Why is it called Traveling to the West when a dead person is dead, and Traveling to the West whe

It's all about legends.

1. Journey to the west by cranes.

Journey to the West and the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Calligrapher Wang Xizhi.

The legend is related. It is rumored that in the twilight of Wang Xizhi, he often closes his door to thank guests.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of one year, his son Wang Xianzhi met a monk on the shore of Huijian Lake, and the monk entrusted him to hand over a letter to Wang Xizhi.

After Wang Xizhi opened the letter, he saw the letter and wrote: "Duanyang.

At noon, he returned home by crane, cut off his troubles, and visited the queen mother. After reading the letter, Wang Xizhi walked to Jianhu Lake and saw a white crane by the lake, so he flew away on the egret. Later, people used "the crane to return to the west" as a metaphor for the death of a respected person.

Second, drive the crane Yao Pond.

Driving the crane Yao Pond and the creation ancestor of the Queen Mother of the West.

The legend is related to the legend, the legend Yao Chi is the place where the Queen Mother of the West lives, in the "Notes on the Book of Mountains and Seas".

There is a record that "although the Queen Mother of the West takes Kunlun as her palace, she also has her own cave to leave the palace and a place to rest, and she does not live in a mountain."

In ancient Chinese myths and legends, the Queen Mother of the West, also known as the Holy Mother of Yaochi, is also commonly known as the Queen Mother, the goddess of ancient Chinese mythology, and is Taoist.

Worshiped as the leader of the fairies.

1. Reasons for using Crane Journey to the West:

1) In ancient China, the crane was often regarded as a symbol of longevity, and was greatly influenced by Buddhism, which believed that people would be in the Western Elysium after death, so they compared leaving the world to "returning to the west".

2) As an auspicious spirit bird, the crane is accompanied by the gods. Therefore, there are euphemistic sayings for death such as traveling to the west with a crane, traveling with a crane to immortals, returning from the west with a crane, and becoming an immortal with a crane.

3) Driving the crane to the west is a more euphemistic way of saying that a very old man has passed away. Don't mess around. In addition, there are words such as "driving back to Yaochi" and "ascending to the fairy world early".

4) The origin of the crane journey to the west: The term "crane journey to the west" comes from the legend of the calligrapher Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In his later years, Wang Xizhi closed his doors to thank customers and devoted himself to reading and writing.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, his son Wang Xianzhi came to the shore of Huijian Lake, saw a monk coming to him, and handed over a trust Wang Xianzhi to Wang Xizhi.

Wang Xizhi opened it and looked at it, and the letter wrote: "At noon in Duanyang, take the crane back to the house, cut off your troubles, and visit the queen mother." After reading the letter, Wang Xizhi walked towards Jianhu Lake.

Sure enough, there was a white crane by the lake. Wang Xizhi then rode a white crane and flew into the blue sky. Later, people only regarded the death of a respected person as "Journey to the West".

2. "Driving the Crane Yaochi" describes the reason for the woman's death: In Chinese myths and legends, the Virgin of Yaochi (Queen Mother) was originally a goddess in ancient Chinese mythology, and was later enshrined as the leader of the fairy by Taoism. In the hearts of the Chinese, the image of the Virgin Mary is a graceful and noble, transcendent goddess of kindness, who lives in the sacred realm of Yaochi in Kunlun Mountain.

Yao Chi is located in Kunlun, and Kunlun is a fairyland of myths and legends, so to describe the death of a woman, the word "Yao Chi" is used.

1) The origin of "driving the crane Yaochi": In Chinese myths and legends, the Holy Mother of Yaochi is also known as the Golden Mother, the Queen Mother of the West, and the Queen Mother of the West is referred to as the Queen Mother, also known as the Golden Mother, the Golden Mother Yuanjun, commonly known as the Queen Mother. Legend Kunlun Mountain's Yaochi Holy Realm, the territory is planted with 3,000 years of flowering, 3,000 years of fruiting of the "Queen Mother Peach", the food of immortality, in the ancient Chinese "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty", said that the Holy Mother is stunning and amazing, once gave the peach to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

In "The Biography of Mu Tianzi", it is recorded that Our Lady was elegant and gentle in words and deeds, and invited King Mu of Zhou to have a banquet in Yaochi. However, in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is recorded that the Lady of Yaochi is like a human, with a leopard tail and tiger teeth, a roaring sound that shakes the sky, and her long hair flies, bearing the mandate of heaven, presiding over the punishment of the world, and being responsible for spreading plague viruses and disasters.

When a woman dies, she can be called "driving a crane in Yao Chi" and cannot use "driving a crane", the crane can only be used for men, and a woman can be called a phoenix driving Yao Chi or "driving back to Yao Chi". Otherwise it will be a joke.

The dead man is called Journey to the West, which means that he flies to the Western Elysium by crane to become an immortal, and the female is called Crane Yaochi, which means that he flies to live in Yaochi, and Yaochi refers to the residence of the Queen Mother, which means that women fly to Yaochi to become fairies.

Yaochi is the place where the Queen Mother of the West lives, so when a woman dies, "driving the crane Yaochi" should go to the Queen Mother of the West to report.

Journey to the West refers to the Buddhist holy places in the west to describe men. Yao Chi refers to the fairy.

In ancient China, the crane was often regarded as a symbol of longevity, and was greatly influenced by Buddhism, which believed that after death, the rest of the clothes would be erected in the Western Elysium, so leaving the world was compared to "driving the crane back to the west".

As an auspicious spirit bird, the crane is accompanied by the gods. Therefore, there are euphemistic sayings for death such as driving a crane to the west, driving a crane to the west, driving a crane to return to the west, and driving a crane to become an immortal.