Taotie (Pinyin: Tāotiè) is a great creation of the Miao ancestors and a comprehensive symbol of their ancestors Chiyou, Huandou and Panhu. Taotie is the fifth dragon among the nine sons of the dragon. Son! Taotie is a foodie by nature, so it is often decorated on the lid of the tripod. The gluttons decorated on the bridge were meant to be drinkable, so that the bridge would not be flooded.

Taotie can be said to be a kind of unjust mythical beast. The image of a good big brother has now been ravaged into the image of a complete alien gourmet... It may even have become a theme for guys in the advertising industry. The work terms that are always on our lips... There is such a record in "Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan: The Eighteenth Year of Wen Gong": "The Jinyun family had untalented people who were greedy for food, took bribes, and invaded and lavished. , Don't be tired of being surplus, accumulate wealth, don't know the rules, don't distinguish between orphans and widows, and don't care about the poor. The people of the world compare themselves to the three evils, which are called gluttons. , Taotie, and other descendants, to ward off the monsters." (The monsters are monsters in the mountains and forests in legends). In this ancient text about "Taotie", apart from the amazing leadership and driving ability of a certain ancestor, it can still be seen that people at that time called greedy people gluttonous. It can be seen that gluttony was widely regarded as a symbol of ferocity, greed and shamelessness at that time.

It is also recorded in "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals·Xian Shi Lan" (Volume 16): "Zhou Ding's gluttony has a head but no body. He eats people without swallowing them and harms their bodies. He will repay them with words." More.

"The origin of "having a head but no body" in this passage is more terrifying... According to folklore, this monster is greedy and after eating everything it can eat, it finally ate its own body. , in the end, only one head was left (fuck? How could it manage to swallow it?), so it got the reputation of "having a head but no body"... It's a pity that such a well-known and blatant evil speaker The strange existence of Xingxing has been beautified on today's Internet to be extremely attractive and cute... Type the word "Taotie" in any search engine... and all that will come out are A series of food post titles and gorgeous public relations manuscripts... In this era, everyone prides themselves on being a glutton, but I don’t know if they have thought about how to practice it and create a performance art of "having a head but no body"

Okay, first push away its invincible image of "sheep body and human face, tiger teeth and human claws, eyes growing under the armpits, and extremely fat", and then deliberately ignore the serious violation of physiological and physiological laws of eating yourself. The historical mystery of physics, so what is left seems to be a round elegance whose mission is to taste all the delicacies in the world."? "Oh... how easy it is to become a Taotie, but how difficult it is~~~