On the Orientation of Left Qinglong and Right White Tiger

There is an iron gate in the building. White door. Juwamen. Qingliumen. The names of these four doors. They are all taken from the four great beasts of Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu.

Qinglong is the God of the East; White tiger is the god of the west; Suzaku is the god of the south; Xuanwu is the god of the north, and the tortoise and snake are one. Therefore, there are "four spirits: Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, Xuanwu and Tiansi. The square is the square, and the king makes the palace pavilion take the method." "。

Therefore, the location of Liuqingmen is the East Gate, the location of Baidaomen is the West Gate, the location of Zhuwamen is the South Gate, and the location of Heilingmen is the North Gate. The first sentence of these four doors is the first sentence of these four great beasts. Some people say that Xuanwu is the first mystery, not black. In fact, it is like this: Xuanwu stands for black tortoise and snake, Wu stands for tortoise and snake, and Xuan stands for black.

So how did the second word come from? In fact, it is also taken from the four great beasts, but this is related to Feng Shui.

In geomantic omen, Qinglong is used. White tiger. Suzaku Xuanwu to indicate the direction.

"Ten Books of Yangzhai" says: The place where there is running water on the left side of the house is called Qinglong. There is a long road on the right, called White Tiger. There is a sweat pool in front, called Suzaku. There is a hill behind it, called Xuanwu. This is the most expensive place.

Conversely, the house should have running water in the west, roads in the east, running water in front and hills in the back.

But there is also a saying that western buildings are slightly higher than themselves, and eastern buildings are slightly lower than themselves.

In addition, Japan's Tale of the Peace Family was also mentioned. Yuduo Village faces the river in the east, the road in the west, Chize in the south and mountains in the north. In fact, it is the place where the four gods correspond. It can be seen that Qingliumen takes the stream represented by Qinglong. White gate, take the road represented by white tiger. Zhuwamen, represented by Suzaku (Akazawa), is hollow. Heilingmen, a mausoleum represented by Xuanwu.

About "Xuanwu":

Xuanwu: Xuanwu is a spiritual thing composed of turtles and snakes. Xuanwu originally meant Xuanming, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Ming are interlinked. Wu means black; Ghost means yin. At first, Xuan Ming described the turtle divination as follows: the turtle's back is black, and the turtle divination first invited the turtle to ask questions in the underworld, brought back the answers and showed them to the world in the form of divination. Therefore, the earliest Xuanwu is the tortoise. Since then, the meaning of Xuanming has been expanding. Turtles live in rivers, lakes and seas (including turtles), so Xuan Ming became a water god; The tortoise lives long, and Xuan Ming has become a symbol of immortality; It turns out that the underworld is in the north, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions's divination in the Shang Dynasty is "divination must go north", so Xuan Ming became a northern god again.