Legend has it that the phoenix is a male and the phoenix is a female. Why do many women name the phoenix without the phoenix?
In the process of seeking the phoenix, the phoenix is a male. But the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious, and the phoenix is a female. What the hell is going on here? Don't think it's ruining the three views. After all, our 5,-year cultural heritage is too long.
Phoenix, also known as "Phoenix Emperor", is the king of birds in ancient legends. The male is called "phoenix" and the female is called "phoenix", which is always called phoenix. Often used to symbolize auspicious, phoenix and Qi Fei, it is a symbol of auspiciousness and harmony, and has been an important element of China culture since ancient times. Before the Han Dynasty, the phoenix, the emperor or the phoenix and the phoenix were all the same auspicious birds, regardless of gender. Even if there were gender differences, the emperor was also a symbol of the male, because he was the king of white light. In ancient times, the sun was symbolized by the sun, the golden bird. It can also refer to heaven, so there is an idiom "the earth after the emperor".
since the Qin and Han dynasties, the dragon has gradually become the symbol of the emperor, and the empresses and concubines of the emperor began to call the phoenix more than the phoenix, and the image of the phoenix gradually became female. There is also an embarrassing situation in which the definition of "phoenix" is both male and female. Feng Qiu Huang refers to the most primitive explanation of the phoenix, which is regarded as a kind of god bird, and the two names, male and female, are called phoenix together. In the dragon and phoenix, phoenix represents phoenix, which refers to the meaning extended by later generations. Later generations often correspond to phoenix and dragon, such as the royal emperor is a dragon and the queen is a phoenix, so phoenix has the meaning of female.
Today, we just need to regard the phoenix as an auspicious totem, so as to hope for a happy and beautiful life. The images of dragons and phoenixes originated from totems created by ancestors, but in their early days, dragons belonged to yin, while phoenixes belonged to yang-contrary to people's impression of them now. From the Neolithic Age to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period when the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements prevailed, dragons mainly appeared as "yin objects" and phoenixes mainly as "yang objects".
In Qu Yuan's ci-fu, the phoenix and the dragon appeared 24 times each, but the phoenix acted as an emissary and the dragon was only the mount of the phoenix. The so-called dragon boat is also a phoenix "standing" on the dragon tail as a helmsman, driving the dragon boat. Since Qin and Han Dynasties, the relationship between dragons and phoenixes has changed, mainly because phoenixes began to change from yang to yin, and were gradually "feminized". After Qin and Han dynasties, the dragon began to have the divinity symbolizing the monarch and emperor.
After thousands of years' absorption, synthesis and evolution, the dragon's integration process has been initially completed, and the divinity of the dragon, such as flying to the sky, fickle, manifesting, collecting spirits and demonstrating, has become strong and obvious. These divinities are in common with the "imperial nature". For example, the dragon can "fly to the sky", and emperors also think that they are the "true sons of heaven" and are ordered by heaven. Therefore, Qin Shihuang was called "Zulong". Anyone who wants to be an emperor follows the example of this "dragon starter"
Because of its beautiful appearance, the phoenix is closer to the feminine who likes to dress up, so the empresses and concubines began to use the phoenix as their symbol. Consistent with the time when the emperor began to call himself a dragon, the dragon began to absorb the characteristics of the phoenix from the image, probably with the purpose of taking the beauty of the male yang in the phoenix as his own. Phoenix, as a beautiful bird, has important image characteristics of wings and claws, so the dragon steals from the teacher, gives birth to vigorous wings and grows sharp eagle claws. After the Han Dynasty, as long as the dragon and the phoenix are in the same picture, most of the patterns on cultural relics are that the dragon is in the middle and the phoenix is in the upper position, and the phoenix is in the lower position, and most of them are bigger than the phoenix.