![]() ![]() The phoenix, with its great beauty, creates intense excitement and deathless inspiration. It represents our capacity for vision, for collecting sensory information about our environment and the events unfolding within it. "In The Feng Shui Handbook, Master Lam Kam Chuen writes: A mythical bird that never dies, the phoenix flies far ahead to the front, always scanning the landscape and distant space. ![]() The whole of the creature symbolized the five cardinal Confucian virtues: "It's color delights the eye, its comb expresses righteousness, its tongue utters sincerity, its voice chants melody, its ear enjoys music, its heart conforms to regulations, its breast contains the treasures of literature and its talons are powerful against transgressor." (Schumacher, 2014) It's song is the harmony of the five musical notes. It's feathers blend the five colors: black, white, red, green and yellow. According to Chinese lore, t he Phoenix appears rarely and only to mark the beginning of a new era or to signal in the beginning of peaceful and prosperous times. The flight of the Phoenix represented the ability to leave the world and its problems behind and chart new paths to clear skies. The combination of the two aspects "Fèng Huáng" represents the complete Phoenix. The phoenix itself contains both a masculine form, known as "Fèng" and is the yang, solar, fire bird aspect to the feminine "Huáng" yin, lunar, aspect depicting beauty. Often paired with the Dragon, the yang aspect representing the Emperor, the Phoenix represented the yin, feminine aspect displayed by the Empress. In Ancient China folklore, the Phoenix was considered one of the four sacred creatures residing over China's destiny. While most people think of the Greek phoenix that rises from the ashes and is reborn, that is not our namesake phoenix. Chinese dragon Dragon Cafe Chinese mythology, dragon, legendary Creature, dragon png 362x794px 82.38KB Phoenix Bird Mythology, route, legendary Creature. ![]()
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