still remember that there is a plot in the drama version of "Sansheng III Shili Peach Blossom": Emperor Donghua erased his name on the Sansheng Stone and will not be married to anyone. Bai Fengjiu cut off one of his nine fox tails , I used obsessive painting to make a magic weapon to go to the Sanshengshi to re-engrave their names...
△ Screenshot of "Sansheng Sanshi Shili Peach Blossom" / Youku
are the main characters in the book "Sansheng Sanshi". The final result is bound to make Emperor Donghua and the red nine-tailed fox Bai Fengjiu finally get married.
If we look at the real Chinese history and the fairy pedigree (how do I think it is weird to use the word "real" here), the relationship between the Emperor Donghua and the nine-tailed fox is at least four corners.
Come on, eat melon~
Donghua Dijun was born because of this woman?
Queen Mother of the West?
Queen Mother of the West, also known as the "Queen Mother Empress" in later generations, is a very, very old god. She has been mentioned in the "Shan Hai Jing", and 's "god creation" process for her was completed at the latest during the Warring States period. Up . Don't underestimate the time of Warring States, because most of the members of the fairy system in our country are actually quite "young" (we will mention this later).
Han Dynasty is the heyday of the belief of Queen Mother of the West . What is heyday? It is that she hardly "divides accounts" with other gods, and has been in a "dominant" position for a long time. This is particularly evident on the stone portraits of the Han Dynasty. Some Western Sinologists believe that Queen Mother of the West is China’s earliest and most noble god .
△ Xinmang-Early Eastern Han Dynasty Haotan Mural Tomb
, Dingbian, Shaanxi, according to the Chinese habit of making everything together, the "Mother of the West" is really a bit lonely, so people created a "Duke of East" to accompany her.
Although many materials show that the "East Prince" can also be verified from many early data, and the "West Queen" may be a late pairing , Mr. Wu Hong thinks it was about the second century. However, a pair of "Confucius Clothes Mirror" was unearthed from the Tomb of Haiyunhou a while ago. There are not only "Fu on the Clothes Mirror" but also a pair of men and women. Experts infer that this is the earliest known pair of "Queen of the West" and "Duke of the East". The graphic data appeared (there were text and images all at once, great).
△ Haiyunhou Tomb / Weibo
But these have not changed. Among the Han tombs, that is, the folks, the "lone pet" of the Queen Mother of the West has continued for a long time. After all, it has not been so early in the stone portrait. The evidence of this, and the existence of stone portraits is still considerable.
can also be seen from another angle, the Eastern Prince is the "little meat" rationed to the Western Queen, because the image of the Eastern Prince is configured in the format of the Western Queen. Previously in "I just wanted to ask you quietly, was it sunny or rainy yesterday? The "Sheng", the Queen of the West introduced in the "Ren Day Special", is an iconic feature, and scholars have also verified that "Sheng" is a component of the loom, with strong female attributes, but the Eastern Prince also wears "Sheng" Image. In this regard, Mr. Wu Hong directly stated that "Duke of the East is a mirror image of Queen Mother of the West" .
△ Eastern Han Dynasty Yinan Stone Relief
△ Jin Sheng
In the Shu Han period, the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East became the guides for the people after their lives, so Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in his Pillow Book for him The two wrote the life experience (now you know why the second is called "XXXX Pillow Book"), saying that they are the children of Yuanshi Tianzun and Taiyuan Mother, who are responsible for issuing passes to those who have ascended to immortals. Therefore, some people think that they were married like Fuxi and Nuwa, and there are also textual researches that their prototypes are related to Fuxi and Nuwa.
But Ge Hong's greater role is to introduce these two into the Taoist fairy system . Taoism has many schools, among which Quanzhen Sect is taught by Emperor DonghuaMain .
In fact, the source of Emperor Donghua is very complicated. It can be said that some of the immortals we currently recognize are branched out of several from one source, and some are originally unrelated and become one. The Emperor Donghua is the latter. His at least contains legends such as Wang Xuanfu, Donghai Xiaotong, etc., and it was combined with the "East Prince" in the Song Dynasty to form a . During the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Song Defang promoted the status of Emperor Donghua to the highest level in "Fu of the Ancestors of the Quanzhen" and was named the ancestor of Quanzhen Sect.
△ Yongle Palace Mural Donghua Dijun
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The figure of the nine-tailed fox is still related to her?
Queen Mother of the West? Why is it her again!
We often encounter the Han portrait stone carrying the "Queen of the West". It feels like there are everything on it, but it is not clear. In fact, has a relatively fixed routine in a certain period of time and in a specific area, which is also convenient for us to distinguish who they are. After all, the characters on the stone portraits do not have name tags. For example, "Queen of the West" is a "gang pairing". We already know the "pairing". Later, there will be an "East Prince" to accompany her, and there will be nine-tailed foxes in the "gang".
Explanation: There are differences in the "West Queen Mother Image System" in different regions and different periods, and there are also differences between cases. What this article describes is only a typical image, not an inevitable image.
The immortals need to be arranged, and the team of the "Queen of the West" is probably a zoo!
△ The World of the Queen Mother of the West / Eastern Han Dynasty portrait stone
The most common medicinal rabbits and toads around her, this seems to be what we should have in the moon palace in our impression.
I don’t know if you still remember that the undead medicine stolen by Chang'e was the that was kept by Queen Mother of the West, and it was this medicine that the rabbit pounded. In the story of Chang'e, she ascended into the moon and became a "moon spirit", that is, toad (sorry, I shouldn't ruin the story of the beauty). And the moon is cloudy, sunny, round and round, and the meaning of existence is also eternal life.
△ The rabbit and the Queen Mother of the West / Eastern Han Dynasty portrait stone
△ The Queen Mother of the West holding the immortal drug
In addition to the team of the Queen Mother of the West, there are three-legged black and nine-tailed fox , these two also appeared in the "Shan Hai Jing".
The three-legged Wu was also often regarded as the guide of the soul in the Han Dynasty. The silk paintings of Mawangdui are not clearly visible, but the image of the three-legged Wu is very prominent. It is recorded as "Three Blue Birds" in the "Shan Hai Jing", which is the last sentence mentioned in Li Shangyin's "Untitled, Difficult to Say When Meeting Each Other", "There is no way to go to Pengshan, and the blue birds are diligent to explore" The blue bird messenger of.
△ The nine-tailed fox and the three-legged black-tailed fox/Eastern Han Dynasty portrait stone
The nine-tailed fox is also recorded in the "Shanhaijing", and the "Three Lives III" about the nine-tailed fox living in "Qingqiu" originated from this. Early scholars of believed that the appearance of the nine-tailed fox was a sign of auspiciousness and foretelling the kindness of the Queen Mother of the West, but Li Rong believed that the combination of funeral purposes should have the meaning of "not forgetting the hometown" and "returning to the hometown". The "nine tails" also mean the mating of birds and beasts, which is related to the reproduction of descendants .
Anyway, in addition to immortality, the descendants are prosperous, and the ancient world is so hopeful. However, we also know from this that in the image system of the Queen Mother of the West, the Queen Mother of the West is the main god, and the Nine-Tailed Fox is also a god of .
Of course, the "Queen of the West" itself also has some unique landmarks. In addition to the aforementioned "victory", some regions will also hold the "纴" with and a dragon and tiger seat under her.
△ The Dragon and Tiger Seat of Queen West and the Nine-Tailed Fox (upper right corner)
△ Dai "sheng" holds the "纴" Queen Mother of the West
"纴" is an image composed of two opposite inverted triangles, which is a tool for winding silk thread.Commonly known as winding board. However, whether it can really be named "纴" is still a bit disagreeable. Scholars think it is "䇘", but the use of winding boards is not very controversial.
These textile-related tools are not only used to express her female identity and the prominent position of textiles in ancient times, but also to imply that "Queen of the West" is a soaring god who leads the way. In the eyes of ancient Chinese people, silk thread contained the mystery of the universe , which was published in "Yesterday!" The earliest silk in China, more than 5,000 years ago, was in Henan! "It was also mentioned that people also worship silkworms, so it means life and death are irreplaceable, and the descendants are endless.
But since the "West Queen" had the "East Prince", her status began to decline. After all, she used to stand alone in C position, but now she can only sit in the right door. At the same time, Queen Mother of the West began not to wear "Victory", and her image became secular and immortal, closer to the immortal appearance that we later created based on reality.
For example, they often have the "cloud shoulders" in the cognition of later generations, like a shawl. Scholars believe that the mortals in the portrait at that time did not have this accessory, so it should be a symbol of deified by .
△ Mural on the 5th Tomb of Dingjiazha, Jiuquan (Sixteen Kingdoms)
