Feng Shui aspects of the white tiger totem
In addition to the four spirits in Taoism, including the green dragon and white tiger, when Feng Shui masters explore cemeteries, the protruding terrain on the left and right in front of the terrain, which can be used as tombs, has a unique title. They are called green dragons on the left and white tigers on the right, taking the meaning of their protection. The same decoration is also found in the public hall, with green dragons and hundreds of tigers painted on the left and right pillars to suppress evil spirits. After the rise of Taoism, dragon and tiger were borrowed as Taoist alchemy terms, which refer to the synonyms of lead and mercury, Kanli, water and fire, yin and yang, etc. Taoist alchemy is divided into internal and external (internal elixir for refining qi and external elixir for refining elixirs. The author is not very knowledgeable and I am not sure). In terms of yin and yang and the five elements, inner elixir is based on yin and yang and the five elements. Dragon and yang are born from Li, and Li belongs to fire, so it is said that "dragon follows fire" "Li Chu", tiger yin, is born in the ridge, and kan is water, so it is said that "the tiger is born by the water". After the two are combined, one yin and one yang harmonize with each other, which is called the Tao. They are both the soul and the essence. representative. Another way of saying it is that nature belongs to wood, and wood represents the east, and it is in the hexagram Zhen, so it is compared to a green dragon; love belongs to gold, and gold represents the west, and it is dui in the hexagram, and gold is white, so it is called a white tiger. Metal can overcome wood, so emotions can damage nature. If you use the true essence of Erba to combine them into one, then metal and wood will be seamless, and dragons and tigers will form elixirs by themselves. In the human body, the liver is the dragon and the kidneys are the elixir. Tiger, while Waidan still takes the meaning of yin and yang, with dragon as lead and tiger as mercury.