Deer Crane: Meeting beautiful people is a beautiful thing
In traditional Chinese culture, the sika deer is the only beast that can approach the Ganoderma lucidum immortal herb. "Deer Crane Zhizhi" tells the story of the sika deer who found Ganoderma lucidum in the company of the crane. Ganoderma lucidum herb has the effect of repelling plague, health, longevity and eternal youth. "Danqing wins the bird Yucui, and the deer in the purple wall pile is called smoke" describes the beautiful process of the sika deer looking for fairy grass.
Animals are an important part of the human environment, but many animals have a much longer history than humans, and the history of deer is 35 million years. China is the hometown of plum blossoms, including reindeer, elk, red deer, white-lipped deer, etc., from the cold Daxing'an Mountains in the north, to the lush water and grass of the Yellow River, the banks of the Yangtze River, to sanya, Hainan, where the flowers of the four seasons have traces of deer, there are many legends and cultures of sika deer. According to research, in ancient Times, China was the hometown of the sika deer; the Central Plains was the hometown of the sika deer. My understanding of deer has long originated from reading Cao Cao's "Short Song Line" as a teenager: "Yo yo deer singing, eating the apple of the wild." "When I go on an outing, I seem to hear deer chirping, and I also want to meet deer often."
Sika deer belongs to the deer family, the image is beautiful, the eyes are clear, the personality is warm, the body is born with white spots, shaped like plum blossoms, so it is called sika deer. Traditional beautiful li characters, the upper part of a li, the lower part of a deer, li characters from the deer, meaning that the beauty was born in the sika deer, meaning kindness, femininity, auspiciousness, happiness and well-being. The "Chronicle of History" records: Tai Hao began to marry Lippi as a gift. This refers to the dowry of deerskin, which is an extension of the meaning of beauty. In Buddhism, the status of the sika deer is quite high, called "shemo", that is, "beautiful merit", which also means "the cessation of distracting thoughts". Mexico's most prominent and romantic artist, Frida, painted himself a self-portrait of a deer with a human face and a feather of arrows. The "nine-colored deer of the afterlife" refers to the god who can save drowning people.
Deer culture has a long history, and deer worship has a long history. Sika deer "believe and respond", benevolent spirit immortal god. Regarding its origin, the Spring and Autumn Fortune Doushu says that "Yaoguang scattered into deer". "Baopuzi" is called a mythical creature: The deer shou chitose, full of five hundred is white. Folk also have "a thousand years of deer, two thousand years of deer" said. The longevity god rides a deer, and the white deer becomes a fairy. Sika deer often appear in pairs, representing the "harmony, happiness, loyalty and beauty" of love, and also has the meaning of "eternal companionship". Lu Huitou in Sanya, Hainan, a story of love between a Young Li and a Fairy Deer, has become the first choice of classics for young people landing on the island. Deer body treasures, antlers, blood, whips, flesh, bone are all medicinal, deer and fertility worship associated, deer also represent many children and many blessings, play a great role in human reproduction, thriving, driving away the disease and strengthening the body, by the worship of all sentient beings is also the meaning of the title. According to the Kangxi Dictionary, deer bones are used as wine vessels and are also a symbol of politics, and "chasing deer in the Central Plains" represents the competition for Jiangshan Sheji.
Folk deer farming has been around for a long time. The King of Shangxi built lutai to raise deer, the foothills of the Zhongnan Mountains in Xi'an were deer farms in the Tang Dynasty, and the Fragrant Hills in Beijing were once the royal deer gardens of the Qing Dynasty. There is a legend of "Ten Deer and Nine Returns" in Shanghai, and the "Drunken White Pond" in Songjiang has a monument of "Ten Deer and Nine Returns". During the festival, travelers are homesick, and the "Thoughts of the Perch" are picturesque, and the deer also has the meaning of missing. In ancient China, "deer crane and spring" has an auspicious meaning, also known as "six contract spring". Take "deer" to take the sound of "land", take "crane" to take the law of "unity", "liuhe" refers to heaven and earth and east, west, south and north, that is, "heaven and earth four directions", also refers to the world. "Six contract spring" means that the whole world is spring, and all things are prosperous. Folk use of harmonic techniques, "spring" is "chun", its meaning is also taken from the image of flowers, pine trees, tsubaki trees, etc., combined to form the "six contract spring" auspicious. The ancients also called the title on the list "Plum Blossom List".
In the West, the twelve deer drivers led by the red-nosed deer are widely known, and these deer are reindeer, not sika deer. Reindeer both male and female have long horns, and sika deer only have male long horns. But there are many descriptions of deer carts in ancient Chinese poetry. Ouyang Xiu's "Autumn Huai" poem says: "When the deer car is driven, return to Yingdongtian" Lu You's "Self-Chant" has the sentence "Raw grass covers the snail, and the long beard drives the deer car". "Deer car together" also represents the meaning of husband and wife to live in peace and happiness. There are descriptions of deer in many of Li Bai's poems. "Thorny Stone Tiger Hall, Deer Walking Gu Sutai" is a sentence in his "Pair of Wine", and he also wrote in "Visiting Dai Tianshan Daoists Do Not Meet" that "when the tree is deep, the deer is seen, and the creek does not hear the bell at noon". Meng Haoran's "Song of Returning to Lumen at Night" wrote: "People follow the Xijiang Village on the shore of the sand bank, and Yu also returns to Lumen by boat." Here Lumen refers specifically to Lumen Mountain. Huang Tingjian's "Miscellaneous Poems" "After all, several people really have deer, and they don't know how to dream of fish all day long", Mei Yaochen's "Lushan Mountain Trip" "Frost falls on the bear and rises the tree, and the forest is empty of deer drinking creek" writes the scene of encountering deer, that is to say, there are many deer in the Central Plains during the Song Dynasty.
Sika deer are natural and loving, gentle, and their sense of smell and hearing is particularly sensitive. In terms of relationship with people, There is a big difference between Chinese deer and Oriental deer. Chinese sika deer are afraid of people. More than ten years ago, I went to Beijing Xiangshan Deer Farm to collect four sika deer and put them in Zhengzhou Forest Park, which may be due to the regional environment, and the sika deer were frightened, and finally did not know the end. The deer of Nara lived near Mount Wakaka in the second year of Waokatsu, that is, in 710, and the Kasuga Taisha Shrine, the deer park, and the streets and alleys coexisted in harmony with the deer, and they were all happy. They also launched the "deer.park" human deer affinity project to the society. When will we build a deer park in the hometown of the sika deer?
There are also many people in the world who worship deer and love deer, including those around us. I have three beautiful girlfriends who are all deer lovers, one created "Deer City Hostel", one founded "Deer Bookstore", and one founded the "Linglu" brand, and together they opened a beautiful world. "Qingqing Zizhen, leisurely my heart." But for the sake of the king, he has been groaning to this day. Yo yo deer singing, eating wild apples. I have guests, drummers and trumpeters. The epidemic is raging, as if we see the sika deer with the Lingzhi immortal grass singing and coming towards us.
2020-2-1 Written in Greentown Zhengzhou