Careful visitors will find that there is a big white marble banner under the eaves of the square, with no words on it and a figure engraved impressively. The figure is very strange, the outline is a bit like a bird, at the same time, it is like a hollow oblique mirror, and it is like a strange fish with huge fins on its tail. What is this picture? What does this mean?
In fact, this figure is nothing more than the mountain emblem of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue-Suzaku.
Suzaku, also known as Suzaku, as the composition object of Nanyue Mountain emblem, has been secretly circulated for thousands of years and contains profound cultural implications.
Suzaku is a fictional thing imagined by ancient ancestors by observing astronomical phenomena. The ancestors determined the farming season by observing the astronomical phenomena. There are 28 galaxies in the sky, with seven nights as one side and four directions in the southeast and northwest. Each galaxy forms a pattern, and the seven nights in the south just form the shape of a bird. The other three parties form the shape of East Qinglong, West Baihu and North Xuanwu. Because the weather in the south is hot and the sun is like fire, it is represented by red, red and vermilion, so it is named Zhu Bird.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Seven Hostels in the South were always called Zhuniao, which has been designated as the symbol of the South. Therefore, Nanyue and Zhuniao are mountain emblems, among which Tianzhu in Anhui is Nanyue. Around the Han Dynasty, Wei and Jin Dynasties, Taoism linked the five parties, east, west, north and south, with the Five Mountains, and painted a true picture of the Five Mountains. Since then, Suzaku has become the recognized emblem of Nanyue Mountain.
▲ The true body of the Five Mountains, a Taoist symbol, is said to have been passed down by the Emperor Daowang, and it has the effect of avoiding disasters and bringing happiness.
The interpretation of "The True Map of Five Mountains" in the Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is a mountain map drawn by imitating the mountain situation, topography and trend of a certain mountain range. Among the people, there is also a legend about the emblem of Nanyue Mountain:
According to legend, when Shennong tasted a hundred herbs in ancient times, he met a bird, covered in scarlet blood, with a black mouth and a sacred grass in his mouth. Shennong was afraid that the fairy bird would fly away, so he pulled out the treasure whip and tried his best to photograph it. After landing, turn to Mount Hengshan in Nanyue. The mountain has a head and a tail, feet and wings, and the two wings fluttered on the ground like a big bird.
In fact, the circumference of Mount Heng is more than 800 miles, just like a giant bird soaring. The well-known Wei Yuan's "Ode to Heng Yue" says: "Mount Hengshan walks, Mount Daisits, Mount Huashan stands, and Mount Songshan lies. Only Nanyue flies alone, and Zhu birds spread their wings and hang clouds." It is not only a description of the "flying alone" form of nature, but also another ingenious interpretation of the emblem of Nanyue Mountain.