Many people have heard the saying "green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right". In fact, most of them come from the concept of Feng Shui. However, "green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right" in Feng Shui is not the origin of this concept. That is to say, in Feng Shui, the meaning of "green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right" is not the original meaning of "green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right".
So, what does the saying "green dragon on the left, white dragon on the right" mean?
Many people do not understand this concept, so it is easy to get it wrong, because most people often take it for granted that "left Qinglong, right white tiger" are Feng Shui acupuncture points, but they actually misunderstand this The true meaning of the concept.
Because the saying "green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right" actually comes from the concept of astronomy in ancient China, that is, astrology. In ancient times, the ancients were curious about unknown things and believed that things work. There is some unknown law controlling the stars behind them. Therefore, when observing the starry sky, the stars in the sky are artificially divided into many parts. This is what we often call the "Twenty-Eight Constellations", that is, according to the southeast The northwest direction is divided into four constellations, and the number of each constellation is seven, that is:
The starry sky in the east is the seven constellations of Qinglong: Jiao, Kang, Shi, Fang, Xin, Wei, and Ji.
The starry sky in the west is the seven constellations of the White Tiger: Kui, Lou, Wei, Ang, Bi, Xi, and Shen.
The starry sky in the south is the seven constellations of Suzaku: Well, Ghost, Willow, Star, Zhang, Yi, and Zhen.
The starry sky in the north is the seven constellations of Xuanwu: Dou, Ox, Female, Xu, Danger, Room, and Wall.
This is the origin of "Green Dragon on the left, White Tiger on the right", which is also the original prototype of the four beasts: Green Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku and Xuanwu. In other words, these four beasts are just the names used to represent stars in ancient astronomy. , but in order to be able to express it more vividly, the ancients used Duan Beast instead. It does not have some mysterious elements and colors as our later generations take it for granted. The same goes for "green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right".
Therefore, we, future generations, do not need to look at these names from a mythological perspective, let alone align them with the concepts of Feng Shui or numerology, because of the sayings "Green Dragon on the left, White Tiger on the right" , is just a symbol derived from the social culture at that time, and is a product of the specific social environment at that time. There is no need for too much interpretation, and there is not much room for development.
So, many people actually have a wrong understanding of "green dragon on the left, white tiger on the right".
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