Ask for some idioms about the legend of Phoenix

1. Wu Tong Qifeng

Wu Tong is the king of trees. It is said that it is a spiritual tree. It can know when to build it. "Lu Wenjian": "A hundred birds in the phoenix tree dare not perch, but only avoid the phoenix". Phoenix, as the king of birds, breeds the universe. It is not a phoenix tree. "Shu Wei Wang Xie Chuan" "Phoenix is not a phoenix tree", the phoenix chooses wood to live in, and later it is compared to the sage choosing the Lord and leaning; Phoenix's gentlemanly demeanor can also be found in Jiang Ziya and Zhuge Liang. Before meeting the "buttonwood tree", they would rather be ordinary fishermen and cultivators.

2. Get the image of Phoenix

Legend has it that the phoenix will be reborn after death. Legend has it that it can know the rise and fall of chaos in the world. It is the best embodiment of Wang Dao's benevolent government in the history of our country, a barometer of the rise and fall of troubled times and an "image ambassador" of theological politics. The ancients were divided into five grades, and the five movements of Phoenix marked the degree of political clarity. Therefore, the emperors of all dynasties regarded "Feng Ming Chaoyang" and "Birds at the Phoenix" as symbols of prosperity and peace. Southern Qi Xie Zhao's Ten Poems of Yongming Music: "Colorful Feng Ming Chaoyang, Yuanhe Dance Shang Qing; Rui Yongming has been the emperor for thousands of years. "

3. Feng Qiuhuang

When Sima Xiangru, a lyricist in the Western Han Dynasty, was down and out, he went to Lin Qiong, Sichuan to visit his friend Wang Ji, the county magistrate. Sometimes, Zhuo Wenjun, the daughter of the local richest man, Zhuo Wangsun, becomes a widow. Sima played the piano music "Phoenix Begging for Phoenix" in public at the banquet of Zhuo Wang Sun, in order to provoke Wen Jun. Zhuo Wenjun peeped out from the window of the banquet hall and saw that he was handsome and talented, so he eloped with him that night. Later, it refers to the love between men and women, and men pursue women, which also symbolizes the yearning and praise for a happy marriage.

4. Feng Haichao

In Feng Haichao, Cheng Pu, assistant minister of the Ministry of War, retired in his later years and returned to his hometown. Xueyan, Mrs Yuan Pei's daughter, is very ugly. My concubine gave birth to a daughter named Xue E, who is beautiful and smart. Cheng Pu fell in love with the handsome young Mu Juyi and wanted to marry Xue E, but his wife had to marry her daughter Xue Yan. On Cheng Shousheng's birthday, Mu Juyi came to offer condolences and was locked up in the library. In the middle of the night, Xueyan went to the library in the name of Ye Xue. Mu Juyi saw that she was ugly and misbehaved. She mistakenly thought that she had been cheated and left angrily overnight.

Cheng Pu was employed by the imperial court and left home for his post. The royal family coveted Xue E for a long time and took the opportunity to come to the Cheng family to marry him in the name of Muju. His wife secretly married Xueyan with a switch. The truth came out in the bridal chamber night, and they were like dumb people eating coptis chinensis-life was hard. Cheng Puping decided to be a thief and take Xue E to join the army, and Mu Juyi joined the army here. Cheng Pu brought up marriage again. Mu remembered the past and resolutely refused to marry, but was forced to marry by the marshal and the prison army. In the bridal chamber, Mu was amazed at Xue E's beauty, made amends again and again, and cleared up the misunderstanding. The play is a comedy with a series of interesting plots due to misunderstanding and "mistakes in the middle". In the plot structure, the techniques of "keeping the buckle" and "shaking the bag" are quite successful. In the scene of "study", Xueyan braved the name of Xue E to pester Mu Juyi late at night, and Mu decided that Xue E was an ugly girl, which laid the groundwork for "leaving a button". In the scene of bridal chamber, the bride is obviously a beautiful snow moth, but Mu Juyi stubbornly thinks that she is an ugly girl, refuses to get married, and is disgusted and upset; Married father-in-law Hong and others are somehow suspicious. This disharmony between subjective and objective leads to comedy and arouses the laughter of the audience. In the laughter, Mu Juyi was "moving bricks and hitting feet". When the "baggage" was uncovered, the curtain was opened, the misunderstanding was eliminated, and the unexpected discovery made the plot turn sharply. Mu Juyi, ecstatic, hurried to make amends to Xue E, who had been wronged, and also attracted laughter from the audience. It is the "button" that stays well and the "baggage" shakes well that the suspense of comics can firmly grasp the audience. Phoenix is also suppressed, formerly known as Tree of Yin and Yang, also known as Ugly Match, was first written and performed by Mei Lanfang.

5. Feng Ming sonorous

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the divination doctor of Chen Guo married his daughter to his son Chen Yi. His wife divination said: "Auspicious means' The Phoenix Emperor is flying in the air, he is in harmony with Qiang Ming, and he was in the Qing Dynasty during the Five Dynasties.". After VIII, it echoed with Jing' "(see the twenty-two years of Zhuang Gong in Zuo Zhuan), that is, men and women are in harmony, and in this statement, husband and wife are bound to be in harmony, which is extremely powerful in future generations.

6. Birds fly to the Phoenix

The Yellow Emperor ascended the throne, conscious that the world was at peace, and wanted to see the legendary Phoenix with his own eyes. To this end, he asked Tian Lao. Tian Lao replied: The appearance of Phoenix is a sign of good luck, and it will only appear in times of peace and prosperity. It's not easy to see it pass by. If you can see it flying among the birds, it will be a golden omen. The yellow emperor was very unhappy after hearing this. He said: since I acceded to the throne, the world has been at peace. Why haven't I seen the shadow of the phoenix? God said: With Chiyou in the east, Shao Hao in the west, Emperor Yan in the south and Zhuan Xu in the north, how can there be peace on all sides? After hearing this, the Yellow Emperor led the troops to crusade, and the world was unified. He saw a big bird with colorful feathers soaring in the sky and countless exotic birds dancing around it. The Yellow Emperor knew that this big bird was the Phoenix, and it was also the auspicious sign that he wanted to see-birds flying towards the phoenix (The Biography of Hanshu Poetry).

7. Qishan in Feng Ming

"Mandarin Zhou Yu" records that when the Zhou Dynasty rose, there were birds singing like phoenix on Qishan in Shaanxi. There is also a saying in Volume I of the Book of Songs in the late Western Zhou Dynasty: "Feng Huang Yu Fei is also rich in heaven ... Feng Huangming is very rich in his post." This is also about Qishan in Feng Ming. Therefore, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the phoenix bird was regarded as a magical auspicious creature, which was quite heavy in the tattoo of the phoenix bird.

8. Phoenix is reborn from the ashes

Guangya: "Phoenix, nominal, full of mother". Xiang Mu flew for 500 years, flew into the Sun Temple and set himself on fire on the altar. The next day, he gave birth to feathers. On the third day, his wings were full, so he resigned from the temple owner and flew away. The astronomical motto in Huainanzi says: "The essence of internal heat is the sun" and the phoenix is the essence of fire, which is the symbol of the ancient phoenix as the sun, and was originally called "Golden Bird". The poem Goddess refers to the birth of new China.

The record in Nirvana Anonymity goes like this: "Anonymity says: the husband is empty, and everything is made by me. People who know everything and be themselves are just saints! What is this? Unreasonable and unholy, unreasonable disregard, rational and holy, saints are the same. So the Emperor of Heaven said: What should Prajna ask for? Shanji said: Prajna can't seek from color, nor can it seek from color. He also said: Seeing the origin means seeing the Dharma, seeing the Dharma means seeing the Buddha, and then the thing is me. Therefore, for people, the mystery is unknown, the hidden ghost is instantaneous, and the total Liuhe is a mirror, and the future is an adult. Ancient and modern, always connected, poor at the end, nothing else. Dzogchen is nirvana. As the saying goes: Nirvana is inseparable from all laws. He also said: all laws are boundless, so bodhi is boundless, so that you can know the way of nirvana and keep the wonderful Covenant. The reason for the wonderful behavior is that it is a mystery, but things are no different from me. I am not foreign, things are mysterious, and they belong to infinity. After going in, it is the first, and after coming back, it will start in the meantime! "How long will it take to get rid of the old?" asked the heavenly daughter. "

9. Very rare

"Rare" is often not used as a metaphor for rare outstanding talents or other rare treasures. Liu Yiqing, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote "Shi Shuo Xin Yu Rong Zhi": Huan Wen, a general in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, also used the word "Mao Feng" to praise Wang Jinglun, the fifth son of Prime Minister Wang Dao: "Jinglun looks like his father. Duke Huan looked at it and said,' Big slaves have feathers.' "Lin, Kirin, the legendary beast." Lin Jiao, like Feng Mao, is also described as a rare and precious preface to Biography of Northern History Wen Yuan: "Scholars are a dime a dozen, and winners are horns. "Now it is often used as a metaphor for rare outstanding talents or other rare treasures.

10. Fengyi has Fengyi.

Phoenix flies gracefully. In ancient times, it was used to describe auspicious signs and feelings. "Biography of Wang Han Mang": "The nectar comes from the earth, the sweet spring comes from the ground, the phoenix comes to the instrument, and the immortal comes down to earth." "Shangshu Yiji": "Xiao Shao is 90%, and the phoenix comes to the instrument." The 80th time of Romance of the Three Kingdoms: "Since Wang Wei ascended the throne, Kirin was born, and the phoenix came to the instrument."

1 1. Play the flute to attract the phoenix

During the Spring and Autumn Period, Qin Mugong tried his best to find a suitable husband for his daughter Nong Yu. One day, Nong Yu dreamed that a young man was riding a phoenix to play the flute, and Qin Mugong sent someone to find a boy who played the flute. The boy's name was Shaw History. Qin Mugong admired Shaw History's talent so much that he betrothed Nong Yu to him. Shaw History and Nong Yu got married happily, because Shaw History is a fairy in the sky and can't stay on earth forever, so Shaw History, Lapras and Nong Yufei flew to heaven. Later, the metaphor of "playing the flute to attract the phoenix" showed the perfection of the flute music law.

Phoenix has a legend: reborn from the fire. According to legend, 500 years ago, a god bird lit incense wood and then rose from the ashes. Gorgeous people no longer die, so it is called immortal bird, that is, phoenix. There is also a saying about Phoenix that Phoenix is the messenger of death, responsible for hooking people's souls. Good people ascend to heaven and bad people enter the earth. At present, the legend of "Phoenix is heady" is still circulating in some superstitious areas.

12. King of Birds

Suzaku Phoenix is the god bird and the king of birds. The ancients said that men were called phoenixes and women were called phoenixes. Later, Phoenix was collectively referred to as; Later, when the dragon and the phoenix matched, the phoenix became the name of the imperial concubine. According to legend, Phoenix evolved from the bird totem of the Yin people in the East. Shan Hai Jing? The Wild West Classic mentioned a colorful bird with three names, namely, Imperial Bird, Suzaku and Phoenix Bird.

Shan Hai Jing? The Three Classics of the South records a kind of bird, which looks like a chicken and has colorful patterns on its body. It's called Phoenix. It shows that the image of Phoenix is very beautiful from the beginning. In the future, it will be the same as the dragon image. The more complicated it is, the more it has a head, a hip, a snake neck, a fish tail, a dragon pattern, a turtle body, a swallow chin and a chicken mouth. (See Huai Nan Zi? Chinese parasol trees don't live, and they don't eat unless they are bamboo. (see "Poetry? Daya？ It sings and dances, and seeing it means that the world is at peace. As the head of the flock, it has tens of thousands of followers. Phoenix died on the mountain. Every July and August, birds come here to mourn it, and it will take seventeen or eighteen days to disperse. Therefore, this mountain is called "Mourning Mountain". (See "Shui Jing Zhu"? Phoenix is the combination and sublimation of hundreds of birds, and its prototype is nothing more than four categories: sunny bird, eagle, peacock and chicken. The northern nationalities in China worship the eagle, the king of birds.

After Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, great changes have taken place in the phoenix, which is basically a chicken and a sparrow, especially the strong wings and the prominent posture of the eagle. The common phoenix in our current artworks is actually the image after the Qing Dynasty, which is composed of pheasant tail, chicken body, comb, eagle eye, eagle claw, eagle neck, peacock feather and mandarin duck feather. Its tone is not as persistent and stable as that of a dragon. 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; The first underworld was in the north. In the Yin and Shang Dynasties, Oracle Bone Inscriptions divined that "divination will point to the north", so Xuan Ming became a northern god again.

Xuanwu, like other three spirits, is also derived from the 28 stars on earth: bucket, ox, female, air, danger, house and wall. However, people after ancient times have the following explanations for Xuanwu. Xuanwu is a tortoise. "Book of Rites Qu Lishang" says: "Line, before Zhu Bird, after Xuanwu. . "Xuanwu" is a tortoise and snake. Supplement to Hong Xingzu's Biography of Chu Ci: "Xuanwu is called tortoise and snake. Located in the north, it is called Xuan. With a scale, it is called martial arts. Xuanwu is a combination of snakes, turtles and snakes. However, Xuanwu was upgraded by later Taoist priests to the Northern Emperor-Emperor Zhenwu. Different from the other three spirits. Other green dragons and white tigers only became the gatekeepers of the mountain temple, and Zhu Bird became the Xuan Nv of another day.

13 Feng Fang.

Let's start with two folk songs: "A female and a male fly into the Purple Palace."

"Phoenix emperor, why don't you fly back to your hometown? Destroy here for no reason? "

Let's start with a handsome man:

The former Qin dynasty almost unified the north. After Qianyan was annexed, the Lord of Yan had no choice but to present his children qinghe princess and Prince Mu Rongchong as gifts to the palace. Both of them were taken in at the same time, pampered in the backyard, and the prince was reduced to a child molester. At that time, Feng Huang was only twelve years old.

That's why a folk song says, "A woman followed a man and both flew into the Purple Palace." Three years later, Mu Rongchong grew up. Because of Wang Meng's persuasion, Fu Jian reluctantly let him be sent out of the palace as the prefect of Pingyang. Until Fu Jian was defeated in the Battle of Feishui in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Mu Rongchong and Yao Chang, etc. Expose their troops in Afang City and attack them. He took revenge by brandishing his sword and succeeded to the throne in Afangcheng, calling him Emperor Wei.

And then said his contact with phoenix:

Coincidentally, A Fang is full of phoenix trees and bamboo. When the legendary Phoenix Emperor saw the phoenix tree, he often lay down to rest and ate bamboo to fill his stomach. What's more, the phoenix lives in Tao and burns in Nirvana. In exchange for three years of shame, Chang' an bloodbath. So, A Fang's green shoots attracted the fire phoenix. In addition, Mu Rongchong's fine print is called Emperor Phoenix. "Phoenix Emperor" is a common spelling of "Phoenix".