The Roc described in "Zhuangzi" is actually a phoenix.
If you often write the calligraphers of the seal, or engage in the study of ancient characters, you will know that the phoenix character of the phoenix and the friend character of the friend are the same character in the ancient seal body.
Gu Wenfeng
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"Ancient Phoenix, Pictogram." Feng Fei, the bird from tens of thousands, so think of the word for the party." "Sayings"
The meaning of this passage is obvious, saying that when the phoenix flies, the flock of birds follows, and the living friends gather, so the word peng is used instead of the phoenix.
The phoenix character, in ancient style, is the phoenix (friend) character plus a bird character.
Gu Wen Phoenix
"Gu Wenfeng." It's like its shape. Add the bird side. Friends of the Early Ancient Texts. The one who heels for the sake of it also. Book of Zhuangzi. Turn into a bird. Its name is Peng"
In other words, the word Phoenix is actually the word Peng. Zhuangzi's age, using ancient Chinese, I really don't know whether he originally wrote Feng or Peng, perhaps later generations have alienated this homographic character into two words.
The wrong image of Peng in calligraphy and painting works
Since Dapeng is a phoenix, those who paint Dapeng as an eagle in the works of Dapeng spreading its wings and Pengcheng Wanli calligraphy and painting all gave me squatting in the corner of the wall to face the wall and think about it.
Since we talk about Peng, it also explains that Peng is actually a phoenix. Let's talk about the roc bird translated in the Buddhist scriptures.
After buddhism was introduced to China, the mythical image of the golden-winged bird gradually appeared under the influence of Zhuangzi. According to the legend in the Buddhist scriptures, the divine bird is transliterated as Garoula.
In Hindu mythology, Galula is 8,000 yuxun and 4,000 wings long, feeding on dragons (the dragon in the Buddhist scriptures is actually an Indian cobra, transliterated as Naga), and can travel through the universe at will, as vishnu mounts.
According to this description, the so-called Indian Roc is nothing more than an eagle.
Traitor translators always use Chinese names to decorate Hujiao, and in this way, the phoenix dapeng of the king of birds in Zhuangzi was actually transformed into an eagle by India.
The eagle is a bird commonly worshipped by nomadic peoples and Yidi, which is very different from Chinese culture.
postscript:
What exactly is a phoenix?
What is the legend about "Phoenix Nirvana"?
"Phoenix, Bird of Fire, Essence of Yang"
Phoenix, also written Phoenix Emperor.
"There are birds that look like chickens, five harvests and texts, and the name is fenghuang" "Classic of Mountains and Seas"
According to the description of ancient Chinese books, it belongs to the ancient gods and birds and is worshipped by Chinese. If the phoenix appears, it is regarded as the world's prosperity, auspicious. The phoenix appeared, and there was a special word called "phoenix laiyi".
"Yao envoys canon music, hitting stones and stones, dancing with hundreds of beasts, Jiucheng Shao, Fenghuang Laiyi" "Liezi Yellow Emperor"
"Jing XingJian, Huang Longxia, FengHuang Zhi, Li Quan Chu, Jia Gu Sheng, River Dissatisfaction Overflow, Hai Bu Bo Gush" "Wenzi Jingcheng"
If the phoenix does not appear, it is considered not peaceful. "The phoenix does not fly, the unicorn does not swim, the tree is built for the platform, the forest is burned, and the fish is exhausted"
Phoenix, is a collective name for male and female. The male bird of the phoenix is called the phoenix, and the female bird is called the phoenix. (Now those who name girls so-and-so Phoenix, in fact, mistaken gender)
"Male phoenix, female emperor." The male chirps immediately, and the female sings enough." "Etiquette Rui Feng Chapter"
What kind of sacred bird is the phoenix?
"Phoenix, divine bird also." Heavenly Elder: "The Elephant of the Phoenix, the Queen of the Hongqian, the Tail of the Snake-necked Fish, the Stork-jawed Mandarin Thought, the Dragon Wenhu Back, the Swallow-jawed Chicken Beak, and the Five-ColorEd Preparation." Out of the country of the gentlemen of the East, Flying across the seas, passing through Kun Kun, drinking pillars, Mao Yu weak water, Mo Su Wind Cave. See the world is great. "From the birds to the sound." "Sayings"
Tianlao was a subject of the Yellow Emperor. In explaining the phoenix, the Shuowen quotes the Heavenly Old Sayings, and according to its description, this sacred bird is very large.
In ancient times, no matter how people describe the phoenix, there has never been a legend of the phoenix being reborn in the fire.
Until Guo Moruo
When he translated some Western myths, he found that there was a myth and legend in the Kingdom of Heaven (present-day Arabian Peninsula), there was a pair of sacred birds, also known as male and female, after turning five hundred years old, jixiangmu self-immolated, resurrected from the ashes of death, and from then on it was delicious and abnormal, and no longer died.
This thing is called a turkey, or an undead bird at best, which translates to "Finiss.". It can be said that it has nothing to do with our Chinese phoenix.
But Guo Moruo called it a phoenix, and called it "phoenix nirvana, reborn from the fire."
In this matter, Qian Zhongshu was very disgusted and criticized Guo Moruo.
Qian Zhongshu telegraphed with Huang Yongyu: "What is the basis for this?" It is the title of a poem that Guo Moruo made up himself in 1921. Inventions outside the three teachings and nine streams, where do you find them? The story of the phoenix jumping into the fire and regenerating is there, there have been relief patterns on ancient Roman coins, nor is it a Roman invention, it may be a story passed down from Greece, maybe it has something to do with Egypt and China... So be it! You go through the Encyclopedia Britannica... yes! No! You go through Chinese concise Encyclopedia Britannica, which you can find in the third book."
When Guo Moruo translated foreign cultures, he even confused the Chinese name, and after he invented the words phoenix nirvana and rebirth from the fire, he profoundly misled the Chinese people.
Even the general chinese believe that phoenix nirvana and rebirth from the fire may be ancient legends. As everyone knows, this "ancient legend" has been in China for less than a hundred years.
The domestic animation "Qin Shi Mingyue" is known as the bone of history, and there is also a story of playing the piano with jade playing the piano to tell the rebirth of the phoenix in the fire.
It seems that many people have been misled into thinking that China's phoenix will be reborn.
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