{"id":6561,"date":"2019-11-20T23:19:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T23:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=6561"},"modified":"2019-11-20T23:19:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T23:19:34","slug":"pixiu-coming-with-fortune-pi-xiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/pixiu-coming-with-fortune-pi-xiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixiu, Coming with Fortune \u8c94\u8c85"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Pixiu (also called Tianlu or Bixie) is one of the  five auspicious animals of traditional Chinese culture (the other four  are the dragon, phoenix, turtle and kylin). The Chinese people call it  &ldquo;fortune beast.&rdquo; This lion-looking beast has the head of dragon, the  body of a horse and the legs of a kylin and is able to fly. The Pixiu is  both ferocious and powerful so it works as a security guard of Heaven,  resisting demons and ghosts. Just like the dragon and the kylin, the  Pixiu brings happiness good luck for people and has an exorcising  function. What is different from the kylin is that the Pixiu is a  ferocious animal and has strong will in protecting its master. That is  the very reason why many Chinese people wear jade Pixius.<\/p>\n<p>The Pixiu has 26 figures and 49 incarnations. As Chinese mythology  says, the Pixiu is the Dragon King&rsquo;s ninth son. Gold, silver, jewels and  all other treasures are the Pixiu&rsquo;s staple food. That gives the Pixiu a  noble temperament which helped it win the love of the Jade Emperor and  the Dragon King. One day, maybe because it had eaten too much, it  relieves its bowels in the Jade Emperor&rsquo;s palace. The angry Emperor beat  it and removed its anus. When news spread among the Chinese people,  they regarded the Pixiu as an auspicious animal that can help in making  fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>  <\/p>\n<p>Fengshui experts say that the Pixiu can protect  homes, exorcise devils and raise fortune and power for the master. There  is a saying that goes: &ldquo;touch a Pixiu once and you will get a good  luck, twice you and will get money and treasure, and the on third time  you will get power and position.&rdquo;<br \/>  Usually there are three materials used in Pixiu sculpting: copper, wood  and jade. Copper is a relatively cheap medal and looks like gold after  polishing. Wood was used traditionally in sculpturing Pixiu figures on  the joist of a big house to keep out bad luck. In recent years, various  kinds of jade have been used in Pixiu sculpturing.<\/p>\n<p>No matter from what material the Pixiu is made, it has almost the  same power in raising fortunes. But traditionally, according to Fengshui  experts, copper Pixius placed in the eight directions have the  strongest power. One peculiarity of the Pixiu is that if the master has  violated the law, it won&rsquo;t work for him anymore.<\/p>\n<p>There are some taboos in positioning Pixius indoors. First, don&rsquo;t put  its head towards the front door, because the front door is the precinct  of another god. Second, don&rsquo;t put it towards mirrors, because the light  from the mirrors will make the Pixiu feel nervous. Third, don&rsquo;t put it  against your bed, because that is believed to do harm to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>  <span>In Chinese mythology, the Dragon King has nine children:  Qiuniu, Yazi, Chaofeng, Pulao, Suanni, Bixi, Bi&rsquo;an, Fuxi and Pixiu.  Dragons are believed to have supernatural power in changing weather and  ruling the oceans and that is very naturally that its sons are all  powerful. In Chinese people&rsquo;s minds, dragons are a symbol of power and  dignity, and that is also one reason why the Chinese call themselves  &ldquo;descendants of the dragon.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-242033359\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pixiu (also called Tianlu or Bixie) is one of the  five auspicious animals of traditional Chinese culture (the other four  are the dragon, phoenix, turtle and kylin). The Chinese people call it  &ldquo;fortune beast.&rdquo; This lion-looking beast has the head of dragon, the  body of a horse and the legs of a kylin and is able to fly. The Pixiu is  both ferocious and powerful so it works as a security guard of Heaven,  resisting demons and ghosts. Just like the dragon and the kylin, the  Pixiu brings happiness good luck for people and has an exorcising  function. What is different from the kylin is that the Pixiu is a  ferocious animal and has strong will in protecting its master. That is  the very reason why many Chinese people wear jade Pixius.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2837],"tags":[44,133,118,135],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-culture","tag-chinese-mythology","tag-culture","tag-traditional-chinese"],"views":219,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}