Ask for the origin of Wushan Tianfeng? And the origin of the zodiac stone, thank you

One of the Ten Scenic Spots of New West Lake.

10. Wushan Tianfeng.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was called Wushan, in the southeast of West Lake, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang. The mountain is undulating, stretching into the urban area, with the Qiantang River on the left, overlooking the West Lake on the right, it is formed by the small hills such as Baoyue, Emei, Qianshan, Ziyang, Qibao, Yunju, etc., the mountain extends into the urban area, and the mountain height is not more than 100 meters. In those years, fishermen went to the sea to fish and then dried their nets here, which was called the net mountain; In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the border of western Wu, so it was named Wushan; It is also said that for the sake of Wu Zixu, Wu is called Wu, so there is a Zixu Temple in the mountain, so it is called Xu Mountain; In the middle of Wu Yue in the fifth dynasty, there was a city god temple on the mountain, also known as the city god mountain; In the Tang Dynasty, it was mostly called Qingshan.

Now it is commonly known as Wushan, and it is a famous spot in Hangzhou. The couplet on the top of the mountain "Jianghu Huiguan Pavilion" follows the inscription of Xu Wenchang of the Ming Dynasty, and points out the artistic conception of "Wushan Tianfeng", and the couplet is: Eight hundred miles of lakes and mountains, I know what year it is a picture; 100,000 fireworks, all belong to the platform here.

Zodiac Stones:

Wushan Duoqi Stone, the most famous is located in this Wushan Jindi Mountain under the "Zodiac Stone". The original name of the 12 zodiac stones was "the twelve peaks of Wushan".The people of Hangzhou resemble rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs and other animals because of these stone images.

This kind of stone forest landscape is called "stone buds" in geology. On the other side of the zodiac stone, there is a lying stone with an image very similar to a soup spoon, which we call "scoop stone".

Hangzhou Wushan Tianfeng Chinese pinyin is as follows:

Hangzhou Wushan Tianfeng háng zhōu wú shān tiān fēng

The 12 zodiac signs are the 12 animals in China that match the 12 earthly branches with the year of birth, namely the rat, the ugly ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake, the horse, the sheep, the monkey, the rooster, the dog, and the pig. The origin of the zodiac is related to animal worship.

This is a legend: when Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor wanted to choose twelve animals as palace guards, the cat asked the mouse to sign up, and the mouse forgot about it, but the cat was not selected, and since then he has formed a feud with the mouse. The elephant also came to the race, and was driven away by the rat in the nose, and the rest of the animals, originally pushed the cow as the leader, but the mouse ran to the back of the cow, and the pig also coaxed, so the rat ranked first, and the pork chop last.

The tiger and the dragon were not convinced, and were named the king of the mountains and the king of the sea, ranking behind the rat and the ox. The rabbit was not convinced, and raced with the dragon, and ended up in front of the dragon. The dog was upset and bit the rabbit in a fit of rage, for which he was punished in the penultimate place.

Snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, and chickens also went through a contest and arranged their positions one by one, and finally formed the order of rats, oxen, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, and pigs.

During the Yin Shang period, ten characters such as A, B, C, and D were invented to calculate and record the number, and later those who studied numerology called it the heavenly stem, and made it use it in combination with the earthly branches, such as Jiazi, Yichou, etc., which were used to calculate the year, month, day, and hour.

According to legend, 12 kinds of animals are used to replace the 12 earthly branches, which represents the 12 moon orders, which is the masterpiece of Dongfang Shuo in the Han Dynasty.

It is clearly recorded that Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote the "Treatise on Balance" in the "Words and Poisons", in which he mentioned the names of twelve animals. The use of the zodiac to calculate the year also began in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The canonical records of the 12 zodiac signs

The 12 zodiac signs were first found in the world's first collection of poetry, the Book of Songs. "The Book of Poetry, Xiaoya, Che Attack" said: "On an auspicious day, I am sent to a horse." It is also seen in "The Book of Rites, Moon, Season and Winter": "Cattle are unearthed to send cold air." ”

Wang Chong's famous work "On Balance" in the Eastern Han Dynasty is regarded as the earliest document to record the 12 zodiac signs.

"On Balance and Potential" contains: "Yin, wood also, its birds, tigers." 戌, soil also, its fowl, dogs also.

Noon, Ma also. Child, rat also. Unitary, chicken too.

Mao, rabbit also. ......Hai, pig also. No, sheep too.

Ugly, cow too. ......Si, snakes too. Shen, monkey also.

In the above quotation, there are only eleven zodiac signs, and the missing one is the dragon. The book "Words and Poisons" also said: Chen is a dragon, Si is a snake, and the position of Chen and Si is in the southeast. In this way, the zodiac signs are complete.

Zhou Li, Chunguan, Feng Xiangshi contains: "The palm is ten and two years old, ten has two months, ten has two chens, ten days, and twenty-eight stars, and distinguishes its narrative to meet the heavenly position." "The division of time is progressive, one year and twelve years, one year and twelve months, and one day and twelve hours.

Liu Xian's "Guangyang Miscellaneous Records" in the Qing Dynasty quoted Li Changqing's "Songxia Pavilion Words": "Why is the son a rat? Said: The sky is open to the son, and if it is not consumed, its gas will not be opened.

Rats, insects also. So the night has not yet been young, and the rat has to be ordered, so the son is a rat. The earth is ugly, and the ox is the thing that opens the ground, so the ugliness belongs to the cow.

Life is born, and there is life and death. The murderer, the tiger, the yin, the fear. is terrifying Mo Ruohu, so Yin is a tiger.

Offenders, at sunrise. Japan is out of the body, and contains the essence of the Taiyin jade rabbit, so it is a rabbit.

Chen, the hexagram of March, when the dragons are raining, so Chen belongs to the dragon. The hexagram of April, the grass is luxuriant, and the snake has its place. Also, when the snake does not go to the road, it belongs to the snake.

The noon, the anode and the yin are born. Horses, to the healthy and not off the ground, Yin also, so noon belongs to horses.

Sheep gnaw on the grass of the time and thrive, so it does not belong to the sheep. When Shen, the sun sets and the ape cries, and stretches out the arms, such as the number of gas, the chaos will be rampant, so Shen is a monkey.

When the moon rises, the moon is the body, which contains the essence of the golden rooster, so it belongs to the chicken. At that time, the pig did not know anything other than the diet, so it belonged to the pig. ”

Do you know the origin of the legend of the 12 zodiac signs?

In ancient times, there were no tigers, only lions. Later, the Jade Emperor replaced it.

The tiger guards of the heavenly palace are very powerful, whoever competes with him, he is not dead or injured, the birds and beasts on the ground are doing nonsense, the Jade Emperor sent the tiger down to suppress the beasts, and the tiger learned that lions, bears, and horses were the three most powerful animals at that time. He specifically challenged these three animals, with the tiger's bravery and superb martial arts connection defeated the lion, bear, horse, and other evil beasts fled when they heard the wind, and hid in the uninhabited forest wilderness, the world was moved by joy, thanks to the tiger for making great contributions to the human world, the Jade Emperor decided to make up the beast king tiger as one of the twelve zodiac signs.

It is said that when heaven and earth were born in the Son, at the beginning of life, there were no gaps, and the gas could not escape, and the matter could not be used. The rat has the magical power to open the celestial body, and the child is a rat. The mouse opened the crack between heaven and earth, and the ox came out to plough the ground, so that when it was ugly, it was an ox.

Legend was born in Yin, the word "Yin" has the meaning of awe, in ancient times people were most afraid of tigers, and Yin was a tiger. It has entered the early morning, but the sun has not yet come out, and it is the moon that illuminates the earth, and the only animal in the moon palace is the "jade rabbit", so it belongs to the rabbit. Legend has it that Chenshi is the time when the dragons are raining, and it is natural to belong to the dragon at this time.

Snakes are good at using grass to hide their whereabouts, and it is said that snakes do not swim on the road where people walk, and cannot hurt people, so they belong to snakes. At noon, the yang energy reaches the limit, the yin energy is just about to be generated, and the horse cannot run without the ground, which is a yin animal, so it belongs to the horse at noon. Legend has it that the sheep ate the grass in the future, but it does not affect the regeneration of the grass, and it belongs to the sheep in the future.

Shen has the meaning of "stretching", and the monkey is the best at stretching and climbing, so Shen is a monkey. At this time, the chickens began to return to the nest, and at this time it was the chickens. When it gets dark, the dog begins to "work" and watch the house and the yard, which is a dog.

It was night, everything was silent, the heavens and the earth were chaotic, and the pig, like the chaos of the heavens and the earth, knew nothing except "eating", and the time was naturally a pig.

Dashu copy

The mountain is about 10 kilometers away from the city center, with an area of 8,500 acres and an altitude of 284 meters

The only mountain in the suburbs. The Dashu Mountains are the remnants of the Daqian Mountains, the mountains are high in the southeast and low in the northwest, which are oval in shape, and are formed by volcanic eruptions. Volcanic relics such as volcanic cones, waterfalls, volcanic rocks, and volcanic necks that should have been preserved in ancient volcanoes have been preserved intact to this day.

According to "Erya-Shishan", "Shu" means "alone", because there is no Gangfu in Dashu Mountain, just a lonely one.

Mountain, so it is called Shu Mountain. According to the "Luzhou Mansion Chronicle" record: "There are Shu monks who settle here, even homesick water to tin Zhuodi, the spring bubbles out, tastes the taste of Qutang Gorge, because it is called Shujing." Therefore, some people say that Shushan is named after this.

Comparatively speaking, the former statement is more reliable. But it's hard to verify.

The latter statement is mostly a kind of folklore, and it can't be said that there is no such possibility, but this invisibly seems to add to the magical color of Dashu Mountain, thank you.

Cows, cow tempers, or mad cow disease are all origins.

Dogs, I'm a dog too, and I'm also crazy sometimes.