Introduction of Ancient Beasts in Shan Hai Jing (end)

There are no flowers and trees in Zhan Ge, but jasper is everywhere. Very strange images often appear in the mountains. There is a wild animal in the mountains, which is shaped like a red leopard, with five tails and a horn. Its name is Zheng, and its voice is like knocking on a stone.

God beast: obesity legacy

The omen of Hiderigami in ancient legends of China. It is said that Feiyi is a strange snake that lives at the foot of Taihua Mountain. It has a head, two bodies, six legs and four wings. There is also a legend that the fat residue is a yellow quail-sized bird with a red beak. It is said that eating this fat residue can cure diseases and prevent parasites.

It was first recorded in Shan Hai Jing Xi Shan Jing: There was a strange snake named "Fei Yi" on Huashan Mountain. Once it appears, it indicates that there will be a large-scale drought.

Monster: the red-eyed pig demon

Pig head and dog body, huge body, black hair, hard thorns, red eyes, can secretly see things. I like to eat scavengers and live in dark and humid places.

Beast: ancient sculpture

Five hundred miles to the east is Wu Shan, a deer. There are no flowers or trees on the mountain, but they are rich in metal minerals and jade. Zegeng water originates from this mountain and then flows south into Pangshui. There is a wild animal in the water. Its name is ancient mink. It is shaped like an ordinary carved eagle, but it has long horns on its head. It can make babies cry and eat people.

Ancient beast: Xuanwu

Xuanwu is a spiritual thing composed of turtles and snakes. Xuanwu originally meant Xuanming, and Xuanyi meant black; Ghost means yin. At first, Xuan Ming described the tortoise divination as follows: the tortoise's back is black, and the tortoise divination is to let the tortoise go to the underworld to ask his ancestors, bring back the answers and show them to the world in the form of divination. 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.

Beast: Hook the snake

A legendary snake, amphibian, generally lives in water, fierce and aggressive, and highly toxic. The most obvious feature is that its tail is different from ordinary snakes and bifurcates like two hooks. Moreover, crocodiles also use tail hooks to hook prey and then swallow it. This is recorded in Water Mirror Notes (If Water). It just seems that no one has heard of this kind of snake in recent hundreds of years.

Beast: Tian Hu.

Legend has it that fairies and foxes can become women at the age of 50; A hundred years old is a beauty and a witch. ...

Being able to know foreign affairs thousands of miles away and being good at charm make people confused and ignorant; Chitose is connected with the sky.