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During the Warring States Period, the marching formations included "suzaku in front and Xuanwu in the back, green dragon on the left and white tiger on the right." One of the main manifestations of the Four Gods in ancient China was military.

The so-called number of days is: Qinglong on the left, white tiger on the right, Suzaku in the front, and Xuanwu in the back. Therefore, if you are in the shadow in the hall, you can know the order of the sun and the moon; if you see the ice in the bottle, you can know the cold and heat of the world. ——"Huainanzi Bing Luo Xun"

Everyone who is familiar with Feng Shui in the Book of Changes knows that there are Suzaku in the front, Xuanwu in the back, Qinglong on the left, and White Tiger on the right. In fact, this is what ordinary people say that the four beasts are the four positive directions of the Bagua in the "Book of Changes". The Suzaku is the Li hexagram, the Xuanwu is the Kan hexagram, the green dragon is the Zhen hexagram, and the white tiger is the Dui hexagram.

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The green dragon, white tiger, red bird, and Xuanwu are also called the Four Symbols. They are the gods of the four directions in Chinese mythology, representing the four directions of east, west, south, and north respectively. China's ancient star belief, not Taoism, was not absorbed by Taoism until the Han Dynasty and became the Four Spirit God King.

Green Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku, and Xuanwu respectively represent the twenty-eight constellations in the four directions. For example, the dragon is the seven constellations in the East - Jiao, Kang, Di, Fang, Xin, Wei, and Ji, and these seven The shape of Su is very similar to that of a dragon. It can be seen from the meaning of their words: Jiao is the dragon's horn, Kang is the neck, Di is the base, which is the base of the neck, Fang is the shoulder and flank, Xin is the heart, and Tail is the base of the neck. The tail is the tip of the tail. There is a blue dragon in the east, a white tiger in the west, a red bird in the south, a black dragon in the north, and a yellow dragon in the center (some say Yinglong).

The green dragon in the east, the white tiger in the west, the red bird in the south, the black dragon in the north, and the yellow dragon in the middle. Corresponds to metal, wood, water, fire and earth. The blue dragon represents wood, the white tiger represents gold, the red bird represents fire, the black dragon represents water, and the yellow dragon in the center represents earth. Ancient Chinese astronomers divided the stars in the sky into seven star regions: "Three Yuan" and "Four Symbols". The so-called "Yuan" means "city wall".

"Sanyuan" is "Ziweiyuan", symbolizing the palace; "Taiweiyuan" symbolizes the administrative agency; "Tianshiyuan" symbolizes the bustling market. These three walls are arranged in a triangle shape surrounding the North Star. There are "four elephants" distributed around the "Three Walls": "East Canglong, West White Tiger, South Suzaku, and North Xuanwu".

In other words, the stars in the east are like a dragon, the stars in the west are like a tiger, the stars in the south are like a big bird, and the stars in the north are like turtles and snakes. As the earth orbits the sun, the stars in the sky change with the seasons. Every evening at the turn of winter and spring, the black dragon appears; at the turn of spring and summer, the red bird rises; at the turn of summer and autumn, the white tiger appears; at the turn of autumn and winter, the basalt rises. Some people collectively call it the "Four Divine Beasts"

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku Xuanwu