The "Southern Classic of Hai Nei" of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": 兕 in the east of Shunfu, the south of Xiangshui, its shape is like an ox, black, a horn.
This is about this beast, which is mostly found on the south bank of the Xiangshui River. And what does it look like? Cyan, with a horn on his head, heavy, like a bison.
Speaking of the big green bull, it can't help but remind people of the "one-horned king" in "Journey to the West", the mount of the original Taishang Laojun, taking advantage of the guards' lack of attention, stole the King of the King of the Mountains, kidnapped the Tang monks, and fought with Sun Wukong for dozens of rounds, and also used the King Kong to take away the weapons of everyone. In the end, it was Taishang Laojun who came to subdue him.
In addition to being like a green cow, there is also a saying that the golem is more like a rhinoceros, but no matter which one, the goo was a beast in ancient times. Bronzes also often appear on images of the dagger to symbolize noble virtue.
In the "Dream of the Red Chamber" Yuan Chun sentence also mentions the "tiger and the big dream", which means the fight between two kinds of beasts, which refers to the death of Yuan Chun and the end of the big family from rise to fall.
兕 has always been a common intention in Chinese culture, generally referring to a large beast like an ox, often using "tigers" (and the Ming Gong supports it as a minion, for example, juju drives the tiger to go to the dog and sheep - "Zizhi Tongjian"), "wolf" (the vine is not long, the wolf is not long!). - "Book of Jin"), "Tiger and Leopard Rhinoceros" (its beast duohu leopard rhinoceros - "Classic of Mountains and Seas") and other words, juxtaposed with tigers and wolves, it can be seen that its ferocity, but also commonly used.
The most well-known is Confucius's sentence " The tiger is out of the wood , and the turtle and jade are destroyed in the tree, whose fault is it?" It is said that he relied on this stem to trace the hair, and a few days ago my mother was looking at the Yanxi Palace, and the heroine also said this allusion:
According to historical records, one day in the forty years of Qianlong, He Yan drove out of the palace with his car. "Shang even read the side newspaper in the public opinion, and there was a key criminal who escaped, and shang was slightly angry, and recited the analects of the Analects, 'Hu Yan (sì) out of the word'", the lieutenant did not know what this meant, but He Yan immediately replied: "The master who is the keeper of the codex must not resign his responsibility. Qianlong was very happy after hearing this, and asked Hezhen, "Have you read the Analects?" "He yan said, read it." And ask the family lineage, the age, and the right thing to do is called the purpose." Qianlong "saw that his manners were elegant and his voice was clear", "his correction was abnormal", and he was very appreciative, "self-grace and etiquette".
Beginning with the Book of Verses, it is also common to use a wine glass made of horns (or a wine glass made in the shape of a horn). It can be described as:
"Shōbi Takaoka, I'm Ma Xuanhuang." My aunt is jealous of the other side, and I will not be hurt forever. "Curly Ears"
And the famous "July" ending sentence: "September frost, October clean field." Drinking wine, killing lambs. He called him a man of great lengths, and his life is boundless."
Until the Tang Dynasty, the New Book of Tang wrote about the Tugong of Yangzhou, which had "Water Armor": Yangzhou Guangling County, the Governor's Mansion... Tianbao changed the name of the county in the first year. Tugong: gold, silver, bronze, bronze mirror, cotton, brocade... Water armor... Sugar crab, honey ginger, lotus root, iron essence, empty green, white mango, rabbit silk, snake millet, including ginger powder. (New Book of Tang, Zhi, vol. 31).
In the Tang Dynasty, the water armor was still a kind of Yangzhou tribute, and gold and silver, bronze, bronze mirror, lotus and so on paid tribute. It is said that it is used with tigers and wolves, often as wine glasses, and as tributes with gold and silver cotton lotus, which should be a practical thing.
Under the mount of Taishang Laojun, the name of the demon, the nickname of the king, why should a cow be called this name? Because he is not an ordinary farming cow, but a rhinoceros. The Jin Dynasty scholar Guo Pu said in the "Notes on the Classics of Mountains and Seas" that it resembles a buffalo, with a blue horn and a weight of up to three thousand pounds. According to the records in the historical records, until the Western Han Dynasty, there was still this animal in the Central Plains, also known as the one-horned black rhinoceros.
Verses such as "The tiger is destroyed in the tree" is a true portrayal of real-world animals.
Only later, the environment of the Central Plains was no longer suitable for its survival, and now it has become an endangered animal, no more than a hundred in the world.
Qu Yuan's "Nine Songs" once described a war in which the soldiers of the Baiyue Kingdom used the skin of the one-horned rhinoceros, that is, the skin of the golem, as armor.
It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Book of Hai Nei that there are beasts and beasts, whose shape is like an ox, and the horns of the sky are black. Cang is cyan, no wonder people think that Lao Tzu's mount is a green bull, in fact, it is a blue-black rhinoceros, and later this animal did not exist, and people made it a green cow in reality.
In the serious academic book "Explanation of Words", there is also the figure of Wu, which says: "It is like a bison and blue." There is also evidence in the Book of Poetry that "bandits and tigers lead the wilderness", which proves that the tiger was once a relatively common animal in ancient China.
If we compare the appearance of the king again, we can find more evidence. Fifty times in journey to the West, he is said to have "a single horn with jagged eyes and a thick ear root on the top." The fur is like an indigo, like a rhinoceros that does not shine on the water, saying that the cattle do not cultivate the field."
Obviously, if it were an ordinary green cow, it would not be a single horn, and its fur would not be so hard; the cultivated cattle would not have such coat colors as cyan and indigo.