Cat, English Proverb

A cat has nine lives.

- English Proverb

Vermilion Bird (朱雀)

Vermilion Bird (朱雀)

Alternative Names (異名):
朱雀, 주작, Zhū Què, Vermilion Bird, スザク(Japanese), Chu Tước(Vietnamese)

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The Vermilion Bird (Chinese: 朱雀; pinyin: Zhū Què) is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations. According to Wu Xing, the Taoist five-elemental system, it represents the fire-elemental, the direction of south, and the season summer correspondingly. Thus it is sometimes called the Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què). It is often mistaken for Fenghuang, but they are two different creatures. Fenghuang is the king of birds, while the Vermilion Bird is a mythological spirit creature of the Chinese constellations.

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The Seven Mansions of the Vermilion Bird

Like the other Four Symbols, the Vermilion Bird corresponds to seven "mansions", or positions, of the moon.

Well (Chinese: 井; pinyin: Jǐng)
Ghost (Chinese: 鬼; pinyin: Guǐ)
Willow (Chinese: 柳; pinyin: Liǔ)
Star (Chinese: 星; pinyin: Xīng)
Extended Net (Chinese: 張; pinyin: Zhāng)
Wings (Chinese: 翼; pinyin: Yì)
Chariot (Chinese: 軫; pinyin: Zhěn)

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Nature of The Vermilion Bird

The Vermilion Bird is an elegant and noble bird in both appearance and behavior, it is very selective in what it eats and where it perches, with its feathers in many different hues of reddish orange.

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Vermilion Bird in different languages

The Chinese constellations were not only used by Chinese cartographers, they were also used by Korean and Japanese cartographers as well.

Standard Mandarin: Zhū Què / 朱雀
Japanese: Suzaku / スザク
Korean: Ju-jak / 주작
Vietnam by Sino-Vietnamese: Chu Tước (Pronounced by "Tchu Tughk")

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion_Bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mythology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese_mythology

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Care killed the cat.

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Even the smallest people in the world can change the course of the future.

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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

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Beuty, Zhuangzi

毛嬙、麗姬，人之所美也，魚見之深入，鳥見之高飛，麋鹿見之決驟。

- 莊子, 齊物論

Mao Qiang(毛嬙) and Li Ji(麗嬉) were accounted by men to be most beautiful, but when fishes saw them, they dived deep in the water from them; when birds, they flew from them aloft; and when deer saw them, they separated and fled away.

- Zhuangzi (莊子), The Adjustment of Controversies (齊物論)

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http://ctext.org/zhuangzi/adjustment-of-controversies