During the Reign of The Ming Dynasty, Emperor Xiaozong suddenly asked the eunuch to take a small note one day and go to Li Dongyang, a scholar of Wenyuange University, and ask what was going on with Longsheng's ninth son. Li Dongyang was blindfolded at that time, which is basically equivalent to the manager being summoned by the boss and suddenly asked what the Infinity Stones of the Marvel World are all about.
At that time, there was no Google Baidu or anything, Li Dongyang only remembered that when he was a child, he seemed to have read this statement in miscellaneous books, but he couldn't think of the specific content after racking his brains, so he had to go to the Hanlin Academy to edit Shu Luoxuan (read it). Luo Xuan remembered that the teacher seemed to have taught, but he couldn't remember all of them, and could only recall five or six. He also found liu ji, a member of the official's foreign lang, liu ji was very powerful, and copied a statement from an ancient book, but he could not say the source. Li Dongyang couldn't take much care of it anymore, and handed over the results to resume the matter. He was worried that he had forgotten it for a long time, so he wrote down this matter in his collection of essays, "Huailutang Collection", which is also the earliest documentary record of the nine sons of Longsheng that can be found at present. His account of the Nine Sons of the Dragon is:
Dragons are born nine sons and do not become dragons, each has its own good. The imprisoned cow, who has a good life of music, is now carved on the head of the huqin is his relic. Jing Wei, easy to kill in ordinary life, the dragon swallowing mouth on the handle of the sword is his relic. Mocking the wind, life is dangerous, and the beast in the corner of the temple is his relic. Pu Prison, a good life, the beast button on this bell is his relic. Foxy, easy to sit in, now the Buddha's seat lion is its relic. Hegemony, the weight of life is good, and the current stele beast is its relic. The lion on the prison gate is his relic. Gantu, a good writer in his life, is a relic of Wenlong on both sides of the stele. The kiss of the clam, the life is good to swallow, and the beast of the present temple is its relic
Later, the great talent Yang Shen also recorded this incident in his "Sheng'an Collection", and also praised the teacher Li Dongyang, saying that he "accepted the beauty of the question and did not hide the beauty of the subordinates, and the grand festival of the virtuous phase was also." But Yang Shen said that the version that Li Dongyang told him was:
A tortoise, shaped like a turtle good weight, the turtle under the stone stele is also. The second is the kiss, which resembles the good hope of the beast, and the head of the beast on the house is also. Three Pu Prison, shaped like a dragon and small and good roaring, is now Chung Shang Niu. The four foxes, shaped like tigers with power, stood at the prison gate. Five days of food, good food, so standing on the top of the lid. Six days {worm eight} {worm summer}, good sex water, so standing on the bridge pillar. Seven eyes, good to kill, so standing in the knife ring. The eight golden foxes, shaped like lions and good fireworks, stand on the incense burner. Nine pepper diagram, shaped like a snail mussel, good sex closed, so standing at the head of the door shop. There is also Kingo, who looks like a beauty, with two wings like a fish on the head and tail, and its sex is psychic and sleepless, so it uses police patrols.
You said that Yang Shen wanted to give the teacher a thumbs up, and it would be over if he forwarded it? I had to send a new one myself, and the result was not the same as the original post.
In fact, before these two, another Ming Dynasty man, Lu Rong, also had a relevant record in the "Miscellaneous Records of Shuyuan", who said that he had stumbled upon a book called "Miscellaneous Records" in a villager's house, which listed some ancient artifacts with different names, which were said to be from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and the "Natural history". He examined the two books and did not have any relevant records, but he still wrote them down, a total of fourteen, and did not associate with the dragons, including:
Gantu, its shape is like a turtle, good sex, so use a stone stele. The snout, which resembles a beast and has good sexual hopes, stands on the corner of the house. It is small in the shape of a dragon, roaring, and has divine power, so it hangs on the bell. The charter, which resembles a beast, is mighty, and is a good prisoner, so it stands on the prison door. Gluttony, good sex water, so set up a bridgehead. Crickets, shaped like beasts, ghost heads, are good and fishy, so they are used on the handle of a knife. {Worm Bend} {Worm Quan}, which resembles a dragon and has good wind and rain, is used on the ridge of the temple. The tiger, which resembles a dragon and has a good temperament, stands on the inscription. Jin Yi, whose shape resembles a lion and has good temperament, stands on the lid of an incense burner. Pepper figure, which resembles a snail, has a good mouth, so it stands on the door, and now it is called Drum Ding Feiye. The dragon-like and small, and the nature is dangerous, so it stands on the protection of decay. The fish, shaped like a dragon and good at swallowing fire, stands on the roof ridge. {Worm don't} beast, its shape is like a lion, good at eating yin and evil, so it stands on the door knocker. Kingo, whose shape resembles a beauty, has two wings on its head and tail, and its sex is psychic and does not sleep, so it uses patrol police.
Therefore, later there were three theories about the nine sons of Longsheng, the first was Li Dongyang's statement, but the hegemony was changed to hegemonic; the second was Yang Shen's statement, but sometimes {worm eight} {worm xia} was written as worm {worm xia}, plus Jingo, a total of ten. Both of these are big Vs, so the impact is relatively large. The third theory comes from Ming Zhaochun's "Five Miscellaneous Tricks", which he says that in addition to the first statement (in a different order), there is another theory, which basically picks ten of Lu Rong's fourteen:
The charter is a good prisoner, the food is good water, the crickets are fishy, {the insects are barbaric} {the insects are all} good wind and rain, the mantis tiger is good literary, the gold is good smoke, the pepper map is good to shut up, the grasshopper is good to stand dangerous, the fish is good, and the king does not sleep.
Xie Zhaochun also tried to explain the reasons why Long gave birth to nine sons, for different reasons. He believes that dragons are the most sexually promiscuous, and cattle hybridize to give birth to unicorns, and pig hybrids, give birth to elephants, and crossbreed with horses, give birth to dragon horses, and even women have dragon XX. There are also people in the south who use young girls as bait to beg for rain. Dragon, although you know that you are trying to contribute to the biodiversity of the earth, but check it out.
Well, those words are a headache, right? It doesn't matter, let's take a closer look at one by one, it will be good. Let's look at Li Dongyang's statement first.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > a captive cow</h1>
I don't know what it looks like, I like music, and it is generally engraved on the head of the huqin. The origin of this thing is unknown, and I don't know who made it up.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > 睚眦 (pronounce teeth).</h1>
I don't know what it looks like, like to kill, and are generally decorated on the handle of the knife. The original meaning of this word is to stare at the eyes, look at the glyph also know that it is related to the eyes, there is an idiom called Jing Wei Must Repay, describing being stared at by people also to retaliate, be careful of the eyes. Maybe it feels better to provoke things, and it is arranged into a beast's head on the mouth of the knife.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > mockery</h1>
I don't know what it looks like, like to find excitement, and are generally placed on the roof. In ancient China, there was a habit of decorating the roof with ridged beasts (this one will be specifically talked about later by Shi Jun), but the irony is that there is no mocking wind among the ridge beasts. Could it be that it is associated with drinking wind on the roof?
None of these are called mockery
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Pu Prison</h1>
There are dragons written as apprentices, looking like small men, who like to call, and are generally decorated on bell buttons. There is a legend in the Tang Dynasty that there is a monster on the island called Pu Prison, which is particularly afraid of whales. As soon as the whale touches it, it will bark hard, and the sound is particularly loud. In order to make the bell louder, the ancients decorated the image of Pu Lang on the bell.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fox (pronounced acid mud</h1>).
He looks like a lion and likes to sit, usually decorated under the Seat of the Buddha. In fact, fox is the name of the monster that appeared in the pre-Qin period. During the Han Dynasty, due to the contact with the Western Regions, he learned about the image of the lion, and later attached the fox to the lion. In Buddhism, the lion is also considered to be the symbol of the Buddha, so the place where the Buddha sat is called Leo, also known as the seat of The Ophiuchus.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > dominant</h1>
Li Dongyang is recorded as Bashang, which is a place name, which is near the current Bailuyuan. Later, when others quoted it again, it was written as a hegemonic, probably from the association of {worm eight} {worm xia}. I don't know if the description of the hegemony is misremembered, or whether it is for the sake of counting, saying that it looks like a big turtle and likes to carry weights, so it is used to carry stone tablets, but is this not a gantu? Well, we'll talk about it later.
This cargo is actually a gantu
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > 狴犴 (read the case).</h1>
Looks like a tiger and likes to litigate, so it is placed at the door of the prison. 犴 refers to a type of wild dog, and among the twenty-eight houses there is Inoki (equivalent to wild dog?). ）。 It also has a phonetic pronunciation, referring to moose. The word 狴犴 has long had the meaning of prison (some people have analyzed that 狴犴 is a police dog that looks at prison). So it may be from the Charter → prison → the association of the lynx, after all, the lynx is more like a monster than the charter. However, there is no such thing at the prison gate, so it is said that it is the lion's head on the prison gate, which is actually the auxiliary head on the door.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > 赑屃 (read in detail</h1>).
The gantu looks like a large turtle and likes to carry weights, so it is used to carry stone tablets. The word 赑屃 has long appeared, and originally meant a very powerful appearance (赑 is force, 屃 is big). And the big turtle on the stone stele also has another name called turtle (reading husband), and later may think that the turtle is not good, so he found a name that appears to be learned - gantu, but the turtle is not said. In Li Dongyang's system, this function has been given to the hegemony, what to do? Look for it on the stone stele again, eh, there are dragon patterns on both sides of the stele, that's it!
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > a slug kiss (read eat kiss).</h1>
It is also called clam kiss and partridge kiss. Read it to me, I'm stupid, well, it's a joke. This cargo looks like a monster, likes to swallow, or likes to look far away, so it has become a ridge beast of the palace. At least since the Jin Dynasty, there has been the name of the partridge (or iris tail), which refers to the ornaments on both sides of the roof ridge of the palace building, which gradually evolved into an image like a dragon head. According to Legend in the Tang Dynasty, its origin is that when the Bailiang Hall of the Han Dynasty was burned down and rebuilt, a southern shaman said that there was a kind of fish dragon in the sea, and its tail was like a bird called an owl, which could stir up waves to form rainfall. Decorating its image on the roof can play a role in avoiding fires.
But there was still a mocking wind squatting on the roof, and two of the nine sons of the dragon were drinking the wind on the roof, and two were on the stone tablets. It can be seen that Li Dongyang is not very reliable in making up this, but it can be seen that they have tried their best, and it is not easy.
Looking at Yang Shen's statement, Gantu, Fang kiss, Pu Prison, Fox, Jing Xuan have all been said, and others include:
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > gluttonous</h1>
Like to eat, so put on the lid. This is very famous, it is said that the son of the Jinyun clan coveted food and liked goods, called Gluttony, was one of the four murderers, and was exiled by Emperor Shun. Gluttony may be a monster in ancient legends, especially gluttonous, so it gave the son of Jinyun such a nickname, and gluttony has become synonymous with super foodie. Guo Pu believes that a monster called the Roe Deer Owl (pronounced robe elimination) described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is the Gluttony. This monster lives in mount Hook Wu, its body is like a sheep, its face is like a human, its eyes are under its armpits, it has the teeth of a tiger and human nails, and it cries like a baby crying. "Lü's Spring and Autumn" believes that gluttony is a monster with only a head and no body, it likes to eat people and cannot swallow, and will eventually kill itself. Therefore, the animal face pattern on bronze is generally called a gluttonous pattern, which is actually not necessarily appropriate. In short, this fierce character has also been pulled into the Dragon Sheng Nine Subsystem. By the way, there is also a saying that the food likes water, was placed at the head of the bridge, eat more and then drink a little?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > {bug eight}{bug summer}</h1>
There are also written as worms {worm summer}, pronounced probably blind? Neither of these words can be found in the dictionary, and it is said that it is an animal that likes water, so it is decorated on the bridge pillar. I don't have much to say about this, from gluttony?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Jinyi</h1>
Looks like a lion and likes fireworks, so it is decorated on the incense burner, which is actually a fox. In the Tang Dynasty, there were incense burners decorated with lions, and in the Song Dynasty, copper lion incense burners appeared, and the incense burner also had the nickname of Jinyi, and there were also incense burners called golden beasts.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > pepper chart</h1>
Looks like a snail and likes to close, so decorate the door auxiliary head. The auxiliary head is also the door knocker, with the animal face pattern as a decoration has long been there, how can this thing be called a pepper map? After careful examination by Liu Shijun, this is how it came about. In the Han Dynasty, it was liked to use peppercorns and mud to paint on the walls of the harem's palace, which may be the meaning of taking the peppercorns with aroma, moth prevention and multi-seed, so the palace where the concubines lived was called the pepper room or pepper coating. Pepper tu gradually evolved into pepper chart, and the appendix became a symbol of the grandeur of a large family and a very grand family. In the Yuan Song, there are often sayings such as "double paintings in the door row, eight pepper diagrams in the household column", "the door meets the carriage, and the household columns have eight pepper diagrams". In the Ming Dynasty, people did not know what the eight pepper diagrams were, looking at the text, thinking that it was the decoration on the door, they thought that the pepper diagram referred to the door nail, also known as the drum nail, so it was said that the pepper diagram looked like a snail. Yang Shen also linked the pepper map with the snail mussel from the record of "closing the house" in the "Corpse" (this sentence is actually from the "Class Chapter"). The difference between the snail and the snail is quite large, it is not like a door nail, there is an auxiliary head on the door, and the snail is a bit similar, just him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Kingo</h1>
A mermaid that looks like a winged mermaid, and so on, with a fish head and tail, doesn't like to sleep, so let it be a guard. Kingo originally meant Janissaries, and there are two sources of speculation, one is from Jinwu, which is the sun, and uses this name to ward off evil spirits. The second is to say that I am the meaning of the imperial family, and the golden wu is to use metal to resist. How did this mermaid image come about? I don't know.
Others include:
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the tiger</h1>
Looks like a dragon and likes literary color, so it is decorated on the edge of the inscription. It is generally believed that the ant is a hornless little dragon, and the ant tiger is a four-legged small dragon that resembles a gecko, and many utensils have the decoration of the tiger.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > anchovies</h1>
Dragon head fish tail, because it is closer to the image of the snout, there are also pipe snouts called aoyu, in short, it is also a brother who drinks the wind on the roof.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > 虭蛥 (pronounced eagle snake).</h1>
Looks like a small dragon and likes to stand in dangerous places, so decorate it at the top of the pillar. Ants originally meant cicadas.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > crickets</h1>
It should be a lizard, and here he says that he likes the fishy smell, so it is decorated on the handle of the knife, which is equivalent to a blind eye.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > {worm bend}{worm full}</h1>
There are also written as {worm brute} {worm full}, looks like a dragon, likes wind and rain, so put on the roof. Another brother was added to the roof. Like that {Worm Eight} {Worm Summer}, the source is not known.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > beast {worm don't}</h1>
Looks like a lion and likes to eat evil things, so it is made on the door knocker. Now the seat has been topped by the pepper map, and there is no more of it in the nine children.
By the way, now there is a new saying, it may be that in the process of book printing or network circulation, some strange words have been copied incorrectly, so Gantu has another name for negative tutu, {worm eight} {worm xia} has become a viper. These have also become members of the nine sons of the online dragon, I don't believe you can search and see, Liu Shijun is also speechless. Or that's it, Dragon, if you check a little, you don't have to cause so much trouble.
In ancient times, we liked to decorate with the image of dragons, monsters, etc., in various forms, and it was impossible to cover these with a system of dragons and nine sons. It can be seen that the so-called nine sons of Longsheng have no unified statement at all, and after being pieced together by Li Dongyang and others in order to make a difference, they were brainlessly forwarded by some people, or arbitrarily took private goods according to their own ideas, and finally there was such a result. So don't think of it as our traditional culture anymore, spread and promote it, remember that this thing is really useless. Understanding this, Liu Shijun was not busy in vain.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > ending easter egg:</h1>
According to the "History ▪ of Gao Zu Benji", Liu Bang's father was Liu Taigong and his mother was Liu Mi (媪媪). Liu Mi once rested on the slope next to the swamp, and felt that she had met a god in her sleep. Just when Taigong went to look for Liu Mi, he saw that in the lightning and thunder, a dragon was lying on Liu Mi's body, (a few words are omitted here). Liu Mi thus became pregnant and gave birth to Liu Bang. Liu Bang was born with a vision, a dragon face, and 72 black scabs on his left buttocks.
This story is much earlier than the legend of the nine sons of the dragon, so Liu Bang should be the big brother of the nine sons.