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Originated from the worship of stars in ancient times. In ancient China, the stars in the sky were divided into seven star zones: 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.

2. White tiger

White tiger is also the god of war and war, which originated from the worship of stars in ancient times. The white tiger has many magical powers, such as avoiding evil, avoiding disasters, praying for blessings, punishing evil and promoting good, making a fortune and getting married. It is one of the four spirits, and of course it is also changed from the stars.

It is composed of 28 stars from seven places in the west: Kui, Lou, Stomach, Chang, Bi, Dog and God. So it is the representative of the west, and its white is because the west belongs to gold in the five elements, and its color is white. So white comes from the five elements.

3. Suzaku

Because China is one of the four elephants and one of the four great beasts in traditional culture, it originated from the worship of stars in ancient times. It is a beast representing the south. Its color is red and the season is summer.

The four great beasts are Suzaku, Xuanwu, Qinglong and White Tiger. 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.

4. Xuanwu

Yu's father, the founder of Xia Dynasty in China, was called "Gun", the word Xuanming, or Xuanwu, and helped Shun control the water before the famous Dayu. Because it only uses blocking instead of dredging, it has not succeeded despite the help of the gods. Generally speaking, guns are the embodiment of turtles, while Tu Shanshi, a Xia clan member, thinks snakes are his ancestors.

Extended data

The four great beasts are the legendary beasts in ancient China, namely, Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu, which belong to the combination of ancient mythology and astronomy. Four kinds of animals are represented by different colors: oriental cyan is wood, western white is gold, southern red is fire, northern black is water, and middle yellow is earth. In addition, Huainanzi mentioned that Huanglong, one of the five dragons, is in the middle, which is the length of four beasts.

The so-called sky, left Qinglong, right White Tiger, former Suzaku, and later Xuanwu. Therefore, you can know the order of the sun and the moon in the shade of the class, and you can know the cold and heat of the world by seeing the ice in the bottle. ?

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 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.

That is to say, the stars in the east are like dragons, the stars in the west are like tigers, the stars in the south are like big birds, and the stars in the north are like turtles and snakes. 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; At the turn of spring and summer, Xuanwu rose; At the turn of summer and autumn, white tigers emerge; At the turn of autumn and winter, Suzaku rose, known as the "four great beasts".

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