Nuwa
Nuwa is a goddess in Chinese history and mythology. She is the brother and sister of Fu Xi. With a human head and a snake's body, she is said to have made five-colored stones to mend the sky, and to have rolled up the earth to create human beings, made the rite of marriage, continued human life, and created all living things in the world. Nuwa is the great mother of the Chinese nation, who created us kindly and bravely took care of us from natural disasters. She is widely and long worshipped by the people as the creator god and ancestor god. She is so powerful that she can create at least seventy things every day.
The Taiping Yuban: Before Nuwa created human beings, she created chickens on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, dogs on the second day, sheep on the third day, pigs on the fourth day, horses on the sixth day, and on the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, Nuwa used loess and water to create small clay figures in the image of herself, and after she had created a number of them, she felt that it was too slow, and then she used a rattan cane dipped in mud and swung it around, and little by little, the mud was spilled on the ground, and they all turned into human beings. and they all became human beings. In order to perpetuate the human race, she created the rite of marriage and acted as a matchmaker herself, so that people would know how to "make a man" and pass on the family name by their own strength. According to another legend, "Dui Yi Zhi", Nuwa and Fuxi were brother and sister. When the universe first began, they were the only two people in the world, at the foot of the Kunlun Mountains, and there were no other people in the world. They wanted to be husband and wife, but they were ashamed of themselves. The brother went up to the Kunlun Mountain with his sister and said, "If Heaven agrees that my brother and sister should be husband and wife, please close all the clouds in the sky, or else disperse them. So the clouds in the sky immediately came together, and the two of them became husband and wife, and the Chinese nation are the descendants of the two of them.
The record of Nuwa Wa mending the sky can be found in Huai Nan Zi: In the flood era, the god of water **** Gong and the god of fire Zhu Rong had a big fight because of a quarrel, and Zhu Rong finally defeated **** Gong, and the god of water **** Gong crashed into the western Bu Zhou Mountain in anger because of the defeat, but he didn't know that the Bu Zhou Mountain was the pillar that held up the heaven, and the Bu Zhou Mountain crumbled, and the pillar that held up the heaven and the earth snapped, and the heaven fell down by half, and a big hole appeared, and the earth also fell into a big hole. The sky fell in half and a big hole appeared, the earth was sunk into a big crack, the mountains and forests burned with fire, floods gushed out from under the ground, and dragons and snakes and fierce beasts came out to devour the people. The human race was faced with an unprecedented catastrophe.
Witnessing such a catastrophe, Nuwa felt great pain, so she resolved to mend the sky to end the catastrophe. She chose a variety of colorful stones, set up a fire to melt them into pulp, and used this pulp to fill the hole in the sky, then chopped off the four legs of a large turtle and used them as four pillars to support the collapsed half of the sky. Nuwa also captured the Black Dragon, which had been brutalizing the people, and put an end to the arrogance of the dragon and the snake. Finally, in order to stop the floods from flowing, Nuwa also collected a large amount of reed grass, burned it to ashes, and buried it to stop the floods from spreading out in all directions.
After Nuwa's hard work, the sky was finally filled, the earth was leveled, the water was stopped, the dragons, snakes, and beasts were stopped, and the people were able to live in peace and happiness again. But this great disaster has left its mark. From then on, the sky was still tilted somewhat to the northwest, so that the sun, the moon, and the sun and the earth were tilted to the west, and because the earth was tilted to the southeast, all the rivers flowed in that direction. When the rainbow appears in the sky, it is the colored light of our great Nuwa's Heaven Mending Stone.
Nuwa labored so hard that she was listed in the Western Han Dynasty's "Chanting Sex School? Painting z is listed and her brother Fuxi, tasted a hundred herbs to save countless people Shennong for the Chinese people at the beginning of the beginning of the three emperors
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传说中的女神。 Originally, she was a strange goddess in charge of plagues and punishment, but she was gradually feminized and clasped in the process of transmission, and became an old and kind goddess. According to legend, the Queen Mother lived in the Yao Chi in the Kunlun Mountains, where peaches were planted in the garden, and could be eaten to live forever. Also known as Golden Mother, Yaochi Golden Mother and Queen Mother of the West.
According to the ancient book "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Queen Mother of the West has the shape of a man, with a leopard's tail and tiger's teeth, good at whistling, with a bushy mane of hair and wearing a victory, and she is the one who is responsible for the severe and five disabilities in the sky." (The meaning seems to be: the shape of the Queen Mother of the West is 'like a man', with a tail like a leopard, a mouthful of teeth like a tiger, and is very good at roaring with a high frequency of sound. She had a head full of disheveled hair and wore a square hat. (He is a god sent from heaven to spread viruses and various disasters). His appearance is terrifying, and he is a god who spreads plagues! He lives on the top of Kunlun's hill, and has three giant raptors called "green birds" that bring him food and daily necessities every day.
But in the biography of Mu Tian Zi, Xi Wang Mu speaks and acts like a gentle ruler. When King Mu of Zhou traveled around the world in his eight steeds, which were driven by Zuo Fu, and reached the Kunlun Mountain area on his western tour, he took out his white gui xuanbi and other jade objects to pay homage to Queen Mother of the West. The next day, King Mu invited Queen Mother of the West to a banquet at Yaochi, and both of them sang some clear verses to bless each other.
The Inner Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty described her as a goddess of great beauty and gave Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty a peach that bears fruit once every 3,000 years. Taoism has designated the third day of the third month of every year as the birth anniversary of the Queen Mother and held a festival on this day, commonly known as the Peach Festival.
Some Chinese scholars and experts believe that the mythical Queen Mother of the West (Wangmu Niangniang) is a real person in history. Li Xiaowei, a scholar who studies the culture of Kunlun, was quoted by Xinhua as saying, "In fact, by the countless mythological halo emblems value Nai Spriggs Tattoo K is not a celestial fairy, but a female chieftain of the nomadic tribes west of the Qinghai Lake."
Years of research and fieldwork by some scholars and experts have found that there was once a pastoral kingdom, the Kingdom of Xiwangmu, more than 3,000 to 5,000 years ago. Its territory includes today's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Kunlun, Qilian two major mountain ranges sandwiched between the vast area, Qinghai Lake Lake grasslands, Qaidam Basin is its most affluent center area. According to evidence, the ancient kingdom of Xiwangmu was the "national capital" of Tianjun County, Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, on the western shore of Qinghai Lake.
Professor Zhang Zhongxiao of the Department of Geography at Qinghai Normal University pointed out in his signed article, "It is worth stating that Xiwangmu was both the title of an ancient tribal state and the honorific title of the queen of the ancient state, which was passed down from generation to generation." Existing ancient texts prove that, from the two Jin dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties and even the Republic of China, a large number of queen tribes existed in the Qinghai grassland area, north and south of the Kunlun Mountains, and the Suebi tribe is one of the most famous.
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Jade Emperor
Taoism calls the supreme sovereign god of the heavenly realm the Jade Emperor, as if he were the emperor of the earth, holding the 36 heavens above and the 72 earths below, and in charge of all the gods, Buddhas, fairies, saints, and the affairs of the earth and the hells. He is also known as the God of Heaven, the God of Heaven's Ancestor, the Jade Emperor, the Jade Heavenly Emperor, the Jade Emperor, and the Jade Emperor God.
According to the Jade Emperor Collection, the son of King Guangming Miaoluo gave up his throne, learned Taoism and practiced Buddhism on Mount Xiangyan in Jinming, assisted the country to save the people, and transformed all living beings, and after hundreds of millions of kalpas, he finally became the Jade Emperor.
It has been said that the Jade Emperor is the Taoist "Yuanshi Tianzun" (short for Yuqing Yuanshi Tianzun, the highest deity worshipped in Taoism). The highest god worshipped by Taoism.)
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Youxing Taiyou
Youxing Taiyou, the evil god of folklore. One is said to be Jupiter (year star), one is said to be the god of the Lord's four seasons of cold and heat, and one is said to be the god of the twelve hours of the day. Since the Western Han Dynasty, it is believed that all construction, migration, marriage and other good and bad luck are related to its orientation. If you break the law and move the earth, you will dig up a piece of meat, that is, the incarnation of the evil god, and will lead to disaster. The old custom of every construction of earth moving things, must first explore its direction to avoid. After the Yuan and Ming Dynasty, there is a special altar for worship. In later times, it was also known as the name of the evil person. This is the origin of the saying "How dare you move earth on the head of Tai Sui". The name is also used to refer to a person who has the audacity to do something wrong.
Everyone says that the fate of the year of the tiger is a bad one --- that is him!
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Zhenwu Da Di
The origin of Zhenwu Da Di: Zhenwu Da Di, also known as Xuanwu God, Xuan Tian God. According to "Taishang said Xuan Tian Da Sheng Zhenwu Ben Chuan Shen Mantra Wonderful Sutra", Zhenwu Da Di is Taishang Laojun eighty-second change of the body, born in the Dala realm on the desireless heavenly palace, the king of pure music, Queen of Shan Sheng's son. The Queen swallowed the sun in a dream and became pregnant after 14 months and more than 400 hours, and was born in the King's palace. After he had grown up, he left his home and resigned from his parents, and entered Wudang Mountain to practice Taoism. After forty-two years, he achieved full results and ascended to heaven in the white sun. The Jade Emperor had an order to appoint him as Taixuan, and he was to be the supporter of the northern part of the country. The word "Xuanwu" is the general name of the seven northern lodges in the twenty-eight lodges. In Qu Yuan's "Chu Rhetoric", there is a sentence that says, "Calling Xuanwu and running to his family". Xuanwu seven hosts of the shape of the tortoise and snake, so the note said, "Xuanwu is the tortoise and snake, located in the north, so it is called Xuan, body scales and armor, so it is called Wu". During the Kai Bao period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the god Xuanwu descended to Zhongnan Mountain. In the sixth year of Taiping Xingguo (981), he was appointed as General Yisheng. In the seventh year of Emperor Song Zhenzong's reign (1014), the deity was named Yi Sheng Baode Zhenjun (翌圣保德真君). Later, in order to avoid the taboo of Emperor Zhao Xuanlang (赵玄朗), the deity was changed to Zhenwu (真武). Song Zhenzong, Song Huizong, South Song Qinzong, etc. repeatedly sealed. The Yuan Dynasty Dade seven years (1303) to seal Zhenwu as the Yuan Sheng Renwei Xuan Tian God. Ming Chengzu worship Zhenwu, the imperial supervision, bureau, department, factory, library and other Yamen, are built Zhenwu Temple, dedicated to Zhenwu Da Di statue. Yongle ten years (1412) and ordered the Marquis of Longping Zhang Xin rate of more than 200,000 people to build the Wudang Mountain Palace Group, so that the incense of the Wudang Mountain Zhenwu Da Di reached its peak.
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Tai Shang Lao Jun
It was said that Dan was a native of the bitter county of Chu in the Spring and Autumn period. He was once the historian of the Zhou Dynasty who guarded the hidden room. He was the founder of Taoism, and was regarded as the originator of Taoism in later times. Confucius was a scholar of Taoism, and he wrote more than 5,000 words in the Tao Te Ching. Nowadays, in various trades, such as blacksmiths, kiln makers, chopsticks makers, knife sharpeners, hoof makers, etc., they all worship Laozi as their ancestor.
Among the vast array of books in Chinese civilization, one of the most widely translated and read books abroad is the Tao Te Ching. The central idea of Tao Te Ching is "Tao", and "Tao" is "Tao may be Tao, but it is not Tao. A name can be a name, but it is not a name. Although it is difficult to understand the meaning of "Tao", we can say that "Tao" means "nature".
The Taoists believe that individuals should not oppose the Tao, but rather submit to it and act according to it. It is absurd and highly immoral to fight for power and gain. "The Tao is invincible and one should act in accordance with it. Taoists believe that water is very soft and weak, willingly flowing towards the lower parts of the earth and showing no resistance even when it meets the weakest force, yet water is indestructible. On the contrary, the hardest stone will be broken by water one day. For the individual, simplicity and nature are commendable. Violence should be avoided and one should be puritanical. One should not change the world, but respect it. For governments, a policy of doing nothing is the wisest course. Passing more elaborate laws or enforcing them usually makes things worse. High taxes and wars are contrary to the spirit of Taoist philosophy. The images of the Tao Te Ching are huge. It is a short book, less than 6,000 words in Chinese, but its ideas are extremely rich. In China, although Confucianism has been the mainstay of Chinese philosophy through the ages, Confucianism has nevertheless absorbed many of the ideas of Taoism into its philosophy, and Confucianism still respects Taoist thought.
Tai Shang Lao Jun is one of the highest gods of Taoism, one of the three super gods. He was first sanctified in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Zhang Ling (later Zhang Tianshi) of the Eastern Han Dynasty founded the Tao of the Heavenly Masters, and in order to fight against Buddhism, he raised Laozi as his ancestor and honored him as Taishang Laojun. Later, he was called "Taishang Daode Tianzun" (太上道德天尊). Later, Taoist canonical texts deified Laozi extremely, saying that he was born in the beginning of time, no reason to start, is the first of all things, the first of the yuan qi.