As the saying goes, "Left green dragon, right white tiger", what does it mean? Many people made a mistake.
So, as the saying goes, "Left Dragon and Right White Dragon", what does it mean?
Many people don't understand this concept, so it's easy to make mistakes, because most people often take it for granted that "left green dragon, right white tiger" is the acupuncture point of Feng Shui, but in fact they misunderstand the true connotation of this concept.
Because the phrase "left green dragon, right white tiger" actually comes from the concept of ancient astronomy in China, that is, astrology. In ancient times, the ancients were curious about the unknown and thought that there was some unknown law behind the operation of things. So when observing the starry sky, the stars in the sky are artificially divided into many parts, which is what we often call "twenty-eight stars", that is, in the direction of southeast and northwest.
In the East, Qinglong has seven nights: Jiao, Kang, Shi, Fang, Xin, Wei and Ji.
The starry sky in the west is a white tiger with seven nights: Kui, Lou, Stomach, Ang, Bi, Gou and Shen.
The southern starry sky is the seven nights of Suzaku: well, ghost, willow, star, Zhang, wing and bird.
The starry sky in the north is the seven nights of Xuanwu: fighting, cows, women, air, danger, houses and walls.
This is the origin of "left green dragon, right white tiger", which is the original prototype of four beasts: green dragon, white tiger, suzaku and Xuanwu. In other words, these four beasts are just the names used by ancient astronomy to express the stars, but in order to express them more vividly, the ancients changed to the end beasts, which did not have some mysterious factors and colors as our future generations took it for granted. The same is true of "there is a dragon on the left and a white tiger on the right"
Therefore, it is not necessary for our descendants to look at these names from a mythical perspective, let alone put them in the right position with the concept of geomantic omen or numerology, because these sayings, "Zuo Qinglong, You White Tiger", are just a symbol originated from the social culture at that time and the product of the specific social environment at that time, so there is no need to interpret them too much and there is not much room for them to play.
Therefore, for the understanding of "left green dragon, right white tiger", in fact, many people have made a mistake.
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The information in this paper is mainly quoted from Sikuquanshu.