The Study On The Origin Of The Magical Bird Image In Classic Of Mountains And Seas

Among the large number of alien gods recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas,there is a kind of magic bird,they may be able to run the natural changes,or they are the strange birds that mix themselves with inanimate objects,it is mainly manifested in three images,namely,"sun god bird","bird-like mountain god " and "The wind god named phoenix".These images reflect the early people’s understanding of the natural phenomena such as the operation of the sun and the rain or shine,reflecting the thinking and belief of the people at that time.In this paper,by analyzing a large number of archaeological excavations uncovered ancient cultural relics in the physical the birds images,and combined with related literature handed down from ancient times and the research results were analyzed,and thus to explore the image of the divine bird of origin.The sun god birds perhaps originated from hunting in the era of "raptor catch the sun"modelling and farming in the era of"the sun in the bird’s body"image,since then,the gradual change a series of and image of the divine bird of shanhaijing records are very similar,and in the warring states period to the early han development to the final form of the"bird in the sun".The"bird-like mountain god"can be divided into two categories:the combination of birds and dragons and the combination of birds and human.Among them,the combination of birds and dragons is the product of totem fusion.Meanwhile,cloud worship and image misreading are also the basis for the description of this bird.The combination of birds and human.is a kind of god image that the leader of the tribe of the late neolithic worshiped birds disguised as a bird,that is the ancestor god and the patron saint of these tribes,since then,the image stretches all the way,until the spring and autumn period and the warring states era,with the demise of the worship of the gods,changing attitudes of life and death,probably began to focus into the mortuary image system,became the undead,soul ascend to heaven,to drive the devil a symbol of a variety of ideas."The wind god named phoenix"is an important role in shanhaijing a book,has"independent singing and dancing","around god","colorful"and"carrying the moral","wearing a snake stamped on the snake"and other notable features.The habit of"singing and dancing independently”is largely believed by the ancients that"the phoenix inspires wings to fly can produce wind,and the song can produce wind in the sky",the origin is very ancient,and 8000 years ago the wuyang jia hu bird flute has a certain relationship;the identity of the"around god"is the embodiment of the worship concept of the ancestors,in turn,has experienced a series of changes,such as in the shang dynasty to emperor made at a lower level,symbol in the week as the mandate of heaven,an angel in the spring and autumn warring states period for the soul,and so on;the characteristics of"colorful"and"carrying the moral"are closely related to zhou’s culture of rites and music."colorful”embodies the values of zhou people"to determine the level with ornamentation",and"carrying the moral"is the expression of moral values in the spring and autumn and warring states period;the image of"wearing a snake foot on a snake"is closely connected with the funeral culture of chu people,presenting a distinct regional time feature.