What do you mean by cow's head and horse's face?

Legend has it that there are two ghost soldiers, one with the head of an ox and the other with the head of a horse. Metaphor is all kinds of ugly people.

Headhunters' image based on China traditional culture. According to the Tiecheng Mud Plough Classic, Abang, when he was a man, became a bull's head in the underworld after his death because he was unfilial to his parents, and served as an official on patrol and searching for fugitives. It is said that Buddhism is originally a bull's head. When it was introduced to China, it was only because the people in China were the most symmetrical and paired, that it was matched with a horse face.

However, it is also reported that the horse face is also called Luo Cha, also from Buddhism. However, I didn't find a horse face as a servant of hades in Indian mythology. There is indeed the image of a "horse-faced and bright king" in the tantric school, but it is a great god in the tantric school. According to legend, it is the incarnation of Guanyin Bodhisattva, an officer in hades.

The cow's head and horse's face are considered to be subordinates of the underworld gods (such as Emperor Dongyue, Yan Luowang, Lord Huang Cheng, and King Earth Treasure Bodhisattva). Some people will burn paper money for them, hoping that they will not embarrass their ancestors.

origin

The ghost difference between "bull's head" and "bull's head" originated from the Buddhist Five Bitter Chapters and Sentences Sutra, named Abang Sutra and Tiecheng Mud Plough Sutra. "Tiecheng Mud Plough Classic" points out that Abang was a servant of an ox's head. As a jailer, he told Emperor Yan Luowang about his crimes before he died. In Buddhism, the demon heaven is a person with a bull's head, so the origin of the bull's head also comes from this.

Ma Mian Some people think that he is Luo Cha with a horse's head, in charge of the evil spirits in hell.

It is said that Ma Mian is the incarnation of Ma Mianming, a Buddhist tantric, who is responsible for protecting the safety of hell. However, this statement was refuted. Ma Mianming was originally the incarnation of Guanyin or Amitabha, the Buddhist protector, and was also responsible for crossing animal roads. Therefore, the origin of horse face should be that after Buddhism was introduced into China, it gradually evolved from horse face Ming and horse face Luo Cha.

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