According to the "Qing Palace Beast Genealogy"
It is an ancient monster that can also be written as "refutation". In the Erya, it is said: "Horses, like horses, saws, tigers and leopards." "This is a beast that resembles a horse and can eat tigers and leopards. According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, "The mountain of Zhongqu has beasts, its shape is like a horse and a white body and black tail, a horn, tiger's teeth and claws, and a sound like a drum, its name is 駮, it is a tiger-eating leopard, and it can be a soldier." "In the surviving "Classic of Mountains and Seas" picture books, most of them are unicorn-style, suspected to be variants of animals such as rhinoceros. The horse in "Erya Yintu" has no horns, two front hooves hold a tiger and is eating, and a tiger next to it flees in panic.
Ming Dynasty engraving of "The Complete Picture of the Classic of Mountains and Seas"
Refutation of the Qing edition of "Erya Yintu"
Sometimes mixed in with mortal horses, for human guidance, the real identity is not known. There is a story in "The Pipe" that says that Qi Huangong went out hunting and encountered a tiger, but the tiger crawled on the ground and did not dare to move, and the horse that Huan Gong rode was not surprised to see the tiger, and still walked leisurely. Qi Huangong was puzzled and asked Guan Zhong. Guan Zhong said: "This elephant also eats tigers and leopards, so the tiger is suspicious." It turned out that Huan Gong was riding a horse, and the tiger was uncertain, so he did not dare to come forward. Coincidentally, in the "Saying Garden", it is recorded that Jin Pinggong went out hunting, the tiger lay on the ground and did not move, Jin Pinggong could not help but be a little proud, turned back to Shi Kuang and said: "The widow heard that the overlord saw the world, and the beast would lie on the ground and dare not get up, is this the legendary beast?" "The implication is that I want to boast that I am the overlord. Shi Kuang, however, spoke bluntly, saying, "The tiger is therefore immovable, and he is not the virtue and righteousness of the lord." Jin Pinggong listened, greatly displeased, and later Jin Pinggong teased Shi Kuang, secretly arranged tribulus terrestris, and pierced Shi Kuang's feet.
In addition to the king's ride, the warriors also ride on the horse. The Classic of Mountains and Seas says that a warrior can withstand a military disaster, and it is said that a warrior riding a horse will be victorious. The Tang Dynasty Duan Chengshi "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks" says: "Qin Shubao's horse trumpet is suddenly thunderous, often drinking wine, and every month he tries it, he can erect three collars of black felt." and Hu Guogong's pawn, who died without eating. "The mount of the famous Tang Dynasty general Qin Qiong was suddenly thunderous, and the popular interpretations such as "Speaking of Tang" were falsely rumored to be Hulei leopards, with a pinch of hair on the top of their heads, as long as they grabbed this pinch of hair with their hands, the Hulei leopard would shout, and when the enemy mount heard the cry, it would fall to the ground and face the sky on all fours. The Kulei Gong, the Hulei Leopard, is also a variant of the Hulei Leopard.
Qin Qiong rides the Hulei Leopard shaanxi Fengxiang Nian painting
In addition to the horses mixed in with the horses, there are also the occasional horses in the mountains, and only naturalists can know its origin. The "History of Song" records that Liu Chang sent an envoy to the Khitan at that time, when there were monsters in the mountains of Shunzhou (corresponding to the area of present-day Fuxin, Liaoning), shaped like horses, but they could eat tigers and leopards, and the Khitan people did not know it, so they came to consult Liu Chang. After Liu Chang listened to the Khitan people's narration, he immediately judged that it was a shrew, and recited the words contained in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Guan Zi" and other books, and the Khitan people listened to it with great admiration, and unanimously believed that Liu Chang was a knowledgeable and knowledgeable person, and he was very respectful.
Refutation of Qing Yongzheng Edition of "Ancient and Modern Book Integration"
The Kangxi edition of the Hangzhou Chronicle also records a sighting. The incident occurred in the summer of the tenth year of Shunzhi (1653), when there was a tiger plague in Hangzhou, and the people were overwhelmed. On this day, before and after The Taipu Mountain, someone saw a giant beast, "horse-shaped, eight feet tall, long and long, covered with purple hyenas", people did not dare to approach, they could only watch from a distance, this monster chased the tiger to the water's edge, ate the tiger, and drank water while eating. Since then, the tiger plague in Hangzhou has disappeared. Where the monster ate the tiger, it saw only the tiger's head, four claws, and a pile of bones. Some people say that this is the horse, it can be seen that the horse does not eat the tiger's head and tiger's foot, which is a new addition to the knowledge of the horse.
From the story of the dragon, it may be possible to see the trajectory of the change of this sacred beast, it comes from the myth, after the passage of time, the myth declines, and the fragments of the story continue to shine into reality, so that the traces of the beast appear suddenly.