As one of the annual events that fantasy players are looking forward to, the Fantasy Journey to the West Carnival recently released a "cute" material: the true face of the latest sacred beast Lushan of the carnival was unveiled: super bear. As the first two-in-one divine beast of the dream journey to the west, don't look at his design as a cute look, after a small editor read a lot of information, found that the design ideas behind the bear can be very promising.
According to the official version, there are bears are spirit beasts from the land of bears, and they are the favorite pets of the Yellow Emperor of Xuanyuan and are brave and good at war. After death, because it is too "cute", it becomes a tribal totem and is worshipped by the world. Gather thousands of thoughts from the dead and come back to life, and hear the carnival celebrations...
But in fact, there are bear allusions far more than that. Many scholars believe that the bear and the dragon are one. A large number of religious ritual vessels called Jade Beast Jue have been unearthed in China. Its image is considered to be the earliest prototype of the dragon. Many people think that the image of its head comes from a bear
In addition, many tribes worshiped bears in the early days rather than fictional dragons, and many scholars believe that the image of the dragon originated from the bear, and the bear and the dragon were one. And the word "bear" is officially the name of the Yellow Emperor. By the way, Fuxi's name is a yellow bear, I don't know if there will be another yellow bear after the dream?
As for the title of "two-in-one", the official has only said one sentence at present: "See the bird on your head?" "But I don't think it's going to be that simple. However, the specific data has not been released, and xiaobian does not dare to guess here. However, why is there a bird on the head and not something else, the editor can say.
There is a kind of jade produced in Yin Shang, called Yufei Bear, and there is also a bird body vessel called Yin Shang Jade Bear Head. As the name suggests, its image is the body of a bear-headed bird. Derived from: "Flying Bear Like a Dream", from Sima Qian's "History of the Qi Taigong Family": "Xi Bo will go out hunting, Bu Zhi, that is, 'what is obtained is not a dragon and not a dragon, not a tiger, not a tiger; the auxiliary of the overlord." ”
Jiang Ziya was a disciple of Yuan Shi Tianzun and a Daoist with the Dao number Flying Bear. Legend has it that before King Wen of Zhou met Jiang Ziya, he saw a flying bear flying from the sky in a dream, and later used the term "flying bear like a dream" as a metaphor for the sign that the Holy Lord had won the sage.
Therefore, Xiaobian boldly speculates here: the prototype of this two-in-one divine beast is most likely a flying bear in mythology! Beneath the cute image, hidden is the designer's blessing to everyone, but it is not explicitly stated for reasons of length.
It can be said that the design of the Dream Journey to the West is still so elaborate, there is a precedent, I don't know if the ancient divine beasts will be out of the past in the future? According to this logic, in the future, will yinglong, divine cow, Bi Fang and other multi-form divine beasts not far away?