Why do all the snakes in the temple climb on the turtle's back?

Xuanwu is a spiritual object composed of turtles and snakes in ancient Chinese Han myths and legends. Xuanwu originally meant Xuanming, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Ming are interlinked. Xuan means black; Ghost means yin. Turtles and snakes are a combination of water gods, living in the North Sea, and turtles have a long life. Xuan Ming has become a symbol of immortality, and the underworld is also in the north, so it is the god of the north.

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.

In addition, it is the god of reproduction. In ancient China, the great divine power was compared to the phenomenon of the sympathetic evolution of everything in Yin and Yang, and the reproductive divine power was worshipped. The snake itself is a symbol of reproduction. Xuanwu appeared in the shape of tortoise and snake, which was regarded by the ancients as a symbol of male and female mating and reproduction.

In addition, these Taoist cultures mentioned above have little to do with Buddhism!