Taotie, pronounced tāo tiè, is the fifth son of the legendary dragon. The ancient book "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" describes its characteristics as: sheep body, eyes under the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, a big head and A big mouth. He was very greedy and ate whatever he saw. He ate too much and eventually died of starvation. Later, a greedy person was described as: "Glutton". There are related images in games, novels, comics, and film and television works. A legendary gluttonous monster. Ancient bells and tripods were often engraved with the shape of their heads on Yi vessels for decoration. "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals": "Zhou Ding was a gluttonous monster with a head and no body. He ate people without swallowing them, causing harm to others." The body should be repaid with words. ""Shenyi Jing·Southwestern Wilderness Jing": "There are people in the southwest who have hairy bodies and wear hogs on their heads. They are as greedy as wolves and like to accumulate wealth for themselves. They don't eat people's valleys. The strong ones. Seize the old and the weak, fear the crowd and attack them individually, which is called Taotie. "Volume 26 of Song Shaobo's "Records after Hearing and Seeing": "In the early days of Shaosheng Dynasty, my ancestor was an official in Chang'an Mansion, and he sold soup cakes in front of the Han Emperor Gaozu Temple in Xicheng. I got a white jade dome, which was more than a foot high, and was engraved with clouds, dragons and phoenixes. The cover was like a sacred mountain in the sea, and it was enough for a gluttonous meal. It was truly a treasure of the third generation. " 2. It is a metaphor for the gluttonous nature of a greedy person, so it is placed on the lid of the cauldron. The ancient tripod was the earliest cooking utensil. It is also said that gluttony is called gluttony, so gourmets are commonly called "old gluttons"; greedy money is called Tie. "Wei Shu·Huan Xuan Biography" of the greedy and crippled person: "The concubine who took the concubine is almost the same as the six bodies, so he made the minister servant serve as a matchmaker, the chief minister welcomed the guests, and the concubine feasted on her and congratulated her on the long autumn." Sun Hua of the Qing and Tang Dynasties " "Fa Su Xing": "The officials were made to gorge themselves on gluttony, and the edicts were hung on the wall with empty words." Zhang Binglin's "Deputy Ran Bu Lun": "Therefore, the greedy men were made to fill the court, and the gluttonous tribute was paid to the court." Specifically refers to gluttony. The first scene of Cao Yu's "Peking Man": "And he is the most particular about eating. He is a famous glutton, good at tasting the good and evil of food." "Taotie" is a mythical beast in ancient Chinese legends. Its biggest characteristic is that it can eat. It is an imaginary mysterious monster. This kind of monster has no body because it can eat its own body. It only has a big head and a big mouth. It is very greedy and eats whatever it sees. Because it eats too much, it eventually dies of starvation. It is a symbol of greed, so it is often used to describe gluttonous or greedy people. It is a metaphor for greed and cruelty. "Old Book of Tang Dynasty·Wenyuan Chuanxia·Liu Di" says: "There is no clear and beneficial government at the top, but there is the harm of gluttony; there is no loyalty at the bottom, but there is the crime of treachery and deception." Ai Qing's "Reed Flute" · Ma Qian's poem: "Its gluttonous whale can make the fertile land in the east suffer even more than it has been attacked by locusts and drought, and it is too deep to be rescued!" Greedily devouring the poem "Muntuntjac" by Du Fu of Tang Dynasty : "A thief in clothes and a thief, a glutton with a beard." Li Yu of the Qing Dynasty, "Nai He Tian· Huo Jian": "In the end, the greedy man who barged into the banquet will be the first guest to bear the consequences." Nie Gannu's "A Brief Discussion of Mr. Lu Xun's Works" "Weeds>": "And the evil spirits of human beings are perched on these living bones, and the dead are feasting on human flesh." According to legend, he was one of the four evil spirits during the reign of Yao and Shun. "Zuo Zhuan: The Eighteenth Year of Duke Wen": " Shun ministered to Yao, and came to the four gates, and the four evil tribes, Chaos, Qiongqi, Yongzhao, and Taotie, joined the four descendants to ward off Chi Mei. Therefore, after Yao's death, the world became unified, and they unitedly worshiped Shun as the emperor. The sixteen signs are used to eliminate the four evils. "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals": "To the north of Yanmen, there is a country where hawks and birds of prey must spy." See the entry on the four evils. The four evils are Hundun, Qiongqi, Taotie, and Taotie. Gluttony The seven deadly sins - gluttony, greed, laziness, lust, arrogance, jealousy and rage - are considered by Catholics to be the seven deadly sins of eternal damnation. They have repeatedly appeared in the Bible, famous paintings and sermons by medieval church figures. Among the topics, the discussions in the religious works of Thomas Aquinas, Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" are still famous. Christianity more directly uses the images of Satan's seven demons to represent the seven sins (the seven deadly sins): Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, and Greed. , Gluttony, and Lust. They are gluttony, lust, greed for money, sadness, anger, laziness, conceitedness and pride. Other meanings: 7. The surname was given to King Wuling by Emperor Liang Shizu of the Southern Dynasty. The surname was Taotie. See "Book of Liang: Biography of King Wuling". 8. It is said that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, one of whom was Taotie, ranking fifth. 9. Online game House of Resentment In the online game House of Resentment, Taotie is a set of artifacts, and only three of them can coexist. When the fourth item appears, one of the first three items will be automatically withdrawn by the system. 10. One of the seven deadly sins in the Divine Comedy, gluttony is wasting food, or overindulging one’s appetite, drinking too much, or hoarding too much food. Dante's point of view is "excessive pursuit of pleasure." Extended meaning: The original meaning of "Taotie" is gluttony, but in the modern catering industry, Taotie is extended to "good at eating". For example, in the monthly magazine "Lao Taotie" of Guangzhou Zhouji Mingdianju (teahouse), "Gourmet people" The word is an exclusive nickname for those diners who love to eat and know how to eat, and many gourmets happily call themselves "gourmet people". The words can be composed as follows: Gluttonous feast: a banquet with a lot of food. Gluttonous vision: a great visual enjoyment. Similar words are: gluttonous feast, gluttonous food, gluttonous night, cultural gluttony, digital gluttony, advertising gluttony, etc. Add Taotie after the noun in the field to describe events, salons, etc. in the field. Such as the last three words. Edit this paragraph of historical records: "Cihai" records: Taotie is "a legendary gluttonous evil beast."

Ancient bells and tripods were often engraved with the shape of their heads as decoration. "Cihai" said when explaining the word "tao": "Tao" means "greed". "Hanshu·Liyuezhi": "Greed and glutton are dangerous" Yan Shigu notes: "Greedy is called glutton." ’ refers specifically to gluttony. ""Shenyi Jing·Southwestern Wilderness Jing": "There is a person in the southwest, with a hairy body and a pig on his head. Greed is like cruelty, hoarding wealth without using it, and good at taking other people's grains (the original text of the last two sentences is "good at hoarding money for oneself, but not eating other people's grains", adapted from the "Historical Records of the Five Emperors"). The strong take over the old and the weak, and they are afraid of the strong and attack alone. This is called Taotie. "Spring and Autumn" Those who are gluttonous are the untalented people of the Jinyun family. "Zuo Zhuan·Wen Gong's 18th Year" says: "The Jinyun family had untalented people who were greedy for food and drink, risked bribes, invaded and revered luxury, and could not get tired of it. Poverty. The people of the world compare the three evils and call them gluttonous. "The so-called "Spring and Autumn Annals" in the "Shen Yi Jing" are this. "Lu Shi Chun Qiu Xian Shi Lan": "Zhou Ding wrote gluttonous food, which has a head but no body. He eats people without swallowing them and harms his body. He repays them with words. also. Luo Mi of the Song Dynasty notes in "History of Lu: Biography of Chi You": "The god of Chi You's celestial talisman has an unusual shape. Among the Yi utensils of the three generations, there are many images of Chi You, which is a warning to those who are greedy and abusive." Its image is in the shape of an animal with fleshy wings. "Kui Qi's words are probably Taotie. "Zuo Zhuan" calls Taotie an "untalented son of the Jinyun family", and the explanatory note of "Historical Records: The Chronicles of the Five Emperors" quotes Jia Xuan as saying: "The Jinyun family, surnamed Jiang, is a descendant of Emperor Yan. When Huang Di was an official in Jinyun. "Chiyou's surname was Jiang, and he was also a descendant of Emperor Yan ("Lu Shi Biography of Chi You"), so Chi You was probably the "untalented son" Taotie of the Jinyun family. According to legend, Taotie was the head of Chi You who was beheaded after he was defeated by the Yan and Huang emperors. The body and head of this class were filled with resentment, and had the ability to devour all things. They were sealed by the Yellow Emperor with the Xuanyuan Sword (a metaphor for the dragon pattern on the sword), and were guarded by the lion clan for generations (gatekeeper stone lions). The "Roe Deer Owl" recorded in "The Classics", Guo Pu's annotation is that it is the Taotie in "Zuo Zhuan" "The Strange Beasts of Gods and Demons": There is an evil beast in the extreme south of China, with four eyes, black skin, a long neck and four legs. Fierce and extremely greedy, it moves as fast as the wind and is a kind of dragon water beast. It has a pair of horns on its head and is surrounded by cold air. Most of them are green and white, and they are dozens of feet long. They are sometimes gentle and sometimes violent. It stirs up waves of several feet, which is extremely powerful. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Beishan Jing" says: "There is a lot of jade on the top of Gouwu Mountain, and a lot of copper on the bottom." There is a beast, its shape is like a sheep's body and a human face, its eyes are under the armpits, it has tiger teeth and human claws, and its voice is like a baby. It is called a roe deer owl, and it is a cannibal. There is a saying in the "Shenyi Jing·Xihuang Jing": "Taotie, the name of the beast, has a body like an ox, a human face, eyes under the armpits, and cannibalism." Related issues in editing this paragraph: First, the Taotie is an "evil beast", Rather than fish, snake, python, crocodile, fish or reptile, "Cihai" also has the Taotie pattern on the tripod of Shang and Zhou dynasties. You can identify who that ferocious beast looks like just by looking at it. It looks very much like a wolf from the front. It also has round eyes and is extremely ferocious. Second, they are gluttonous and even gluttonous. This characteristic clearly points out the characteristics of wolves. "Extreme gluttony" is one of the most outstanding characteristics of the prairie wolf. There is no animal in the world that is more gluttonous than the wolf. If you don’t believe it, you can ask the old herders who is the most “voracious beast” in the world? The answer is definitely wolf. As we all know, "greed" is synonymous with wolf nature. Dong Zhongshu said that the Qin Dynasty "takes greed as a wolf as a custom" and also juxtaposed greed with wolves. The Chinese always describe gluttony as "wolfing down", and they also rank wolves before tigers, as wolves are more gluttonous than tigers. To describe greed, one would say "wolf ambition" but not "tiger ambition". Because Taotie has the characteristics of two wolves: "evil beast" and "very gluttonous", and the pattern of Taotie resembles that of a wolf. Therefore, the legendary Taotie is probably a wolf, or a mythical beast that evolved from a wolf. Third, the Taotie became the main decoration of the Shang and Zhou Ding, which involves a series of issues. The Ding was an important tool for the founding of the Chinese nation in the Bronze Age. In the Zhou Dynasty, the "ding", which means "one word and nine tripods", was an artifact and ritual vessel symbolizing the supreme royal power, and it was also a sacrificial vessel for worshiping heaven and ancestors. The tripod is the national "totem pole" in the minds of the Chinese ancestors. Therefore, only totems belonging to the nation are qualified to ascend to such a lofty position and be engraved and cast on the tripod. This phenomenon reflects two problems: First, by the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the Chinese nation had a dragon totem, and the totem worship legacy of the ancestors of the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor may still exist. Because the Zhou Dynasty originated from Xirong, and most of Xirong were nomadic people who worshiped the wolf totem; secondly, the "dragon" at that time may not have been generally accepted and had not yet truly become the national totem of the Chinese nation. Otherwise, the tripod, which symbolizes royal power, will definitely have the dragon as its main decoration. Moreover, at that time, Emperor Zhou had not yet sat on the dragon throne. At that time, he still continued the nomadic tradition of Yan and Huang: sitting on the ground. The decorations on the Zhou tripod are mainly composed of Taotie patterns and cloud patterns, with the Taotie as the center and cloud patterns surrounding it. Obviously, the Taotie mythical 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 if it has a snake body or a dragon body, but if a dragon body is added behind Taotie’s head, it will not be far different from the later standard dragon. Therefore, I think there may be a transitional stage between the wolf totem and the dragon totem, the gluttonous totem. Taotie has both the character of a wolf and the ferocious appearance of a dragon later on. The true name and prototype of the mythical beast referred to by the animal mask pattern has long been buried in the ages that cannot be reproduced. Later generations gave it the name Taotie because of its ferocious, mysterious, and terrifying appearance, and some of them had human heads in their mouths. Taotie was originally used in "Zuo Zhuan" to describe those who were greedy for money and gluttony. Modern scholars have pointed out that naming the animal mask pattern as a man-eating Taotie is simply far-fetched and goes against the social and cultural conditions of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Because of its ferocious and terrifying appearance and its reputation as a glutton, it is almost impossible to find traces of this beast in the evolution of Chinese culture and art. In the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, animal patterns that had been popular for hundreds of years suddenly withdrew from the field of bronze decoration as the main pattern. However, several animal patterns that appeared on bronzes at the same time as the Taotie pattern, such as dragons, tigers, phoenixes, turtles, etc., appeared in large numbers in both official and private circles in the subsequent cultural evolution, becoming the most famous auspicious symbols in Chinese culture. There is an endless stream of themes in objects and art expressions. Especially dragons, in the Bronze Age, most of them had the same ferocious faces as the Taotie pattern. In terms of mystery, power and status, dragons were far inferior to gluttons in the Bronze Age. However, the dragon later ascended to the highest throne of Chinese cultural and political symbols, but "Taotie", the supreme figure of the Bronze Age, has been hard to find. Edit this paragraph Taotie pattern The Taotie pattern first appeared on jades from the Liangzhu Culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River 5,000 years ago. However, the Taotie pattern is more common on bronzes, especially tripods, as far back as the Erlitou Xia Culture. It appears on bronze vessels. However, the name "Taotie Pattern" did not exist in ancient times, but was named by people in the Song Dynasty when epigraphy was rising. The most perfect Taotie mask is 21.0 cm high and is now in the Seattle Library in the United States. This pattern usually takes the bridge of the nose as the midline and is arranged symmetrically on both sides. What exactly does the Taotie pattern refer to? There have been many debates and there is no conclusion yet. There were many types of Taotie patterns in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, some were like dragons, tigers, cows, sheep, deer, and mandrills; others were like birds, phoenixes, and people. Among the various patterns, the Taotie pattern is the most widely recognized as the tiger shape. Many scholars engaged in research on primitive culture and art believe that the Taotie pattern is an exaggeration and deformation of the tiger pattern. In ancient times, the tiger was also a very important divine beast that reached the sky. The shape of a wizard riding a tiger often appeared in the cultural relics of later generations. In the long history of Chinese culture, before the worship of "dragon and phoenix", there was a quite long stage of worship of dragon and tiger. The dragon-tiger fighting pattern was very popular from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty. Among them, the dragon-tiger fighting pattern unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb is the most exquisite and impressive. The ancients believed that the tiger was a yang animal. "The clouds follow the dragon and the wind follows the tiger." The fight between the dragon and the tiger represents the union of yin and yang. In the Han Dynasty, Canglong, White Tiger, Suzaku and Xuanwu represented the four astronomical officials of the East, West, South and North. At least, in the early days of Chinese history, the status of the tiger was not inferior to that of the dragon. However, the description of the magical power of tigers in ancient books is obviously difficult to compare with the prominent position of Taotie on bronze vessels. Legend has it that a dragon gave birth to nine sons, and its fifth son was called Taotie (tāo tiè). He was a ferocious and cruel monster in ancient times. He liked to eat people and had a large appetite. From this point, it is not difficult to see that Taotie is actually a concrete manifestation of the dark side of society at that time. People also resented the oppression of the slave society and used Taotie to express their feelings, and Taotie became more and more familiar to people. Comparing Taotie to a cannibalistic slave society is the most important meaning of ancient Taotie culture. Because Taotie is a ferocious monster with powerful power, it is used as a talisman by many ethnic minorities in the north. They carve its patterns on utensils and food dishes, thinking that in this way they can use the powerful power of the Taotie to prevent them from being swallowed by other ferocious beasts. Later, it gradually replaced its original cruel side of cannibalism and became a mythical beast. Now, the main meaning of Taotie is a symbol of food culture. The general characteristics of the Taotie pattern: The Taotie pattern has solemn, dignified and mysterious artistic characteristics. Taotie lines generally appear in the face of animals, with the characteristics of insects, fish, birds, beasts and other animals, and are composed of eye lines, nose lines, eyebrow lines, ear lines, mouth lines, and horn lines. The facial structure is relatively distinct, and it is precisely these features that lead people to a mysterious art world. The Taotie pattern of the Shang Dynasty is particularly effective in attracting people's attention. The Taotie pattern is fierce and solemn, with rigorous structure, exquisite production and mysterious realm. It is one of the best works of bronze decorative patterns and represents the highest level of bronze decorative patterns.