The myths and legends of Kirin 1 Jinshan have many beautiful and moving myths and legends, and almost every scenic spot has a corresponding story. These stories reflect people's desire to pursue a harmonious and happy life from different aspects and play a subtle role in educating people. Some of the most influential:
The legend of Kirin. There is a Shi Jiao in the northwest corner of Jinshan. It is said that forest production is called Linshan because of its name. Because the forest mountain is too small, Kirin moved to a cave in Jinshan, which is now the "Kirin Cave". One day when I went to Qufu, I "spit a jade book at Queli's house", and the article said, "After the decline of water essence, it is king." Yan, the mother of Confucius, was very surprised, so she took the embroidered belt to tie her trumpet. 1 1 months later, Yan zhizai gave birth to Confucius. Jinshan was named "the first peak of Lintai". After 7 1 year, that is, in the spring of 14 years (48 1 year BC), Confucius wept for it. Therefore, the Spring and Autumn Period is also called Lin Jing and Lin Shi. The so-called Confucius is a "unicorn in the sky" based on this. This myth and legend are roughly the same as Wang Jia's narration of different stories in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In addition, there is a legend that "Taurus produces forests".
The myths and legends of "Forest Mountain Producing Forest", "Forest Map Producing Forest" and "Golden Bull Producing Forest" and the historical facts of "Hunting Wild in the West Obtaining Forest" are not only the main contents of the national intangible cultural heritage "Legend of Kirin", but also the main historical origin of Juye being named as "the hometown of Kirin in China".
Myth and Legend of Kirin 2 Long ago, the cow was the unicorn that the jade emperor's daughter rode.
It often goes to the earth to steal people's crops. Once a large area of crops was eaten up, farmers beat it, and it also hit people and bit people. Its teeth are sharp, it can bite people and taste the delicacy of human flesh, so it doesn't eat crops, but eats people exclusively.
One day, a farmer was digging, and Kirin came down from the sky in a cloud, spraying fog in his mouth, covering the earth and yelling loudly to eat the farmer. The farmer has great courage. He held an iron fork, held it up and shouted, "Help!" " "After hearing about it, the farmers who dug around came to help. They couldn't eat the peasants, so they roared even louder and shook the Heavenly Palace.
The mountain soldiers reported to the jade emperor, and the jade emperor came to see the mountain soldiers with them. When he saw it open its mouth to eat farmers, the Jade Emperor shouted, "Dare to eat people!" " Kirin quickly knelt down and repented. The Jade Emperor kicked off its upper teeth and punished it for not eating meat for life. He also ordered Heaven to cut its hoof with a knife, sharpen chopsticks, pierce a hole in its nose, lock a nose ring, and let farmers pull up the plow.
It has a nose ring, which hurts when it is pulled, and it hurts when the hoof is cut in half. Since then, it has obediently become a cow pulling a plow.
Kirin Myth 3 "Hunting for Forests in the Western Expedition" happened in Konosawa, the western border of Shandong at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. The earliest chronicle of China was written in the Spring and Autumn Annals during the Warring States Period: The Biography of Ram and the Biography of Guliangchi written by Gong Yanggao, a historian of the Warring States Period, also recorded this aspect.
"Hunting in the Western Expedition" took place in the year of Gengshen in 39, Zhou (the 14th year of the Spring and Autumn Period), and Confucius' book Spring and Autumn Period was published in this year. At this time, Confucius was seventy-one years old and had stopped writing books. This fully proves that the story of "Confucius alone" that Juye is still circulating is true. Objectively speaking, Confucius is old and has poor energy. But subjectively speaking, being worried is also an important reason. According to legend, in 55 BC1year (in the 22nd year of Lu Aigong), Yan Zai, the mother of Confucius, was pregnant, prayed at Niqiu Mountain and met Kirin to give birth to Confucius. When Confucius was born, his head looked a bit like a mud hill, so he was named Zhong Ni, the word Kong Qiu. Confucius was born in the forest and died in it. He thought it was ominous and immediately wrote an elegy for Kirin: "Tang Yu's world is full of happiness, so what else can he ask for now?" "I'm worried about Linlin." Because of the anxiety of Confucius and the premature death of his only son, Kong Li, he was very sad and finally died in Lu Aigong in the sixteenth year (479 BC). After the death of Confucius, the story of winning Lin Daizuo was widely circulated. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem in "Ancient Poetry", which said, "I hope the saints will stand still, and I won't get it again."
Myth and legend of Kirin 4 Kirin is also widely used in official uniforms. The boudoir emblem of Yipin Guan in Qing Dynasty was decorated with Kirin, which shows that its position is second only to that of dragon. In the Qing Dynasty, only royalty were qualified to wear the dragon symbol. The emperor was Huanglong and Zilong, and the prince, elder brother, Baylor and Beizi were all dragons.
Kirin 5: You can still see the image of Kirin. The most famous unicorn image in China is the unicorn in the tomb of Nan Dynasty. There are many kinds of beasts guarding the site in the tombs of the Southern Dynasties, but they all evolved from the image of unicorns. Outside the Zhongshan Gate in Nanjing, there is a sculpture, which is a symbol of Nanjing and is based on the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Southern Dynasties outside Nanjing. This sculpture is luxuriantly decorated, and its body tends to the image of liger. It is carved from huge stones, and its height is about 3 meters. This sculpture is tall and curved, with open eyes and a short and wide neck. The body decoration of animals is very decorative, and the body feeling is strong and heavy. On the basis of attaching importance to the whole sense, it pays more attention to exaggeration and deformation, making it look magnificent and lively.