Gluttony, pronounced as tāo tiè, is the fifth son of the legendary dragon and a fictional mysterious monster.
The ancient book Shan Hai Jing introduced its characteristics: sheep body, eyes under the armpit, tiger teeth and claws, big head and big mouth. He is so greedy that he eats everything he sees. Because I ate too much, I was finally killed. Later, people who described greed were called "gluttony". There are related images in games, novels, comics and film and television works.
The legendary greedy monster.
In ancient Zhong Ding, the shape of the head was carved on Yi vessels as decoration. Lu Chunqiu briefly said: gluttony.
, Kubinashi body, cannibalism did not swallow, harm its body, to say more. "The Wonders of Southwest Yuan Ye": "The southwest is a sea of people, hairy, greedy as a wolf, good at gathering money and not eating people's valleys. The strong take the weak and dare not stop, which is called gluttony. " "Song Shaobo recorded after listening" Volume 26: "Shao Shengchu, his ancestor was an official in Chang 'an Mansion. He sold soup and cakes in front of the temple of Emperor Gaozu in Xicheng, and got a white jade, which was more than a foot high. Carved with clouds and dragons all over the ground, it is built into a mountain in the sea, which is enough for gluttony and is the treasure of three generations. "With the changes of the times, the gluttonous pattern in the business harmony symbolizes the meaning of governing the country and is gradually forgotten by people. Later generations have exaggerated the gluttonous part of the gluttonous image. Su Dongpo once wrote a "Gourmet Fu", saying: "The beauty of the polymer is to support my gourmet. "It adds a little taste to gluttony. Today, friends who like food are called "gluttons".
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He also said that gluttony is called gluttony, so gourmets are commonly known as "gourmets"; Greedy for money. Shu Wei Huan Xuan Chuan, a greedy and disabled person: "Take the pride of concubines, almost like six bodies, and make ministers and servants shoot as matchmakers, and the long history is to welcome guests and celebrate the long autumn." Sun Hua's "Send Millet" in the Qing Dynasty: "Make officials eat and drink, and the imperial edict is empty." Zhang Daiyi: "Therefore, the greedy husband is in the court and gluttonous in the big court."
Especially a glutton.
The first act of Cao Yu's Peking Man: "And he is the most particular about eating. He is a famous glutton and is good at tasting the beauty and evil of food. " "Gluttony" is a mythical beast in ancient legends in China, and its greatest feature is that it can eat. It is a fictional mysterious monster. This monster has no body because he can eat his own body too much. He only has a big head and a big mouth. He is so greedy that he eats everything he sees. Because he ate too much, he was finally killed. It is a symbol of greed, so it is often used to describe greedy or insatiable people.
Metaphor greed
Greedy and incomplete "Old Tang Wenshuyuan Xia Chuan Ada": "There is no policy of clearing benefits at home, but there is gluttony; There is no loyalty, but there is a crime of rape. " Ai Qing's poem "Reed Flute Ma Qian": "Its gluttonous swallowing of whales can make the rich land of the East suffer from locust plague and drought, which is beyond saving!"
Swallow greedily
Tang Du Fu's poem "Chewing": "Pretend to be a thief, gluttonous." Qing Li Yu's "Nai Tian Companion Vinegar": "In the end, I don't feel gluttonous, and the first guest is empty." Nie Gannu's: The evil spirits of human beings inhabit these living bones, and in their dead lives, they feast on human flesh. "
Legend has it that he is one of the four executioners of Yao and Shun.
"Zuo Zhuan Wen Zhuan Gong Eighteen Years": "Yao, a guest in four doors, four fierce families, chaos, and gluttony, voted for four generations to resist charm. It is because of the collapse of Yao that the world is one, and it is one, thinking that the son of heaven, with sixteen differences and four evils. " "Lu Chunqiu Yijun": "The north of Sakamoto Gate, the land of eagle birds and spies, the land of gluttony." See the four pests entry. Among the four murderers, Chaos, Qiong Qi, Graceful and Gluttony are just metaphors.
Other explanations
In the Southern Dynasties, the surname of Liang Sai-jo gave Wuling Ji Wang a gluttonous surname. See Biography of King Wuling of Liang Shu. Gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins in Divine Comedy, is wasting food, or indulging one's appetite excessively, drinking too much or hoarding too much food. Dante's view is "excessive greed for pleasure."
extended meaning
The original meaning of "gluttony" is gluttony, but in modern catering industry, gluttony is extended to "being able to eat". For example, in the monthly magazine Gourmet Gourmet, a famous restaurant in Zhou Ji, Guangzhou, the word "Gourmet" is the exclusive reputation of people who love and can eat, and many gourmets call themselves "gourmets" happily.
Can be combined into: gluttonous feast: a banquet with a lot of food. Gluttonous vision: there is great enjoyment in vision. Similar words include: gluttonous meal, gluttonous food, gluttonous night, gluttonous culture, gluttonous digital, gluttonous advertisement and so on. Add gluttony after the domain noun to describe the grand meeting and salon in this field. Like the last three words.
First, gluttony is a kind of "evil beast", not fish, snakes, pythons, crocodiles, nor fish or reptiles. In Ci Hai, Shang and he both have gluttonous patterns. As long as you look at it, you can recognize who that fierce beast looks like, very much like the front of a wolf, with round eyes and fierce eyes.
Second, gluttony clearly pointed out the characteristics of wolves. "Extreme gluttony" is one of the most prominent characteristics of coyotes. There is no more greedy animal in the world than a wolf. If you don't believe me, you can ask the old herdsmen who is the most "gluttonous beast" in the world. The answer must be a wolf. As we all know, "greed" is synonymous with wolf nature. Dong Zhongshu said that greed for wolves was a common custom in Qin dynasty, and he also juxtaposed greed with wolves. People in China always describe gluttony as "gorging" and put wolves in front of tigers. Wolves are more greedy than tigers. When describing greed, they all say "wolf ambition", not "tiger ambition" Because gluttony has the characteristics of "evil beast" and "very gluttonous wolf", and the gluttonous mode is very similar to a wolf. Therefore, the legendary gluttony is probably a wolf, or a beast evolved from a wolf.
Third, gluttony has become the main decorative pattern of Shanghe, which involves a series of problems. Baoding was a heavy weapon of the Chinese nation in the Bronze Age. In the Zhou Dynasty, "Ding" was a symbol of the supreme royal power, and it was also a ritual instrument for offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors. Ding is a national "totem pole" in the eyes of Chinese ancestors. Therefore, only the totem belonging to the nation is qualified to ascend such a lofty position and be engraved and cast on the Baoding. This phenomenon also reflects two problems: First, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Chinese nation was a dragon totem, and the totem worship heritage of Yan Di and the ancestors of the Yellow Emperor may still exist. Because Zhou originated in Xirong, and Xirong is mostly a nomadic people who worship wolf totem; Second, the "dragon" at that time may not have been generally accepted, and it has not really become the national totem of the Chinese nation. Otherwise, Baoding, a symbol of kingship, will definitely use dragons as its main decoration. Moreover, at that time, Zhou had not sat in the dragon chair. At that time, he continued the nomadic legacy of China people: sitting on the floor. The decorative patterns on the Zhou Ding are mainly composed of gluttonous patterns and moire patterns, with gluttony as the center and moire patterns around. Obviously, the gluttonous beast is in the sky, sticking its head out of the clouds and looking down at the world. Its body is hidden in the clouds. I don't know whether there is a snake body or a dragon body, but if the dragon body is attached to the back of the gluttonous head, it is not far from the later standard dragon. So I think there may be a transitional stage between the wolf totem and the dragon totem. Gluttony not only has the character of a wolf, but also has the ferocious face of the context.
The real name and prototype of the beast referred to in the animal face pattern have long been buried in an era that cannot be reproduced. Later generations were named gluttonous because of their ferocious, mysterious and horrible faces, and some of them still had heads in their mouths. Gourmets were originally used in Zuo Zhuan to describe heartless people who are greedy for money and food. Modern scholars point out that it is far-fetched to name the animal tattoo as a gluttonous person, which goes against the social and cultural situation in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Because of its fierce and horrible face and notorious gluttony, the trace of this beast in the cultural and artistic evolution of China is almost impossible to find. In the mid-Western Zhou Dynasty, animal ornamentation, which had prevailed for hundreds of years, suddenly withdrew from the main pattern of bronze decoration. However, several animal patterns, such as dragon, tiger, phoenix and turtle, which appeared on bronzes at the same time, appeared in official and folk cultures in the later cultural evolution, and became the most famous mascot and endless theme of artistic expression in China culture. Dragons, in particular, in the bronze age, mostly had the same ferocious face as gluttonous patterns. As far as mystery, power and status are concerned, dragons were far less than gluttony in the Bronze Age. However, the dragon later ascended the highest throne of China's cultural and political symbol, and the supreme "gluttony" in the Bronze Age has been hard to find.