Ancient Chinese culture is all-encompassing, covering everything that can be concluded, and then through generations of efforts, these things are summarized into easy-to-understand knowledge, and then spread to the areas that can be covered by the world, such as the five squares and five figures, the four elephants and gossip, and so on.
One of the most unique is the four elephants, these four and the design of astronomical stars, including the worship of gods, as well as the worship of human orientation and totem. The so-called four elephants are the four animals of the green dragon Xuanwu White Tiger Suzaku, and among these four, the pattern of the dragon is the highest, because it is the totem symbol of the Chinese nation.
We also think of ourselves as descendants of dragons, while the others don't seem to have much of a presence. But, in fact, people often prefer the white tiger to the green dragon, what is the reason?
Among the four elephants, the left green dragon and the right white tiger, it seems that the dragon and tiger often accompany the left and right, from the national totem, it should be more like the green dragon! In fact, this has to start from the ancient system, as we all know, even if everyone is a descendant of the dragon, but the ancient emperor also called himself the true dragon Tianzi.
That is to say, the emperor's self-proclaimed true dragon Tianzi, dragon flag, and dragon patterns are monopolized by the emperor, including this left green dragon, which also belongs to the exclusive royal family, ordinary people can not touch it at all, saying that if they like dragons, it is basically a major crime of raiding the family and exterminating the clan. Even if you meet the civilized emperor and do not pursue it, and avoid the crime of extermination, you cannot run away from the prison.
Under such a background, among the choices of ordinary people, the white tiger can only be taken as the first choice, because his status is second only to that of the dragon, and the tiger is also the king of the hundred beasts, powerful and tall, and can both ward off evil spirits and town houses. In addition, the white tiger has another meaning.
Among the astrological signs, the white tiger lives in the west, which is the appearance of the seven images of the Western seven stars Kui Timber Wolf, Lou Jin Dog, Stomach Earth Pheasant, Pleiades Chicken, Bi Yue wu, Fire Monkey, and Ginseng Water Ape, shaped like a tiger, astronomically called the White Tiger, and among the five elements, the West is golden.
This shows that people like the gold in the West, and the appearance of the Western Heavenly Palace is the white tiger, people in order to pursue a good meaning, change to the West Palace White Tiger into a new layer of meaning, the white tiger can bring financial resources, after all, the West Heaven is more gold, and the White Tiger is, the Town House Tiger of the West Heaven.
Looking at the human world, since the White Tiger guards the West and the West is more golden, if the White Tiger guards its own home at home, wouldn't it have a lot of financial resources? Therefore, in addition to the town house to ward off evil spirits, the white tiger has another layer of beautiful meaning, which can absorb gold and attract wealth.
However, the white tiger here is not a real tiger, but a celestial phenomenon, and at first, it was not the same thing as running a white tiger on the ground, but over time, the tiger on earth, the stars in the sky, the worship of gods, and the worship of totems were all mixed together, and their meaning was also generalized.
The white tigers in the human world are also given the meaning of attracting wealth and blessings, and are regarded as the representatives of the white tiger stars in the heavenly palace, they return to the heavens is the white tiger star, and when they come to the human world, they are the white tigers, and therefore, a long time ago, the white tigers were regarded as benevolent beasts by the people, and they were different from other tigers.
"River Diagram Covers the Earth Image": "The Holy King is inspired by the period, and there is the morning sound of the white tiger, and the thunder is in the four fields." ”
"Aiding god contract": "The king is virtuous to the bird and the beast, and the white tiger moves." ”
"Zhongxing Zhengxiang said": "The king is benevolent but not harmful, then the white tiger sees." White Tiger, Benevolent Beast also. The tiger is white, its body is like snow, there is no stray hair, and the whistle is prosperous. In the past, the public was called to the country of Shaanxi, and the white tiger should be yan.
These records all say that the tiger is the emperor's benevolence, and the appearance of the white tiger is regarded as a sign of auspiciousness, a symbol of the prosperity of the country and the benevolence of the emperor, but the emperor does not monopolize the ownership of the white tiger, and ordinary people can freely interpret the white tiger.
The white tiger can bring fortune to the family, so the people and ordinary people like the white tiger. Among the twelve zodiac signs, the tiger is in the yin position, the third, and even above the dragon.