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The king of beasts, in addition to avoid disaster - tiger myth and legend

In ancient time, there is a lion in the animal sign, noThe tiger.Because the lion is too cruel, reputation, head of animal sign of the jade emperor wanted to put the lion from the team, but also must fill tube into a town forest animals.At this time, the jade emperor tiger fighters thought of before the house.

Tiangong tiger guards of the former is a kind of unknown animal on the earth.It learned from cat chef, flapping, to bite, cut, and jump, taken after the legendary weapons of China, become the warriors in the mountains.Who fight with it, the undead or wounded.From then on, the tiger, xiong mountain forest.Later, the jade emperor heard the tiger fierce invincible, the tiger on the monkey god.After the tiger to the heavenly palace, with the defenders of the jade emperor, win.From then on, the tiger became tiangong temple guard before.

But soon after, the ground of the animals and birds saw that there was no town tube, started to run amok, caused a disaster to human.It shocked the land god, the land god hurriedly reported to heaven, the jade emperor, please send the most almighty curb beasts.From heaven the jade emperor sent a tiger, the tiger asked every victory, gave him a work.The jade emperor for world peace, and of course readily promised the tiger's requirements.

To the earth, the tiger learned lions, bears, horses was the best of three animals.It specifically to challenge the three kinds of animals.With tiger intrepid and superb skills, victories over the lions, bears, horses.Other evil beast coming and flee, hide into the uninhabited forest wilderness.The world cheers and moving, thank liledagong tiger is in the world.

Return to heaven, the jade emperor for tiger wins three, in its forehead to carve the three horizontal lines.

Later, and disturbed by the east sea turtles strange world, the earth an ocean, evil human lieutenants.The tiger came to earth again, bite dead turtle.The jade emperor a happy, and give the tiger record a home, in the forehead of three horizontal and one vertical.So, a marked "king" word in the tiger forehead.From then on, the tiger is the king of beasts, main beasts.Today, the tiger forehead is visible to a jovian "king" word.

In the lion's notoriety came after the tiangong, the jade emperor decided to remove the lion's animal sign title, covering the beastmaster tiger.From then on, the tiger become mutually, the lion was exiled to the distant to the south.The tiger, of course, also from the guard down to the earth before the temple of the jade emperor, keep lower peace forever.Today, there are roller, tiger, tiger carving and other things in addition to the disaster from the town of evil.In the countryside, many people also like to wear shoes, wear tiger-head shoes.For what, not just figure a lucky ward off evil spirits, peace and prosperity for the coming year.

Tiger's character intrepid and mighty, cruel is formidable, to dare not to close, as in front of the "emperor" or authority.

In officialdom or folk and popular reflect the mentality of the proverb: "accompany you like with the tiger", "tiger door XiaGuan difficult".In people's mind, the tiger is a symbol of authority and power, mannerisms school juniors inviolable king bearing, is not to offend, also is not to be taunted.

In addition, the tiger is the king, the king of beasts, and of mountains, people love and fear tiger tiger.So people will also be looked for fierce, cruel animal, the legend of folk there are quite a few dozen tiger, appeared a lot of tiger hunting, dozen tiger, tiger, Blackpool and strong men, from the han dynasty shoot tigers into stone li while jettisoning to black turning wind li kui to save the mother killed in jingyang hill, wu3 song dozen tiger tiger...And so on.