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1、Phoenix and its totem in Chinese culturePhoenix and its totem in Chinese culturePhoenix is a kind of virtual creature which represents fortune and happiness inChinese culture.Take a Chinese idiom asan example:”Long Feng Cheng Xiang”can be translated into“dragon and phoenix show good luck.”It is used
2、 to describe thelove and a perfect marriage of a couple.I am going to introduce it in three main parts.Its image and connotationThere is an archaism describing it”The phoenixs head looks like chicken.Itsmouth is just as a parrot.It has a neck of a peacock and a body of a mandarin duck.When it stretc
3、hes its wings.You may feel that it is the roc.Cranes feet are the sameas its.Its crest shows a shape of jade.”According to this,we can get the conclusionthat the phoenixs image i s a combination of many animals.So,what is the commonplaces this different parts have?The vital point is peace and love.I
4、f you wanna to find a symbol instead of thepoint.There is no doubt that phoenix is the best choice.Firstly,phoenix itself is acombination of many creatures.Chicken,swallow,crane,swan,hawk,ostrich andmany other kinds of birds are included.Except for the bird,terrestrial organism andvirtual creatures
5、such as dragon and kylin are included in it.Secondly,the main partof the phoenix is bird.It has the closest relationship with plants.Thirdly,we Chinesepeople divide the power that exits in the two opposite sides into”Yin Yang”.Initially,phoenix is composed by two parts.One is“Feng”.It represents“yan
6、g”.Theother is“Huang”.It is a kind of female creature.As a result,we divide it as“Yin”.Come from real significance say,it is a imagery of philosophy category.Fourthly,theappearance of phoenix is a result of respecting,understanding towards all the lives onearth.The theory of Taoist emphasis the peac
7、eful coexistence with others.Since theday phoenix was born.We have pined many hopes on it.Such as scarify for others.That fits well with the Confucians thought.Phoenix comes from our life.But it canstand aloof from this moral life.Zen Buddhism praise it a lot.Analysis of the godhead implication of p
8、hoenixPhoenix is deity in some way.We ancient Chinese people respected it as ourtotem.Several divinities can be seen on it.There is ten of them.1.facing the sun2.flying freely in the sky3.Phoenix Nirvana,ashes reborn4.Noble moral5.Good fortune6.The symbol of pure love7.Being a king and the invincibl
9、e power8.Beauty9.Responsibility10.Scarifying for otherThis things Ive mention above are just a small part of phoenix culture.However,I hope that can give you a preliminary understanding of it.注释:龙凤呈祥,一般指吉祥之事 原话为:“首似锦鸡,嘴似鹦鹉,脖似孔雀,身似鸳鸯,翅似大鹏,足似仙鹤,毛似孔雀,冠似如意。”译为“和美”道教:“天道自然之和”儒家;“人伦道德之和”佛家:“心性觉悟之和”参考书目:中国凤凰文化的权威解读,庞进著。中国和平出版社 2006 年出版。中国凤凰造型,徐华铛著。中国林业出版社 2010 年出版。中国民间画诀,王树村。北京工艺美术出版社 2003 年出版。