Who ate the four beasts?

The four beasts were not eaten, but sealed one by one. Qinglong is the head of the four elephants and was finally sealed by the God of Spring. The white tiger is the head of all animals, but it was finally sealed by the wizard of the wind sent by the gods. Suzaku can make people immortal. Suzaku belongs to fire, so it was finally sealed by Vulcan Zhu Rong. Xuanwu was the worst, and his four legs were interrupted by Nu Wa.

Qinglong-the patron saint of the East in Taoism

Dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation. Since the Yellow Emperor entrusted it to Tianhe and weiser, it has become a symbol of the Chinese nation and even the whole of China. According to oriental legends, the dragon looks like a long snake, the head of a unicorn, the tail of a carp, a bearded face, horns like deer, five claws and a formidable appearance.

Qinglong is a spirit beast in ancient myths and legends. Belonging to traditional culture, it is one of the four elephants. According to the Five Elements Theory, the East is blue, so Qinglong is the God of the East, also known as the "black dragon".

White Tiger

China, the white tiger is the god of war and war. Tigers have many magical powers, such as avoiding evil, praying and punishing evil, promoting good, getting rich and getting married, etc. And it is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also changed from the stars. Among these 28 stars, there are 7 in the west: osmium, building, stomach, ang, bi, Gou and Shen.

Therefore, it is the representative of the west, and its whiteness is due to the west. The five elements belong to gold and the color is white. So it is called white tiger not because it is white, but because it comes from five elements.

rosefinch

In China, the phoenix is a symbol of happiness. There are many kinds of prototypes. Such as golden pheasant, peacock, vulture, mandarin fish, blackbird (swallow) and so on. And it is said to be a Buddhist Dapeng golden winged bird.

According to the phoenix myth, the phoenix has a chicken's head, a swallow's chin, a snake's neck, a fish's tail and five-color stripes. There are five kinds of phoenixes, divided by color: Red Phoenix, Lan Fenghuang, White Swan and Rayna Sue Phoenix, which can also be called Suzaku or Blackbird.

turtle

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; 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.