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Phoenix essence Phoenix bird Originally refers to the male bird in the phoenix bird, after the phoenix combination, become A surname For short. China Myth and legend Hit the mark The king of birds .
In China's ancient totem age, it was regarded as a divine bird and worshipped. A parable of those who are holy. It's been a long time, yes Primitive society The Rui bird in people's imagination has gradually evolved through the embellishment of its original image. [1] There are references to its image Red belly chicken Etc. Birds .
Bongyo dragon , Lin, turtle together and called "four spirits of rites". [3] Also regarded as the bird of Chinese spirit, is the original ancestors Sun worship and Bird totem Fusion and deification. "Tanjin Collection" "Yu Jia Sheng should be dragon, Ying Long sheng Phoenix" and other records can be seen, Ying Long The ancestor of the phoenix. [7]
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Red phoenix, blue Green phoenix yellow Yuanchu , white swan And purple 鸑 zhuo
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"Shang Shu · Yu Shu · Yiji" recorded: "Xiao Shao 90%, Phoenix emperor to the instrument." Kong Yingda biography: "Male said phoenix, female said emperor." To its general name, it is only said phoenix. "Bird Book" records: "phoenix male female. Phoenix, Hong front, Lin rear, snake head, fish tail, dragon pattern, turtle body, swallow chin, chicken beak, parallel wings. The first load of virtue, the top of the righteousness, carrying benevolence, the heart holds loyalty, the wings clip the letter, the feet. Small bell, big drum. Do not peck at the raw grass, five pick ready. Fly, the birds follow. Out, then Wang Zhengping, state Dao. Also say rui 鶠."
In the late Western Zhou Dynasty, "The Book of Songs, Daya, Vol.," there is a saying: "The phoenix is flying, but it is also Fu in the sky."
" Erya " Guo Pu Note:" cockshead , snake neck, swallow chin, The back of the turtle Fishtail, five-colored, about six feet tall."
"The first Nanshan Classic of the mountains and Seas" : its shape is like a chicken, named Phoenix. [4] " Shan Hai Jing · Overseas West Jing ":" Phoenix Emperor Eggs, people eat them; The people drink the nectar and want what they want." "The Classic of Mountains and Seas · The Great Wilderness West" records: "There are five birds, one is the emperor bird, one is the Luan bird, and one is the phoenix bird."
"The Book of Mountains and Rivers · Tuzan" says that the phoenix has five lines of image characters: "The first text says virtue, the wing text says shun, the back text says righteousness, the belly text says faith, and the Yin text says benevolence." [2]
"The Analects of Confucius · Zihan" recorded: Confucius said: "The phoenix bird does not come, the river does not come out of the map, I have already husband!"
The Western Han Dynasty Clothes Mirror Ode Inscription: "Right white tiger Xi left canglong under the black crane Xi phoenix." [9]
Han Dynasty Xu Shen In... Shuowen Jiezi "Phoenix" said: "From the country of the Oriental gentleman, flying four seas, Kunlun, drink. A pillar of strength in ancient times Zhuo Yu weak water, Mo (twilight) Sufeng (Dan), see the world great peace." Cited in the book Yellow Emperor The minister Tianlao said: "Phoenix image is also, after the hong front Lin, snake neck fish tail, zygotic catfish thought (cheek), dragon wen tiger back, swallow chin chicken beak, five colors ready." For the collection of animals into the beauty of phoenix, relevant scholars believe that phoenix is a bird totem worship of ancient ancestors. From the point of view of the image of the phoenix, it is a combination of the characteristics of the natural objects worshiped by different clans in ancient times, resulting in the emergence of the beautiful totem "Phoenix". [3] "White Tiger Tong · Five Elements" records: "Its emperor Yan Emperor, the sun also. Its god A surname The blessing, is continued. The essence is a bird, the departure is a bird, and there are three things."
"Book of Han" records: when Emperor Xuan of Han Dynasty, "Phoenix Emperor God counts", the bird body is "five or six feet high". And according to "Jingfang Yi Zhuan" : "Phoenix emperor high Zhanger."
" Blue bead Volume 10:" phoenix Like five, five colors and red phoenix; Huang Xuelu; A surname; purple 鸑 zhuo , the white one swan " [1]
Imperial historian Token CAI Heng said: All images phoenix There are five colors, more red phoenix, more green luan, more yellow western chick, more purple 鸑 Zhuo, more white swan . [5]
As for the blue dragon and the white tiger, Vermilion bird , Black Tortoise The four images, also known as The four spirits of heaven . Except for the white tiger, no one has ever seen the other three. Since ancient times, A surname The beautiful and auspicious image has remained deeply in the minds of the Chinese people, and has been praised and praised by people for generations.
The evolution of Phoenix characters

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Phoenix is a bird in people's minds, a symbol of peace in the world. The ancients believed that when times were peaceful and prosperous, there would be phoenix flying. "Feng" Qi Inscriptions on tortoise shells and bones It is the same as the oracle for "wind", which means the omnipresence and spiritual power of the wind; Huang is the emperor word, for the highest to the greatest meaning. The phoenix is also a symbol of imperial power in China and is often used with the dragon, to which the phoenix belongs queen concubine Dragon and phoenix auspicious is the most Chinese characteristics of the totem. Chinese folk art There are plenty of similar looks.
Phoenix also represents Yin, although the phoenix is also divided into male and female, it is more generally regarded as female. "Feng" and "Huang" are common names for women. The Song Dynasty often used the dragon and phoenix flag, and also used the dragon and phoenix as auspicious symbols, used on objects, such as Dragon and Phoenix group tea . The phoenix is considered to be the most noble of the hundred birds, the king of the hundred birds, there is a saying that "birds worship the phoenix".
A young phoenix; Yu Yingjun youth). Dragon liver and phoenix marrow (a rare and precious food). Dragon foal and chicken chick (a metaphor for a handsome and talented teenager). Tung flower Wanli Dan Mountain Road, young phoenix in the old phoenix sound. (From the Tang Dynasty poet Li Shangyin "Han Donglang both for poetry sent because into two absolute")
The phoenix is not Western The immortal bird Phoenix does not have the ability to rise from the ashes, and the idea of phoenix nirvana first appeared in Guo Moruo's poem.

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Since ancient times, phoenix has been regarded as the bird of Chinese spirit, and phoenix decorative patterns have also appeared in large numbers Architectural sketch And all kinds of engraving, printing and dyeing patterns... The phoenix is also a primitive ancestor Sun worship and Bird totem Fusion and deification. ( Cao Lindi Evaluation of ) [6]