Where did the white tiger come from?

The white tiger originated from the worship of stars in ancient times and is one of the four great gods in the west and heaven. Taoism calls them "prison soldiers", and in different Taoist scriptures they are called "emperors", "holy generals", "gods generals" and "ghost-catching generals". Among the twenty-eight lodging houses, White Tiger is the general name of seven lodging houses in the West (Kui, Lou, Wei, Chang, Bi, Gou and Shen).

The earliest symbol of the Twenty-eight Lodgings is the Seven Lodgings in the West, with four images showing little shade and five elements belonging to gold. It is the god who dominates the West and autumn. After the Han Dynasty, the five elements were associated with the five elements in the "Three Cardinals and Five Permanences" and became the symbol of "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith".

White tiger is a god of war, which has many magical powers, such as avoiding evil, avoiding disaster, praying for blessings, punishing evil and promoting good, getting rich and getting married, but it is also an evil god in some superstitions.

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In the Han Dynasty, there was the White Tiger Temple, one of the four major temples in Weiyang, and in Huiji, Zhejiang, there was an old custom of offering sacrifices to the White Tiger God on the 14th day of the first month.

According to textual research, the worship of white tiger appeared in ancient Qiang and Rong nationalities. Today, the Yi, Bai, Buyi and Tujia people in China still call the White Tiger their ancestor.

It is believed that the White Tiger Star King, known as "Ba Li" and "King of the White Emperor", gave birth to seven men and seven women, and the origin of this statement is the evolution of the star myth under the worship of the tiger in the State of Chu.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-White Tiger