God beast is a very popular existence. What are the four ancient Warcraft?

Qinglong: In ancient China, the stars in the sky were divided into seven star zones, namely "Three Walls" and "Four Elephants". "Three Walls" is the "Wei Zi Wall", symbolizing the palace; "Taiweiyuan" symbolizes the administrative organization; The "sky wall" symbolizes the bustling market.

These three walls are arranged in a triangle around Polaris. There are four elephants around the three walls: East Black Dragon, West White Tiger, South Suzaku and North Xuanwu. In other words, the stars in the East are like a dragon. As the earth revolves around the sun, the stars in the sky change with the seasons. Every evening at the turn of winter and spring, the black dragon appears.

There is also a part in the dragon's heart, which some people call' fire', which is related to sunny and rainy weather, and because Qinglong belongs to wood, it is also Jupiter's old age. After the rise of Taoism, these four spirits were also given names to facilitate human beings to call them. Qinglong is called "Meng Zhang". In many dynasties, some monarchs took Qinglong as their title. On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, China people call it "February 2, when the dragon rises", which symbolizes the return of spring to the earth and the revival of everything.

White Tiger: In ancient China, the stars in the sky were divided into seven star zones, namely "Three Walls" and "Four Elephants". The so-called "wall" is the "city wall". "Three Walls" is the "Wei Zi Wall", symbolizing the palace; "Taiweiyuan" symbolizes the administrative organization, and "Tianshi College" symbolizes the bustling market. As the earth revolves around the sun, the stars in the sky change with the seasons. At the turn of summer and autumn, the white tiger came out.

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. White tiger usually appears on the stone tomb door of Han dynasty, or is carved separately on both sides of the tomb lintel with Qinglong as a portrait to ward off evil spirits.

Suzaku: Suzaku is one of the four elephants in Han traditional culture and one of the four ancient beasts. According to the theory of five elements, it is a god beast representing the south, with red color and summer season. 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. Suzaku is one of the four spirits, and like the other three spirits, it comes from the stars, which is the general name of the seven nights in the south: well, ghost, willow, star, Zhang, wing and bird. Scarlet, like fire, the south belongs to fire, hence the name Phoenix. It also has the characteristics of being far from fire, also called fire phoenix, just like the immortal birds in the west.

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. Xuan means black; Ghost means yin. At first, Xuan Ming described the tortoise's divination as follows: the tortoise's back is black, and the tortoise's divination is to invite the tortoise to the underworld to ask questions, bring back the answers and show 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 becomes a symbol of immortality. It turned out that the underworld was in the north, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Shang Dynasty was divined, so Xuan Ming became a northern god.