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The Vermilion Bird on the gates of a Han dynasty mausoleum complex. The Vermilion Bird is elegant and noble in both appearance and behavior, with feathers in many different hues of vermilion. It is very selective about what it eats and where it perches. [citation needed] Han dynasty decorative bronze cup in the shape of zhuque, from Tomb of Dou ...
The Azure Dragon of the East represents Wood, the Vermilion Bird of the South represents Fire, the White Tiger of the West represents Metal, and the Black Tortoise (or Black Warrior) of the North represents Water. In this system, the fifth principle Earth is represented by the Yellow Dragon of the Center. [8]
The Vermilion Bird of the South symbolically represents the cardinal direction south. It is red and associated with the wu xing "element" fire. The Jingwei bird represents determination and persistence, even in the face of seemingly over-whelming odds. Some birds may function as totems or representative symbols of clans or other social groups.
Phoenix depicted at the Longshan temple, Taiwan. The Four Holy Beasts differs from Four Symbols in that Qilin replaces the White Tiger.The Four Symbols are the Azure Dragon (青龍) in the East, White Tiger (白虎) in the West, Vermilion Bird (朱雀) in the South, and the Black Tortoise (玄武) in the North.
Its name is written with the same Chinese characters as the mythological bird. Phoenix talons (鳳爪; 凤爪) is a Chinese term for chicken claws in any Chinese dish cooked with them. The Vermilion Bird, (Suzaku in Japanese) one of the Four Symbols of Chinese myth, sometimes equated with the fenghuang. [14]
Zhenniao, a legendary bird with poisonous feathers. Zhulong (mythology), a giant red solar dragon and god. Zhuque, a Vermilion Bird, one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. Zouyu a precious beast as big as a tiger, with five colors and a tail longer than its body known for travelling 1000 li per day [8]
In Han China's Five Elements cosmology (cf. Chinese mythology), one of the four symbols of the four directions is a bird called Vermilion Bird, which represents the direction of south. The color red (particularly as exemplified by cinnabar/vermilion) was also symbolically associated with summer, fire, a certain note on the musical scale, a ...
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