the woman and gradually came to his wife's house. The woman waded over first. The husband just rolled up his robe and got into the water. The woman smiled on the shore and said, Honey, why is a tiger's tail sticking out behind you? The husband was startled and jumped up to look back. Does Ann have a tail? I turned around and realized that the loose-packed bag had been exposed. "Shame, the disease will not come back."

There is an article in Searching for the Gods: There is a mountaineer organ hunting in a cage in Changsha, and one day the local police chief (Tingchang) is found in the cage. Surprised, the director cursed me, saying that I was cut by the county magistrate yesterday and ambushed by you. The villagers quickly let go of the cage, and the police chief instantly turned into a tiger and jumped away.

Tigers are not only responsible for two hours at midnight. In ancient China, there were four gods, Oriental Dragon, Western White Tiger, South Suzaku and North Xuanwu. People in China believe that a tiger will turn white in 500 years, and then it can live 1000 years. When it dies, its soul will condense like a candle and tear in the "solidified glance" before it dies, and become amber, which is actually a kind of "tiger spirit". ④

The highest god who manages the West is the Queen Mother of the West, which is actually the biggest white tiger. "Biography of Mu" (Volume III) says: "The Queen Mother of the West is like a human being, with tiger teeth, full of sheng and good at whistling." In fact, the four gods are also representatives of the four seasons. White tiger indicates that autumn is the season when everything withers and it is a good weather for killing people. Chunsheng, Xia Rong, Qiusha, Dongcang, etc.

Now we know the power of the white tiger, whose predecessor was the Queen Mother of the West (similar to Shiva in India) who was in charge of reproduction and destruction. Because it is in charge of reproduction, the tiger is regarded as a symbol of sex, especially the white tiger (the woman known as the white tiger) is also the sexual object that China men are afraid of-it has extremely high sexual ability and may be accompanied by disaster.

China people call it "going to Wushan for sex" because of the story of Wushan Goddess. The Goddess of Wushan is Shan Gui in The Songs of the South, who always rides a tiger naked.

People associate tigers with sexual ability, which is very unfortunate for tigers-for hundreds or even thousands of years, organs such as tiger penis and tiger fat have been recognized as aphrodisiacs. Although the effect of tiger whip may not be as good as fresh green asparagus, the power of culture will last forever. The person who wants to be "good" has killed all the tigers on the earth today. Vyaghra, a modern magical aphrodisiac, means tiger in Sanskrit. Although Pfizer, the manufacturer of Viagra, clarified that this was just an amazing coincidence.

I would rather believe that the tiger has not disappeared, but uses its supernatural power to lurk deeper in human beings.

[Notes]

Beauty and danger

To the western world, the tiger is a real alien species. According to Pliny's records, it was not until 1 1 BC that the tiger first appeared in the west, in the temple of marcellus in ancient Rome. This tiger may be a gift from the Indian maharaja to Augustus the Great.

The most famous sentence describing tigers in the west comes from the dream "Tiger" by Blake: "Tiger! Tiger! In the forest at night, there are bright fires burning. " Black's tiger image gives people a beauty of deterrence, which contains frightening destructive power and natural violence, and is full of profound symbolic significance. Baudelaire likes to regard women as a tiger that combines beauty and sex appeal. In the poem "Jewelry", which was once deleted as prohibited goods, Baudelaire said:

She stared at me like a tame tiger,

Change positions in a daze,

A mixture of lewdness and innocence.

The mutation added strange pain to her.

This is the extreme of the tiger in literature: beauty and danger are twin brothers, facing each other and combining with the tiger wonderfully.

② Year of the Tiger Zodiac

Astrologers and fortune tellers in China believe that for individuals, the zodiac, which is in charge of the year and time of birth, is "rooted in the heart" and affects people's character and destiny. Qin Shihuang, who started the emperor's career through the ages, was born in the Year of the Tiger. He combined the tiger's masculinity with the national military strength. American super sexy idol Marilyn Monroe was also born in the Year of the Tiger. She showed the mysterious, dark, beautiful and enchanting temperament of the tigress to the fullest.

Many world celebrities were born in the Year of the Tiger: Muhammad, Ivan the Terrible, Louis XIV, Beethoven and Marx. ...

The ancients often used the image of a tiger to show authority and strength.

In the bronze wares and jade ornaments of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, the tiger shape was an important pattern, while in the Warring States Period, the symbol of the tiger was often used as a symbol of military strength. Because of this, the tiger has been handed down from generation to generation as a deterrent in China culture, and it has become the patron saint of human beings in many folk customs. The legendary keeper (Shen Tu, Lei Yu) wanted to feed the ghost to the tiger after catching it. Later, he simply painted the tiger on the door as a blessing. "Youyang Miscellaneous Notes" says: "Vulgarity is not as good as painting a tiger's head on the door, writing the word' gradually' and naming ghosts after swords, but it is not enough." This is taking the shape of a tiger's head as a door guard against ghosts. There is a big tiger head decoration on the belly armor of the stone carving military attache in Dingling of the Ming Tombs, which also contains witchcraft.

④ The Legend of Amber

In ancient China, amber was also called "tiger spirit", "animal spirit" and "hiding from eyes". As the name implies, amber is considered to be transformed from the eyes or soul of a tiger. In Song Dynasty, Huang Xiufu recorded the legend that the tiger soul turned into amber in Mao Ting Ke Hua. When Li Shizhen revised Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty, he recorded: "When a tiger dies, its spirit turns into stone, which looks like it, so it is called tiger spirit. Folk literature comes from jade and looks like jade. " Because people think that amber is "made by tigers who died underground", as early as ancient times, nobles regarded amber as a thing to avoid disasters and soothe their nerves.

Amber is called amber in English, which comes from ancient Arabic, meaning "something drifting on the sea", because Arabs at that time thought amber was a gem washed ashore by the waves after a storm. The famous "mermaid's tears" is a beautiful legend related to this-Poseidon's little daughter in Nordic mythology. The tears shed by the sigh and the sad love of the prince solidified into translucent amber.

Amber is also called "the stone of the sun". In Greek mythology, Phaeton, the son of Helius, the sun god, always wanted to drive a winged solar car by himself. Helius never agreed to his son's request. On that day, Phaeton quietly flew over the world in a solar car behind his father's back, and finally lost control and overturned, and countless forests and Yuan Ye were burned to ashes. Phaeton himself was shot down by Zeus' lightning and fell into the Elie Danos River. Mother Clymene, sister Gella Des and others cried when they learned the bad news. They were heartbroken and cried for four months. Finally, their sisters turned into poplars by the river, and their tears turned into amber.

The theory that sad tears condense into amber is similar to China's theory that "tiger eyes condense into amber", which shows that the ancients realized that amber was originally composed of liquid.

⑤ Shiva

Shiva first appeared as evil in the Vedas, and was called the "Lord of Animals". She lived in the Himalayan forest in the north (the gods lived in the east) to protect those who fled the Aryan conquest. Later, it developed into the supreme god in Hinduism-the god of destruction, reproduction, dance and asceticism.

There is a myth that when Brahma and Vishnu (the other two of the three major Hindu gods) are arguing about who is greater, a burning pillar of fire appears in front of them, as if to burn the universe. The two great gods were frightened to disgrace and both went to inquire about the source of the pillar of fire. Vishnu became a wild boar and ran along the pillar for 1000 years; Brahma turned into a swan and flew on the pillar for a thousand years, but failed to reach the end of the pillar. When they had to go back to the starting point to meet each other, Shiva appeared in front of them and they found that the pillar was Shiva's Linga (male root).

Shiva's great strength comes from asceticism. It can be said that India's asceticism originated from an older indigenous tradition and merged with the gods into the world of Aryan Brahmanism.

⑥ Tiger and Sex

The tiger's strength and nocturnal nature have become a symbol of sexual ability in Asia. In China's profound Taoism, which stresses the balance between yin and yang, its deified image-the white tiger-is in charge of the wind and the female power representing darkness, fertility and women.

Shan Gui, the ninth song in Qu Yuan's Songs of the South, is a sacrificial song dedicated to Shan Gui by ancient Chu people. It sings about a beautiful and affectionate Shan Gui. He waited eagerly after a tryst with his son in the mountains, but his son didn't come again, feeling disappointed and confused. Qu Yuan used Shan Gui's inner monologue to interweave fantasy and reality, and drew a misty, rainy, warm and spacious atmosphere.

By the Qing Dynasty, Gu Chengtian's Interpretation of Nine Songs advocated Shan Gui as a "Goddess of Wushan", which was later verified and expounded by Guo Moruo, Ma Maoyuan and others. "Shan Gui" is interpreted as "female ghost" or "goddess" and is widely accepted. Painters of past dynasties described Shan Gui heartily, mostly in the form of naked women, decorated with garlands and grass skirts, riding on tigers and leopards, vaguely showing a state of loss and sadness.

In the west, even in a cage, the tiger is still gorgeous and sexy, with the hedonistic aura of Dionysus Dionysus. Since the first century AD, Dionysus in painting often rode on a tiger, which may symbolize Dionysus's indulgence in carnival life.

This image seems to have penetrated into the hearts of westerners and is reflected in works of art, advertisements and even people's dreams. 1944, Spanish painter da used painting to show a dream told by his wife Gallas, so a famous work "Dream caused by bees flying around pomegranate one second before waking up" was born. Dali is addicted to Freud's psychoanalysis, claiming that the fish in the painting represents male strength, rifles and sharp bayonets imply penis, pomegranate seeds symbolize women's fertility and reproduction, and the two powerful and unstoppable tigers emerging from the fish mouth just show Gallas' subconscious desire for sex.

The image of the tiger also has a place in western fortune-telling poker, representing passion and the possibility of new love.

The book "Monster Notes" will be published soon, with illustrations.