Ancient China Feng Shui masters believed that the brave were auspicious beasts who turned disasters into blessings. From ancient times to the present, emperors to the people have paid great attention to the collection and wearing of magic. Legend has it that magic not only has the function of auspiciousness to ward off evil spirits, but also has the function of saving houses, turning the old into the young and promoting marriage. In China, there is a custom of decorating "magic", which has rich meanings and people believe that it can bring joy and good luck. In ancient times, people often used magic as the name of the army.
Chinese name
A mythical wild animal
Foreign name
Brave army
use
Ward off evil spirits, town houses, etc.
spell
Pisi
Another name
To ward off evil spirits, you have a unique talent and a hundred solutions.
Myths and legends
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The Guardian of Nanjing East Gate-The Brave and Fearless
Magic is a kind of god beast in ancient myths and legends of China. It is fierce and powerful. It is responsible for patrolling the sky to prevent monsters, plagues and diseases from disturbing the heaven.
Legend has it that the brave man broke the dogma, and the jade emperor punished him for only eating money from all directions, swallowing everything without diarrhea, making a fortune and not getting in, which was extraordinary. After the story spread, this animal was regarded as making money. Many people in China wear brave jade products, which is the story.
brief introduction
A mythical wild animal
A brave man is like a tiger and leopard, with a dragon-shaped head and tail, a golden color like jade, a pair of wings on his shoulders that can't be unfolded, a corner on his head and a backward tilt.
Legend has it that raccoons are a fierce beast, but this beast is divided into male and female, the male is called raccoon and the female is called raccoon. In ancient times, this beast was divided into one horn or two horns. One horn was called "Tianlu" and the other two horns were called "evil spirits". Most shapes are single-angled.
Many people think that the fearless animal now is the giant panda. According to Records of the Five Emperors, more than 4,000 years ago, the Yellow Emperor tamed tigers, leopards, brave animals and beasts (giant pandas) to fight for the army and defeated Emperor Yan in Hanquan (now Zhuolu County, Hebei Province).
In ancient times, it was also used to refer to brave soldiers. In the Beijing Opera "Lost Street Pavilion, Empty City Plan, Chop Ma Su", Zhuge Liang once wrote a lyric "Each is his own master", and "courage" means hero.
In the south, some people call it a "monster" or "four unlike". In China, there is a tradition of decorating "God beast". Like dragons, phoenixes and unicorns, mythical animals are considered to bring happiness and good luck.
Jade carvings are generally prone, some with jade money in their mouths and some lying on jade money. People like to tie jade money in their mouths with red lines, or tie ropes to the tails of animals to play with.
According to records, it is shaped like a lion with wings, and ancient fabrics, military flags, hooks, printed buttons and bell buttons are often used as decorations to ward off evil spirits.
the Forbidden City
Forbidden city collection
Jade to ward off evil spirits, Han, length 13.2 cm, width 4.8 cm and height 8.6 cm. Jade material is blue-brown, carved with different animals, lying, round eyes, mouth opening, horns on the top of the head, wings and long tail.
In the Han Dynasty, the plastic arts developed greatly. Many works about animals and people are vivid and widely used. Among them, animals with different shapes are the most striking. These animals are endowed with supernatural characteristics and have strong momentum in appearance. At present, several pieces of this kind of jade have been found in the archaeological excavation of the Han Dynasty site, and there are also a few remains in the jade handed down from generation to generation. This jade beast is typical of this kind of works because of its majestic shape, fierce expression, high modeling expression and high technological level. This object has a certain weight and a low center of gravity, so it can be used as a jade town.
Forbidden City Wenchuang
Animals in China bear the romantic cultural color of ancestors, shape concrete images and express abstract natural thoughts. Every god beast is the condensation of a part of our China culture.
The creative design of the brave warrior in the Forbidden City fully draws on the spiritual characteristics of jade in the Forbidden City collection to ward off evil spirits, and its shape is lovely, smart and dignified. The overall color is bright and bright, full of vitality, the corners of the mouth rise, and there is no sense of distance, which makes people feel intimate and affectionate. Eyebrows are enlarged and prominent, vivid and full of spirituality.