What are the 12 Demonic Beasts of Ancient China?

The four great monsters of ancient Chinese legends.

Refers to the four murderers, Emperor Shun.

The four fierce gods exiled to the four directions.

1. Chaos: Chaos is one of the four fierce beasts of ancient Chinese mythology, according to the "Zuo Biography".

According to the records, the four murderers are: "Chaos" with an image like a huge dog, "Taotao" with a human head and sheep body and long eyes under his armpits, and "Qiqi", a big tiger with wings.

and the "梼杌" with a human head and tiger legs and wild boar tusks.

According to "Historical Records, Volume 1, Five Emperors Benji No. 1", "The former Emperor Hong's family has no talent, a hidden thief, a good **, and the world is called chaotic." ”

Interpretation: Once upon a time, the Dihong clan had an unsuccessful son, who (usually) covered up (others') good deeds, concealed (his own) sins, and did bad things, and the people of the world called him "chaos".

2. Poor Qi: Poor Qi, Chinese mythology.

One of the legendary four ancient murderers, mainly recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, the North of the Sea", it is said that Qiqi looks like a tiger, has a pair of wings, likes to eat people, and will start eating from people's heads, and is a vicious beast.

However, also in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", the article "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Classic of the West Mountains" mentions another image of Qiqi, who looks like a cow and has a hedgehog.

The hair is very different from that described in the "Hai Nei Bei Jing". However, both are fierce beasts that like to eat people, and there is no difference in this regard.

It is said that Qiqi often flew to the scene of the fight, ate the reasonable party, and bit off the nose of the loyal person; If someone commits an evil deed, Poor Qi will catch the beast.

Give it to him and encourage him to do more bad things. The ancients also called the kind of people who are not careful, distant gentlemen and close to villains as poor Qi.

3. 梼杌. 梼杌 (táo wù), also known as Arrogant, is one of the four murderers of antiquity in Chinese mythology. The so-called "four murderers" first referred to the four brutal tribal leaders in ancient times, and later the four monsters that were made up as their tribal totems.

4. Gluttony. Gluttony is a kind of mysterious monster in ancient Chinese myths and legends, named roe deer owl, the ancient book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Second Classic of the North" introduces its characteristics: its shape is like a sheep's body and human face, the eyes are in the armpits, and the tiger's teeth are human hands.

Its name can be compared to the greedy people, and people generally call such people "gluttons". In the "Zuo Biography", it is recorded that Tao Tao is the son of the Jinyun clan, not the ninth son of the dragon.

One. The so-called gluttonous pattern is a common pattern on bronzes, which is believed to depict the face of the beast. This pattern appears on the jade of the Liangzhu culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, but the gluttonous pattern is more common on bronzes, especially Dingshang, which has been found on the bronzes of the Xia culture in Erlitou.

The four fierce beasts of ancient China are the incarnations of the four "great evildoers", that is, the three seedlings, the donkey, the gonggong, and the kun, all of whom were killed because they rebelled against the power, and their spirits were immortal after death, and they were insulted as "evil demons" by those in power.

That is, the four major demonic beasts are the four fierce beasts, which correspond to each other: 饕餮 (tao tie), chaos, poor qi and 梼杌 (tao wu).

The four major monsters are: gluttony, chaos, poor and strange.

They are: gluttony, chaos, poor and 梼杌.

Gourmand. Chaos.

Poor Qi. 梼杌.

Vermilion Bird, Green Dragon, White Tiger, Xuanwu, Great Divine Beast.

Gluttony, year, thousand-year-old dragon, Chi You. The landlord believes in me and wishes LZ good health and all the best [ask for adoption].

Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu.

One of the top ten Warcraft: Heavenly Warcraft:

The name of the legendary ancient monster. There is no class, and the eight wings of the rib are ominous things, and they were born in the ancient flood era. With Pangu fighting force for three days and decapitating the bones to Mount Tai and the town, Fang Ping.

Two of the Top Ten Warcraft: Warcraft:

Spirits, formless and colorless, are born of the Heavenly Demon Yuan Spirit, and the Emperor of Heaven uses the fiefdom of the Golden Black Strike to Demon in the Stygian Mountain. Death. The earth monsters are not allowed to come out of the Stygian Mountain.

Three of the Top Ten Warcraft:

The wolf is the form of the heavenly demon spirit attached to the wolf, and lives in Yin Mountain because he is not afraid of the light of the sun and the moon with the wolf body. Sexual addiction.

Four of the Top Ten Warcraft: Dark Warcraft:

Naipangu opened the sky, was born in the flood wilderness, wandered in the underworld for fear of the golden crow, and divided the land with the king of Jizo to control the ghosts.

Five of the Top Ten Warcraft: Flame Warcraft:

It was the flames of Pangu that opened the world, and the golden crow was not suitable for it. He lives in the extreme south of the Yan Valley. There is no dispute with heaven and earth.

Six of the Top Ten Warcraft Hatred Warcraft:

It is a demonic beast composed of hatred gathered by the unjust souls of the underworld, not afraid of the spirit of the sun and the spirit of darkness, and its body is special and cannot be controlled.

The Seven Wind Demonic Beasts of the Ten Great Demonic Beasts: It was the hurricane that turned into a hurricane when Pangu opened the sky, ascending to the sky and entering the earth, crisscrossing the Three Realms. There are different races, such as the god of heaven and wind. The theory of the wind and demons in the world.

Eight of the Ten Great Demonic Beasts: Ice Demonic Beasts: It is the era of the flood and famine, transformed by the water element, and is born in a place where the spirit of the sun in the extreme north cannot shine.

Nine of the Ten Demonic Beasts War Demonic Beasts: It is an evil demon rebelled by the ancient gods, who pursues power too much, but is bound by power and is violent, rebellious, with the vicious nature of the demon and the noble temperament of the gods.

The Ten Bright Demonic Beasts of the Ten Demonic Beasts: It is the transformation of the primordial spirit outside the Three Realms of the ancients, pursuing peace and love. Fearing the Golden Crow, he dwells in the northern Stygian Sea.

Ancient Divine Beasts refer to more than a dozen kinds of divine beasts found from ancient books, such as Bai Ze, Kui, Phoenix, Qilin, Hanji, Hedgehog, Xuan, Chongming Bird, Bi Fang, Gluttony, Fei Fei, Zhu Qian, Chaos, Qingji, etc. [1]