There is a saying that there are nine-headed birds in the sky and Hubei guys in the ground. If you just look at this sentence and feel that it smells of geographical discrimination, it is actually unnecessary. The nine-headed bird is more like a totem for most Hubei people. If you have the opportunity to travel to Hubei, you will find how strong the feelings of Hubei people are for the nine-headed bird.
The names of local enterprises, villages and even some published publications are all nine-headed birds. In fact, it can be seen from here that the nine-headed bird is as important as the dragon and tiger in the hearts of Hubei people.
It is worth mentioning that in the 1990s, People's Daily once published a passage that the nine-headed bird was a creature used by Hubei people to laugh at themselves. Once this article was published, it was attacked by local enterprises. This enterprise with the trademark of the nine-headed bird says that the nine-headed bird is a god bird in Chu culture.
The prototype of the nine-headed bird actually comes from the nine phoenixes in Shan Hai Jing, which was originally compiled by Chu people according to legends, so there are also reasons why the above-mentioned enterprises criticized People's Daily.
The Nine Phoenix in The Classic of Mountains and Seas is called God, which shows that Chu people admire it. If we push the history forward, we can know that the ancestors of Chu people are Dongyi people, and Dongyi people have a characteristic of worshipping birds. Nine is the supreme existence in any period or region in ancient times. For example, the statue of Kyushu or the Ninth Five-Year Plan is its deepest and simplest representative. Phoenix is the king of birds, so Jiu Feng combined the two.