Nuwa: What is the reason why Fuxi s appearance is a snake tailed human body?

Why are Nuwa and Fuxi human heads and snake bodies, not snake heads and human bodies?

In fact, this represents the two-sided nature of people:

The head of the person is above, which means that the rational level of the person is above, and the head of the person has wisdom and rational thinking;

The snake body is below, which means that the human instinct level is below, and the snake body has the instinctive characteristics of animals:

These include reproduction (mating), rebirth (molting), and eternity (ring winding, long hibernation).

What does the whole picture mean? Why in tombs?

In addition to the meaning of the human head and snake body itself, Fu Xi and Nuwa hold the rules in their hands, and the sun and moon above their heads and feet, together form a common theme of expression: that is eternal time and space!

The rules can be drawn in circles, and the moments can be drawn squares, symbolizing the round sky and the place, representing the spatial nature of the universe;

The sun on both shoulders and the moon on the tail, and the day and month symbolize the movement of the sun and the moon, representing the temporal nature of the universe.

As for why this silk painting was used in the tomb, Yang Sir boldly speculated here that it may be intended to replace the time and space of the deceased, so as to bring rebirth and eternity to it!

A fixed schema of the image of Fuxi Nuwa.

From these silk paintings, we will find that there is actually a pattern to be found:

1.The facial image of the characters is by no means fixed, and is generally related to the social customs of the time, so there are both typical Tang people and the image of the Hu people in the Western Regions.

2.The upper body is dressed and embraced, and even the arms are in the same sleeve; The lower body shows the intersection of snake tails, which are generally overlapped by three lines, and the patterns are different.

3.Fuxi is located on the left side, holding a moment (representing the square); Nuwa is on the right, holding a gauge (representing a circle). Fuxi holds the direction of the moment mostly to the inside, while Nuwa holds the direction of the rule more upward.

4.In the middle above the heads of the two people, the image of the sun wheel is expressed; At the tail of the two**, the image of the moon wheel is expressed.

What should be steamed is this harmony between man and nature, because there is a part of God and animals.

Nuwa's snake body is a beetle snake, also known as a teng snake.

Teng Snake, a "beetle snake", also known as the flying snake, is a kind of snake that can soar through the clouds and mist, and is a kind of fairy beast. Another is said to be one of the stars, and there is a saying of "hooking Chen Teng snake". From "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of Zhongshan".

There are many records of this in ancient Chinese literature, called "divine beasts", which have many representative meanings. The allusion to the word beetle snake comes from the "Xunzi Persuasion" "The beetle snake flies without feet, and the flying squirrel has five skills and is poor", which refers to the fact that although the beetle snake has no feet, it can soar through the clouds and fog more than the multi-limbed flying squirrel and swim in the air, which is a metaphor for mortals who should concentrate on doing things consistently, and will eventually succeed.

Erya Shiyu also mentions "beetle" that is, "beetle snake", and Guo Pu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty made a note for it, referring to the beetle snake as "a dragon, which can rise clouds and swim in it".

Nuwa:

She is a prominent ancient goddess in the belief of the Chinese nation, and the study of her has always been a long-standing topic in the history of related academic studies. Among them, the question of the origin of Nuwa's beliefs.

The enigmatic question of where the myths and beliefs of Nuwa originated and originated has aroused the interest of many scholars at home and abroad, and has long attracted them to pour enthusiasm, courage and wisdom into this thorny path, resulting in all kinds of speculations and inferences.

The sentence that all living beings are equal has the wisdom and virtue of a Buddha. Dexiang means that all living beings can evolve into the form of heaven and man, the pyramid is a wolf-headed human body, God's door is a winged angel, Nuwa's human body is a snake tail, and the beast system, the wing system, and the scale system are the forms under the heavenly and human beings. Nuwa created a man, but said that she was the descendant of the dragon, and inferred that the dragon was the low state of Nuwa, so the state of Nuwa should be the tail of the dragon.