{"id":13233,"date":"2019-11-22T05:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-17-tianlu-and-bixie-tian-lu-yu-pi-xie\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T05:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T05:30:04","slug":"chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-17-tianlu-and-bixie-tian-lu-yu-pi-xie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-17-tianlu-and-bixie-tian-lu-yu-pi-xie\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Myth Figures \u4e2d\u56fd\u795e\u8bdd\u4eba\u7269 17 Tianlu and Bixie \u5929\u7984\u4e0e\u8f9f\u90aa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Tianlu (heavenly emolument) and Bixie (evil  dispeller) are two Chinese mythological animals that herald in good  fortune and keep evil at bay. Both look like a lion except for their  wings&#8211;the one with only one horn on his head is tianlu and the one with  two horns is Bixie. During the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. -220 A.D.), the  images of both animals were for ornamentation purposes. Sculptures of  them were placed in front of tombs to suggest the dignity and power and  authority the deceased enjoyed in their lifetime. As symbols of bravery  and immunity to evil, the two animals are meant for those aspiring to  ascend to heaven to ride on. Images of tianlu and Bixie were inscribed,  embroidered or carved on fabrics, army banners, bands and hooks, or the  handles of seals and bells in ancient times.<\/p>\n<p>Tianlu and Bixie are cast in a pair of gigantic sculptures that stand  along with stone pillars on the holy way that leads to tomb in the  eastern suburbs of Nanjing.Buried in the tomb are the remains og  XiaoHong,the younger brother of Emperor Wudi of the Liang dynasty.The  sculpture of Bixie,3.8 metres tall,3.8 metres long and 1.55 metres  wide,has a plump body and thick and short neck,its chest puffing and its  belly protruding,and walking in giant strides with its tongue hanging  out of its wide open mouth.This is by far the best-preserved large stone  sculpture of Bixie.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2617392318\"><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>Tianlu (heavenly emolument) and Bixie (evil  dispeller) are two Chinese mythological animals that herald in good  fortune and keep evil at bay. Both look like a lion except for their  wings&#8211;the one with only one horn on his head is tianlu and the one with  two horns is Bixie. During the Han Dynasty (206 B.C. -220 A.D.), the  images of both animals were for ornamentation purposes. Sculptures of  them were placed in front of tombs to suggest the dignity and power and  authority the deceased enjoyed in their lifetime. As symbols of bravery  and immunity to evil, the two animals are meant for those aspiring to  ascend to heaven to ride on. Images of tianlu and Bixie were inscribed,  embroidered or carved on fabrics, army banners, bands and hooks, or the  handles of seals and bells in ancient times.<\/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":[130],"class_list":["post-13233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-myth-figures"],"views":395,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}