Do strange people have anything to do with the dragon zodiac? In 2022, it was a dragon and a white tiger star.

Do strange people have anything to do with the dragon zodiac?

The cultural prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, with its own characteristics and inclusiveness, made all kinds of cultures get great development, and even reached its peak at one time. Zodiac culture is a distinctive culture, which is still closely related to life. For example, people firmly believe that the Year of the Zodiac is full of disasters. Zodiac culture embodies people's harmony and customs, prospers in the world, blends into different cultures, and constantly glows with new vitality in the new era.

First, the origin of the zodiac culture is the earliest, and it is sought after by both artists and people. Some artists put statues of the zodiac in the palace, and the literati's enthusiasm for creation was high, and a large number of fairy tales and poems of the zodiac came into being. It has become a common phenomenon to be buried with the maids of the zodiac, and the concept of the core monument of life has laid the foundation for the development of Xiao Sheng's culture.

Zodiac culture originated in the pre-Qin period and belongs to the culture itself. Therefore, it is more common in miscellaneous history and less recorded in official history. However, it can also be seen that the official history is constantly absorbing the influence brought by the zodiac culture, and it is effective to use the zodiac culture to help promoters.

According to the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, during the reign of Wu Zetian, a statue of the zodiac was placed in the main hall. During the animal year, the prophecies and biographies in the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty often see stories related to the zodiac. For example, when Huang Chao was here, the prophetic nursery rhymes recorded in the book mentioned two zodiac signs, namely "snake" and "horse".

Wu Zetian

The funerary objects of the Zodiac, the core monument of life, and the Zodiac in Tang Xianzong are also recorded in official books. In various books, such as Taiping Guang Ji, many strange things are recorded, many of which are related to the zodiac, such as the story of the tiger spirit.

Many poems are related to the zodiac, which shows the prevalence of the zodiac culture in the Tang Dynasty. Zodiac culture is also related to culture, and it also has its own life core tablet culture, which is related to the life core tablet culture of the zodiac. In the classics, there are also stories of twelve beasts coming to the world to help the world.

Images of the zodiac generally appear on stone statues, epitaphs, bronze mirrors and tomb murals. Zodiac figurines are mainly used to protect the tomb owner, simulate heavenly stems and earthly branches and guard against unknown forces.

Zodiac statue

From Sui Dynasty to Tang Dynasty, with the rapid development of economy and the rapid spread of culture, the zodiac culture in this period became mature, so a large number of zodiac figurines appeared in tombs in this period. However, like other tombs, the figurines of the 12 Zodiac animals are also limited by different grades, and ordinary people and nobles naturally use them differently.

There are three kinds of Zodiac figurines, one is realistic Zodiac figurines, which simulate the stone statues produced by different Zodiac, the other is animal heads, which abstractly combine human characteristics with those of Zodiac, and the third is figures with Zodiac figurines, which means that the main body is human, but there are Zodiac animals around. The image of the zodiac will also be engraved on the epitaph decoration.

This kind of tomb decoration mainly appeared in the northern area of the Tang Dynasty, and like the figurines of the zodiac, it can be divided into three categories, such as realism. Generally carved around the cover of the epitaph, it is the moment when the tomb records the deeds of the deceased. Generally, the patterns of the Chinese zodiac are carved around the stone, which plays a role of shock, protection and decoration.

Bronze mirrors have their own cultural connotations. Having appropriate clothes to know the gains and losses can play a role in eliminating disasters, so there are often bronze mirrors in tombs. Zodiac animals on bronze mirrors are generally realistic, but they will be beautified with other patterns, such as tying branches and auspicious animals. Murals with animals of the zodiac are also common. For example, there are twelve portraits in the tomb of Gao Lishi, the right-hand man around, and there are also portraits with the zodiac as the main body in the Mogao Grottoes.

Second, the culture of the Chinese zodiac in the Tang Dynasty is closely linked with the culture, thus better promoting the spread. At that time, the concept of the zodiac was deeply rooted in people's hearts, and the core monuments of life were deeply rooted. As a chicken, we should reuse the children who are good at raising chickens and promote the prosperity of the zodiac culture.

First of all, the culture embodies the zodiac culture, which prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, and the zodiac culture and culture are also integrated. It is recorded in the book that twelve o'clock and twelve months are in charge of heaven and earth, or the image is integrated with the animals of the zodiac, and the idea of infinity and ancestor is promoted.

These are all because of the popularity of the zodiac. For the sake of China content and the image of the zodiac, it is to make it more approachable and attract more people.

Because Li Er, the originator of the Tang Dynasty, surnamed Li, in order to make his surname superior, followers of the Tang Dynasty also constantly improved their status, thus making it one of the three mainstream schools in the Tang Dynasty.

To deify a Jiazi into 60 words within 60 years is to be born out of the concept of the Zodiac God. At the same time, the Zodiac God is also a part of the cultural system. Although the grade is not high, it is a humble image, but they are the same as the image of Lei Gong Dian Mu.

Therefore, placing funerary objects such as the figurines of the zodiac in the tomb not only embodies the view of nature and life and death, but also hopes to put the twelve in the tomb to guard the yin house and protect the safety of the tomb.

When did the Zodiac culture appear? In modern times, there are three views on the origin of the zodiac culture. One is the view of foreign scholars that the zodiac culture is foreign, not native to China; The other is the view of Japanese scholars, who believe that the zodiac culture originated in Egypt; The third is the view of local scholars in China, who generally believe that the Zodiac culture originated from China's own cultural soil.

Before the 1970s, Chinese historical researchers always believed that the zodiac culture originated from the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the subsequent excavation of a series of Qin bamboo slips proved that the zodiac culture began much earlier than the Han Dynasty, and there were literary records in the works of Wang Chong, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which were completely consistent with the modern zodiac culture, so the emergence of the zodiac culture was much earlier than the expectations of the world.

The core tablet of life in the zodiac culture has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi once wrote a poem:

"If you dream, you will know if you are alive."

Express the joy of spending the birth year with Liu Yuxi, a friend of the same age.

The year of birth means too old, so many people are afraid to pass the year of birth when they are old, because in the eyes of the world, the year of birth is an unknown year and a threshold of life. If you cross it, you can continue to live, but if you don't cross it, you will die in trouble.

Similarly, a short story was recorded in Youyang Zayu in the Tang Dynasty. The hero of the story is a mouse. He thinks that mice are afraid of light, so they live in darkness. He thinks mice are afraid of cats and dogs, so he never keeps these animals. He treats mice as his guardian and treats them carefully. He thinks that as long as he treats them well in his birth year, there will be no disaster. From this story, we can see people's trust in the zodiac culture and their fear of the animal year in the Tang Dynasty.

Not only ordinary people believe in the Zodiac culture, but even the emperor trusts it very much, the most prominent of which is Li Longji. Li Longji was born in 1920, so he likes cockfighting. Before he ascended the throne, Tomb-Sweeping Day had to fight cocks. After he ascended the throne, he built a cockfighting workshop between the two palaces.

gamecock

Because he loves cockfighting, there has been a cockfighting craze, and people have followed suit. In order to please Xuanzong, dignitaries did not hesitate to fight cocks, and some even scattered their property.

It is said that when Xuanzong traveled, he met a child from a civilian family playing with wooden chickens. I was very happy at that time and took him back to the palace to take charge of the chicken farm in the palace. This child is really a master of raising chickens, so he was once extremely loved by Xuanzong. When he died, Xuanzong even ordered to be buried according to the burial standards of county officials.

At that time, someone was ridiculed and wrote a doggerel saying that it is better to learn cockfighting than to raise children to study. Because Xuanzong's birth year is unitary chicken, unitary corresponds to the gold in the five elements, and gold also refers to it, so it is only sealed in Huashan, Xiyue, not now. All these show the core memorial of life, and also show that the zodiac culture is deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Thirdly, under the influence of the concept of the zodiac culture and the core tablet of life in the Tang Dynasty, the application of the zodiac culture is reflected in many aspects. In ancient times, marriage emphasized the matching of men and women, and the harvest of a year was judged by the zodiac in agriculture. Zodiac culture has also broken the barrier between culture and upper-class culture. Regardless of class, people and nobles are familiar with Zodiac culture.

In the Tang Dynasty, only the marriage with six rites was recognized, and the "asking the name" in the six rites was to ask the woman's name and birth date, including the date of birth and the zodiac. Zodiac collocation is also very important. For example, men and women who are chickens and dogs should not get married, because "chickens and dogs are restless."

Pay attention to the collocation of zodiac in marriage

China has always been a big agricultural country in ancient times, and the Tang Dynasty was no exception. Farmers expect good weather all the year round in order to have a good harvest. Therefore, after using the heavenly stems and earthly branches calendar year, farmers associate the harvest of one year with the Chinese zodiac, so they have all kinds of ideas, such as the Year of the Ox and the Year of the Horse, but even if they work hard, the Year of the Rooster will not be a bumper year.

Zodiac culture was also reflected in the medicine of Tang Dynasty. It is said in the document that patients should judge what color medicine they should take according to their own animal color. For example, people who belong to rats should take black medicine when they are sick, and people who belong to chickens should eat Baiyao.

Zodiac culture has increased Tang Wenhua's humanistic temperament and characteristics. The portraits of animal characters in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties are mostly rigid and realistic, lacking artistry. However, the animal portraits in the Tang Dynasty are mostly elegant and natural, no longer constrained by the previous shackles, showing a free and easy natural image, combining the characteristics of humanistic thought in the Tang Dynasty, and highlighting the subjectivity of people.

Zodiac culture breaks the barrier between culture and upper culture. In the past, the culture of the upper class represented Chun Xue, which was quite different from the culture. In the Zodiac culture, both husband and wife and dignitaries are afraid of the arrival of the animal year, which makes the culture organically combined with the upper culture.

Refer to historical classics:

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Quantang book

Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government

The above is about the relationship between the strange man and the dragon zodiac. It's about the sharing of the zodiac. I hope this will help everyone who watched Dragon and Tiger Star in 2022!