How powerful is the candle dragon in The Classic of Mountains and Seas ?

It is said that the candle dragon has the ability to call the wind and rain, and its eyes dominate the day and night. The breath can turn into wind, the exhalation is immediately summer, the inhalation immediately becomes winter, it is the mountain god of Zhongshan.

Very powerful, his every move affects the changes in the surrounding environment, and can call the wind and rain.

The candle dragon is thousands of miles long. Open your eyes for day, and close your eyes for night. Inhale for winter and exhale for summer, can call for wind and rain, master the change of day and night, and the cycle of the four seasons.

Candle Dragon, also known as Candle Jiuyin, the god of Zhongshan in ancient Chinese mythology [1], according to the record in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", the candle dragon is also known as Candle Jiuyin, is the image of a human-faced snake body, red, thousands of miles long, open eyes for day, close eyes for night, inhale for winter, exhale for summer, and can call for wind and rain, do not drink water, do not eat, do not sleep and do not rest.

It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas: "The god of Zhongshan, the name of the day and candle yin, is regarded as day, the eye is night, the blow is winter, and the call is summer." Don't drink, don't eat, don't rest, breathe for the wind.

Thousands of miles long, in the east of no enlightenment. It's a thing. The human face and snake body are red, and they live at the foot of Zhong Mountain.

Northwest overseas, north of Chishui, there is Zhangwei Mountain. There is a god with a snake face and a naked body, and his eyes are straight. Its eyes are obscure, and its sight is clear.

No food, no sleep, no rest; Wind and rain are admonishable. It is the candle nine yin, which is called the candle dragon. “

Huainanzi · Topographical Training" contains: "The candle dragon is in the north of Yanmen, hidden in the mountain of Weiyu, and the sun is not seen, and its gods and men face snakes and have no feet. ”

The Book of Ten Thousand Shapes says: The sun flows in all directions. The ancient sage said: When the candle dragon travels to the east, it is cleared, when it travels to the west, when it travels to the south, when it travels to the north, it is killed.

The candle dragon in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

The Great Wilderness North Classic" cloud: Beyond the Northwest Sea, north of Chishui, there is Zhangwei Mountain. There is a god, the human face is red and the body of the snake is red, the eyes are straight, the eyes are obscure, the sight is clear, the food does not sleep, the wind and rain are the truth. It's the candle nine yin, it's the candle dragon. [2]

Overseas North Longitude "Cloud: The god of Zhongshan, called Candle Yin, is regarded as day, blinded as night, blown as winter, called as summer, does not drink, does not eat, does not rest, and breathes as wind. Thousands of miles long. ......It is a thing, with a red human face and a snake body, and lives at the foot of Zhong Mountain. [6-7]

Chu Ci Tianwen": "If the day is not good, how can the candle dragon shine?"

Guo Pu's note in "The Great Wilderness North Classic" Candle Dragon quotes "Poetry with Divine Mist": "The sky is not enough in the northwest, and there is no news of yin and yang, so there is a dragon and a fire spirit to illuminate the gate of heaven." ”[8]

The Book of Ten Thousand Shapes says: The sun flows in all directions.

The ancient sage of Yiwei Qiankun Chisel Volume" said: "When the candle dragon travels to the east, it is cleared, when it travels west, when it travels south, when it travels to the north, it is killed. ”

There are translations in the original language and in the vernacular.

In addition, the first sentence of the original introduction in the encyclopedia is "beyond the Southeast China Sea", and the book in my hand is written "beyond the Northeast Sea" (my book is published by Yuelu Books), I revised it in the encyclopedia, and I don't know when it will be successfully submitted, so I would like to explain.

It is recorded in the Book of Mountains and Seas:

The god of Zhongshan, the name of the day and candle yin, is regarded as day, the eye is the night, the blow is winter, and the call is summer. Don't drink, don't eat, don't rest, breathe for the wind. Thousands of miles long, in the east of no enlightenment.

It's a thing. The human face and snake body are red, and they live at the foot of Zhong Mountain. Northwest overseas, north of Chishui, there is Zhangwei Mountain, there is a god with a snake face and a red body, and the eyes are straight.

Its eyes are obscure, and its sight is clear. No food, no sleep, no rest; The destroyer or the wind and rain are the confessions. It is the candle nine yin, which is called the candle dragon.

The image characteristics of the candle dragon: the candle dragon is the god of creation in ancient times. The human face is a snake body, red, thousands of miles long, open the eyes for day, close the eyes for night, inhale for winter, exhale for summer, and can call for wind and rain, do not drink water, do not eat, do not sleep and do not rest.

In the Book of Mountains and Seas, the Nine Phoenix and the Candle Dragon are very powerful existences, if which of the two of them is more powerful, I think it is the Candle Dragon, according to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Candle Dragon is thousands of miles long, and it is also the god of Zhangwei Mountain.

The candle dragon is a mountain god with a human face and a snake body, red **, living in the extremely cold land in the north, opening his eyes for day, closing his eyes for night, blowing for winter, exhaling for summer, and calling for wind and rain.

From here, it can be seen that the candle dragon is very powerful.

The candle dragon is even more powerful.

Candle Dragon is not a dragon, it is a personal name. But his status is higher than that of the average dragon.

The status of the phoenix is lower than that of the dragon.

When you open your eyes, you will see day, and when you close your eyes, you will be night. Blow a breath and the world will turn into winter, and if you exhale, it will turn to summer. The body is sinuous and thousands of miles long. The candle dragon is depicted as a god with great powers, blending in with the four seasons and climate of the world, as if it were a god in charge of the laws of nature.

There are many theories about the origin of the candle dragon, such as the sun theory, the opening god theory, and the dragon star theory. At present, the more academic and most recognized statement is the "Aurora Theory".

First of all, opening and closing your eyes can affect the day and night of the world, which is inevitably reminiscent of the polar day phenomenonAt the same time, it is also in line with the saying that there are two seasons in winter and summer. Moreover, the ancients described the secluded mountain where they lived as "the ice does not see the sun, the sky is white and the cold is condensed", which is also very similar to the north. The aurora is a phenomenon that exists in the northern high latitudes, and in the Mohe area, polar day and polar night are also common.

Therefore, it can be speculated that the ancients had difficulty explaining the aurora, so they used mythological figures to explain it.

At the same time, the aurora itself is gorgeous and colorful, like a long dragon soaring into the sky, and the ancients can understand that they imagined it as a dragon. And the so-called "snake body and red" may be the red aurora that observers encounter rarely. According to the bronze statue unearthed in Sanxingdui, it is guessed that the eyeball is protruding from the eyeball surface, and the long straight eye that stretches outward (that is, the three-dimensional rectangular eye) is also consistent with the pulsating phenomenon of the aurora.

Under various researches, the first to be selected by Kanda of JapanPut forward the idea that "the candle dragon is the aurora". Now, that statement is almost unequivocal.

In the era when theoretical knowledge was relatively backward, the ancients relied on imagination to explain natural phenomena, and we now rely on science to prove it. It may be less fantasy and magic in comparison, but it is also a deeper exploration of the world.

There is a saying that the colors of the aurora themselves are colorful.

When we see the aurora, the shape of the aurora is similar to that of the candle dragon, so we will naturally associate it with each other.

There is no definite evidence whether the so-called candle dragon recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is an aurora, because the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a work that records fantasy, and many of the things in it are imaginary and may not exist at all.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" records a lot of what the society saw at that time, and the strange thing is that this thing recorded in it should be the aurora we see now, which is also very magical.