What is North Xuanwu?

Xuanwu, one of the four celestial spirits in ancient China mythology, also known as tortoise and snake, originated from the worship of stars in ancient times, which means that Xuanwu in the north divided twenty-eight lodges into seven lodges according to the southeast and northwest.

In the traditional culture of China, the four elephants refer to Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu, representing the east, west, north and south directions respectively. The northern Xuanwu is dominated by gossip, and the five elements dominate the water, symbolizing the old yin in the four elephants and the winter in the four seasons.

The theory of divination rose in the Han Dynasty, and its symbolic significance was added to the underworld, non-decadence and wisdom. After the Han dynasty, Taoism absorbed it as a protector, calling it a wise god, and then it was the Zhenwu emperor.

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Origin of white tiger: White tiger is also the god of war and war, which originated from the worship of stars in ancient times. The white tiger has many magical powers, such as avoiding evil, avoiding disasters, praying for blessings, punishing evil and promoting good, making a fortune and getting married. It is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also changed from the stars.

It is composed of 28 stars from seven places in the west: Kui, Lou, Stomach, Chang, Bi, Dog and God. So it is the representative of the west, and its white is because the west belongs to gold in the five elements, and its color is white. So white comes from the five elements.

In addition to the four spirits in Taoism, including the Qinglong White Tiger, even when the Feng Shui master visited the cemetery, the terrain protruding from the left and right sides in front of the terrain can be used as graves, and they all have unique names, called Zuo Qinglong and Right White Tiger, which means their guards.

The court also has the same decoration, with dragons and white tigers painted on the left and right pillars to suppress evil spirits. After the rise of Taoism, Dragon and Tiger were borrowed as Taoist alchemy terms, referring to the agreement words of "lead and mercury, stagnation, fire and water, yin and yang".

Another way of saying this is that sex belongs to wood, and wood represents the East. In divination, it is an earthquake, so it is a dragon. Love belongs to gold, gold represents the west, and the hexagrams are exchanged, which is golden white, so it is called white tiger. Gold can crush wood, so feelings are more harmful. If we use the true meaning of 28 to make it one, then it will be seamless, and the dragon and tiger will change from crouching tiger to Dan. In the human body, the liver is the dragon and the kidney is the tiger, while the external Dan still takes the meaning of yin and yang, with the dragon as the lead and the tiger as the mercury.

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