Is Wuxing related to the Divine Beasts of the Four Directions? What s the relationship?

Five elements: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Gold begets water, water begets wood, wood begets fire, fire begets earth, and earth begets gold. Jin Ke wood, wood Ke earth, earth Ke water, water Ke fire, fire Ke Jin. East: Wood, West: Gold, South: Fire, North: Water, Middle: Earth.

Divine beasts of the four directions: the green dragon is in the east, the white tiger is in the west, the vermilion bird is in the south, and the Xuanwu is in the north.

Qinglong: Oriental.

Suzaku: South.

White Tiger: The West.

Xuanwu: North.

All four of these are the names of the stars.

The green dragon on the left, the white tiger on the right, the Vermilion Bird in the front, and the Xuanwu in the back.

Green Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu.

The East Green Dragon, the West White Tiger, the South Vermilion Bird, the North Xuanwu.

You say it's an animal, there's only a holy beast, a unicorn, and a human, there's only a few main gods in the legend.

If it's an animal, it's a unicorn. If it's a game, make it clear what the game is, I'll tell you.

The original meaning of Xuanwu is Xuanwu, and the ancient sounds of Wu and Shen are connected. 玄, which means black; Yin means yin. Xuan Ming was originally a description of the turtle:

The back of the turtle is black, and the turtle is to invite the turtle to the underworld to ask the first question, bring the answer back, and show it to the world in the form of a divination. Therefore, the earliest basalt was the tortoise. Since then, the meaning of Xuan Ming has continued to expand.

Turtles live in rivers, lakes and seas (including turtles), so Xuan Ming became the god of water; The turtle has a long life, and Xuan Ming has become a symbol of immortality, and the snake will become sluggish before shedding its skin, looking very old, and after shedding its skin, it will become very active, as if it has regained its youth, so the snake was added later; The original underworld was in the north, and Yin Shang's oracle bone divination was 'its divination must be north', so Xuan Ming became the god of the north again.

Chu Ci Far Travel": "Summoning Xuanwu and running to his subordinates." Wang Yi's note:

Hu Taiyin God makes Cheng Wei also. Hong Xingzu added: "The speaker said:

Xuanwu is called a turtle and snake, located in the north, so it is called Xuan, and there are scales and armor, so it is called Wu. 'Cai Yong said: "The northern Xuanwu is the length of the insect.

Anthology" note: 'The turtle and the snake are Xuanwu. and "The Book of Rites· Qu Li":

Before the trip, the vermilion bird and then the Xuanwu. Kong Yingda Shu: "Xuanwu, turtle also."

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Wang Liang: "The name of the Xuanwu Water God." Li Xian's note:

Xuanwu, the god of the north, the combination of turtles and snakes. According to the Xuanwu that the Taoist is the true martial emperor, the Song Dynasty avoided the Xuan, changed the Xuan to the truth, the later generations of Taoists worship the true martial arts, then the turtle and snake two things are placed next to it, Tang Duan Cheng style "Youyang Miscellaneous Tales Zhinuo Gaoxia": "Zhu Taoist scholar, Taihe eight years often travel to Lushan, rest in the stream, suddenly see the pan like a pile of silk, hungry and become a giant tortoise, visit the mountain, the cloud is Xuanwu.

That is, the legendary god monster changes.

The original star gods of the West Heavens were bears and owls, but later because of the totems of the ancient Qiang tribe, when the bear changed to a dragon. And when the Yellow Emperor developed to the east, the totem of the dragon was brought to the east, and the 'Oriental Canglong Constellation' became one, and the Vermilion Bird became the new residence of the phoenix totem in heaven when the south was unified, and finally became the 'dragon and phoenix Chengxiang' due to the integration of the two major tribes. As an ancient totem, it is the east phoenix and the west dragon, and as a star sign, it is the east dragon and the west vermilion bird.

After the Zhou Dynasty, the feudal system was formally established, the idea of the five elements was also matured, the heavenly statue was redivided, and the vermilion bird was placed in the south and worshipped together with the god of Zhurong Fire. And the Western ones worship the white tiger. In the tribal struggle and migration, the dragon in the northwest moved to the east, the phoenix in the east moved to the south, and the tiger in the south moved to the north.

In the Han Dynasty, the concept of the five elements became a unified thought, and then Xuanwu was supplemented to complete the supporting facilities of the 'God of the Four Directions'.

In ancient times, the "Historical Records. Tiangong Shu" 'East Palace Canglong, South Vermilion Bird, West Palace Xianchi, North Palace Xuanwu. 'It's not the white tiger here, it's the salty pond.

And the salty pond is the star of the main grain, the main autumn, because the grain is harvested in the autumn, so it is placed in the autumn, but it is not an animal, how can it be matched with dragons, birds, and turtles to form the four spirits? In "Justice": 'The salty pond is three stars in the five cars, the sky is in the south, and the fish and birds are also.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, he had already raised doubts: 'Canglong, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu, and each total seven nights. As for the salty pool, it is not one star, and it is free to be outside the twenty-eight nights.

There is also an explanation for the salty pond, which is a place for sun bathing. In "Huainanzi. Astronomy:

The sun is out of the Yanggu, bathing in the salty pool, and blowing in Fusang, which is called the morning light'. It can be seen that the salty pond was originally regarded as the sunrise place by the Qiang people, and the salty pond is also the alkaline water lake, which should be the taro lake in the Minshan area, or Qinghai. This proves that the celestial phenomena of the Star Palace worshipped by primitive people do not yet have the concept of green dragons and white tigers.

In the Book of Rites. The so-called "Liyun" said: "Linfeng, turtle and dragon, called the four spirits."

Replace the salty pond that is not an animal with a unicorn. In later generations, there are four spirits and four elephants with tigers.

And because the White Tiger is the god of war, there are many fierce generals who are said to have become the White Tiger Star in the world, such as: Tang Dynasty general Luo Cheng, Xue Rengui father and son, etc. In addition, the white tiger was sucked and released by Taoism, was deified, and became the door god of various temples.

The gods of the four directions were used in ancient times with army arrays, and in the Warring States Period, there were Xuanwu after the former Vermilion Bird, the left green dragon and the right white tiger The green dragon and white tiger Vermilion Bird Xuanwu.

After the rise of Taoism, Qinglong, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, and Xuanwu became the patron saints of Taoism.

Mountains and seas pass through the gods of the four directions, the sentence of the east wood, the mang, the west of the gold, the south, the blessing of the fire, the north, the stiffness of the water.

There's no such place at all, it's all about showing off your prestige, and you don't have to deal with him.

I'm 51js, yes, he's too good to blow, I'm 51, it's so hard that you still don't believe it.