from the very beginning, the mythical animal appeared as a brave and unyielding image. According to the Historical Records, when the emperor fought against Emperor Yan, he once drove the animal army-"Teach bears, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons, dragons. Tiger, to fight with Emperor Yan in the wild of Hanquan. " At this time, the raccoon took part in the battle as the main force. According to experts' research, the raccoon is a giant panda and the raccoon is a red panda. They belong to the bear family like the bear. It is no wonder that the Yellow Emperor "You Xiong Shi" really has bears.

However, the legends later did not recognize the experts' opinions. People believed that the brave and brave warrior was named as a "Tianlu beast" by the Yellow Emperor because of his outstanding achievements in this battle, and he became a priest and became a god beast from then on. Like Kirin, he also has the difference between men and women, men are jealous and women are jealous. Different from Kirin, this beast has one horn and two horns, and the number of horns gives them another distinction. One horn is called Tianlu, and the other two horns are called evil spirits.

In fact, Tianlu and exorcism had nothing to do with the brave and brave at the earliest time. They were originally a kind of god beast. According to the biography of the Western Regions in Hanshu, "Wuge Mountain was separated from the state-owned peach plucking, lion peeing and cow peeing". Meng Kang, an expert in the Three Kingdoms period, noted: "Peach blossoms, a day of Fu Ba, like the tail of a deer, one-horned deer is called Tianlu, and two-horned deer is called evil spirits." Obviously, Tianlu is Tianlu. From his short words, we can infer that the earliest image of the animal is a deer like Kirin, but this deer has a longer tail. The earliest function of this kind of god beast is to carry people to heaven after death, so it is often placed in graves, and in order to facilitate soaring, some Tianlu carved wings.

But it's just that the image of the deer is inevitably a little thinner. When these two mythical animals are combined with the brave and brave, the images of the two beasts suddenly change, instead of being thin deer, they immediately become resolute and powerful. In the earliest image, people did not carve the brave and brave into a bear, but a tiger. This is not because I like tigers so much, but because tigers have the function of ward off evil spirits.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas says: "In the sea, there is a mountain with a new moon, on which there is a big peach tree, which bends for three thousand miles, and its branches are called the Ghost Gate in the northeast, where all ghosts go in and out. There are two gods in the world, one is shentu, the other is Yu Lei, and the Lord reads and leads all ghosts. Evil spirits hold reeds and eat tigers. "

This is a well-known story, that is to say, there is a big peach tree in Dushuo Mountain, and there is a ghost gate under the tree, so ghosts go out for vacation. One of the doormen is called Shentu and the other is called Yu Lei. They both have a pet tiger and catch those disobedient ghosts to feed them.

This tiger is so powerful that people in the pre-Qin period thought that a monster named Qiong Qi loved to eat the brains of the dead, and only tigers and cypresses could scare them away (you know why pines and cypresses were planted in the grave, just to protect the brains of the dead). It is not surprising that as a tomb animal, the animal has grown into a tiger.

However, after the Eastern Han Dynasty, with the introduction of Buddhism, the lion's reputation as a god beast gradually overshadowed that of the tiger, so the animal began to have the image of a lion, and the way of strutting up to the sky and leaping forward gradually became fixed.

But it's not enough to drive a monster out of the tomb to make it popular. People prefer another function: a miser who can't get out. The reason why the brave has this function is estimated to be related to his original name "Tianlu". Lu is wealth, and with wealth in his name, it is taken for granted that he should keep his wealth, so the emperors put him in the vault to guard his treasure, and the people competed for it. He immediately became the favorite object of thousands of families, and made up a folklore for him, saying that he urinated anywhere in the sky, which angered the jade emperor and sealed his anus. From then on, he became a keeper who could only get in and out.

It's so popular that when the time came to the Ming Dynasty, people began to say that it was also one of the nine sons of the dragon, so the head of the animal became a dragon head.