Bai Ze lives on Kunlun Mountain, often depicted as a giant lion, with one or two horns on his head (or even in some versions depicting Bai Ze having more horns), in addition to two the main eye also has secondary eyes located along the sides of the body. It is a cow-shaped summoned beast or a giant lion with 9 eyes and six horns, flanked by 3 and 2 on each side, with a human-like face. The whole person is as white as snow, can speak human language, understand the emotions of everything in the world. It has very little contact with others unless a saint is then dominating the world.
It is also often described as having a lion's body and eight eyes, and a head with one or more horns. However, there are various records of the number of sub-eyes of Bai Ze, and sometimes there is only one secondary eye in the middle of the forehead or a summoned beast with a head like a Qilin or a dragon, and beast's body. It could be a beast or a spirit beast with three eyes and two horns on its head, three eyes on one side of the body (not clear the other side), four horns on its back, hoof-shaped legs.
Bai Ze is a symbol of ancient Chinese mythology, also has a very high place in Chinese mythology, taller than dragons and phoenixes. It is a very fortunate and good animal, a auspicious animal. Bai Ze knows the names, appearance and exorcisms of all ghosts and monsters in the world, so it has been worshiped as a god and exorcism very early.
"Bai Ze Tu"
Legend has it that after the Emperor Huang calmed the world, he came to the coast of the East China Sea while visiting various parts of China. At that time, Huangdi met Bai Ze, and Bai Ze told Huangdi about 11,520 kinds of monsters and ghosts. Emperor Huang ordered his retainers to paint the monsters and ghosts described by "Bai Ze" into pictures one by one to show the people of the country. In the Middle Ages, the respect for Bai Ze was even more solemn. He knows the names, appearances, and exorcism of all ghosts in the world, so he has been worshipped as a god and auspicious for exorcising ghosts from very early on. At that time, the book "Bai Ze Tu" (also known as "Bai Ze Jing Wei Tu") was very popular, reaching the level of almost one a copy. The book contains the names, appearances, and methods of exorcism of various gods and monsters, as well as pictures of gods and monsters. Once people encounter monsters, they will search for them according to the picture.
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