What are Qinglong, Baihu, Xuanwu, Suzaku, Gouchen and Tengshe?

1, Qinglong is one of the four elephants in China traditional culture. Since the pre-Qin period, Qinglong has been a god beast representing Tai Hao and the seven nights in the East. When the theory of five elements began to rise, its symbolic significance was more than A, B and Spring. Among the 28 constellations in China, the ancients imagined the combination of the seven eastern constellations-horn, sound, fork, room, heart, tail and dustpan as the image and name of a dragon.

2. The white tiger is regarded as a god beast, one of the four western spirits and four elephants. The theory of five elements rises, and the four images are combined with the five elements. The white tiger in the west means more about gold in the five elements. The white tiger symbolizes power and the army, so many places named after the white tiger in ancient times are related to the military, such as the white tiger flag in the ancient army and the white tiger statue on the military symbol.

3. Xuanwu is a spirit beast in ancient myths and legends, belonging to one of the four elephants in traditional culture, namely Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku and Xuanwu Four Holy Beasts. Since the pre-Qin period, it has been a god beast representing Zhuan Xu and the seven nights in the north, but in the Han Dynasty, the theory of five elements began to rise, and its symbolic significance increased the benevolence and winter. Twenty-eight lodgings, Xuanwu is the general name of seven lodgings in the north (bucket, cow, female, empty, dangerous, house and wall).

4. Suzaku is one of the four images in traditional culture, and it is also one of the so-called "four spirits" in the picture of Saint Fu Huang. Since the pre-Qin era, it has been a god beast representing Emperor Yan and the seven nights in the south, but by the time the Five Elements Theory began to rise, its symbolic significance surpassed Ding Bing and Summer. Many people think it is a phoenix or a kind of phoenix, but in fact Suzaku is very different from Phoenix, and Suzaku, as one of the four spirits in the sky, is more noble than Phoenix, one of the four spirits in the Book of Rites.

5. Gouchen is a unicorn. What is used in astronomy now is generally called Gou Chen. It belongs to the alpha star Ursa minor in the constellation system, which is also the Polaris.

6. Viper: The flying snake in ancient books. Snakes are false, less true and less true, cunning and treacherous, and more worried and suspicious: more false, empty words and false faith, nothingness is hard to rely on, insincerity, falsehood, less true and less true, believing in the main deficiency, the main deficiency, hypocrisy and cunning, and not keeping promises.

The ancient six beasts refer to dragons, white tigers, basalts, suzaku, hooks and snakes. These six animals played an important role in China's divination. Taoist magic and Liu Yizhong often involve six ancient beasts. China also recorded many rare animals in ancient times.