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Following 🐉龍的模樣: AI來告訴你 This is how a Chinese Dragon looks like
If the dragon was the chief of scaly creatures, the phoenix (鳳凰, fenghuang; actually these two creatures are different, from east and west and all that, but since sharing some common traits like being bird-like, sometimes the concepts got confused... it's the same with Dragon) was its feathered counterpart. The Book of Rites of the Elder Dai names it the leader of all 360 feathered creatures, and over time the two became a pair: the dragon for the emperor, the phoenix for the empress, and together a symbol of harmony still seen at Chinese weddings today.
The Shuowen Jiezi gives the phoenix its own composite portrait: the front of a wild goose, the hindquarters of a qilin, the neck of a snake, the tail of a fish, the forehead of a stork, dragon-like patterns, a tiger's back, a swallow's chin, a rooster's beak, and all five colors. I turned this into a tall, rooster-like bird with a fin-shaped tail, standing on red sandstone cliffs above a rust-colored river, then let it sing and dance in a short clip, just as the Classic of Mountains and Seas says it does.
I used Claude to produce the prompts, then asked Gemini to generate the image (with Nano Banana) and the short video (with Omni). Wow! They are really powerful! I think I kinda getting hooked to produced ancient divine creatures by AI from the descriptions of the really ancient books. Btw, remind you that do turn on the voice to hear the Fenghuang sing! (like a flute?🙂)
Hello CN區朋友們!
打從這一篇 🐉龍的模樣: AI來告訴你 This is how a Chinese Dragon looks like 開始用AI來玩上古神獸/聖獸之後,我開始有點上癮了!
畢竟,龍是很常見的,我只是把它做的比較逼真而已,但如果這可行,那還很多上古典籍裡頭紀載的奇幻神獸可以來試試吧?🤔🤔
於是我就繼續動手了!請AI幫我找出幾個候選,也試著開始產製一些...不過,似乎有詳細描述的神獸沒那麼多啊!這倒是麻煩,自己幻想就沒意思了...
不過,還是有點成果。今天就先把龍的好夥伴,鳳,其實是鳳凰,給拉出來。
雖說龍鳳龍鳳,但龍顯然地位高很多,你看連emoji都只有龍🐉,鳳的部分我只得拉個紅鸚鵡🐦來替身一下😂
我們就先就鳳凰、鳳跟西方Phoenix來解釋一下:
中國鳳凰與西方 Phoenix(不死鳥)是截然不同的神話生物。中國鳳凰是象徵皇權、五德與天下太平的至高瑞獸,最初分雄鳳雌凰,後常與「龍」配對代表女性或婚姻美滿,且本土神話中並無「浴火」設定,僅在太平盛世現身。
西方的 Phoenix 則是無雌雄之分的烈火之鳥,生命面臨終點時會引火自焚,並在灰燼中蛻變新生,核心意象為「浴火重生」與跨越逆境。兩者雖常互譯,但一表吉祥盛世與德行,一表生命循環與不屈再起,文化意涵完全獨立。
簡單說就是東方鳳跟西方鳳不一樣,但有點像,所以翻譯時就借用了一下,不過我們還是得明察秋毫一下的。跟龍一樣,西方的Dragon跟咱說的龍,其實也是不一樣的。而且有趣的是,原本鳳跟凰是一對的,鳳還是公的,結果後來被硬生生併成一個個體"鳳",然後給許配給龍,變成母的了!😝
那接下來,咱就說說這鳳凰的敘述出處。鳳凰,其外貌記載主要出自兩部典籍。
其一,《山海經·南山經》記載丹穴之山「有鳥焉,其狀如雞,五采而文,名曰鳳皇」,並說牠頭、翼、背、胸、腹的紋樣分別對應德、義、禮、仁、信,會自歌自舞,出現時天下安寧。
其二,東漢許慎《說文解字》描述得更細:「鴻前麐後,蛇頸魚尾,鸛顙鴛思,龍文虎背,燕頷雞喙,五色備舉。」白話來說,鳳凰前半身像大雁,後半身像麒麟,脖子像蛇,尾巴像魚,額頭像鸛鳥,腮像鴛鴦,身上有龍的紋路,背像老虎,下巴像燕子,嘴像雞,青、赤、黃、白、黑五色俱全。《說文》還記載牠出自東方君子之國,飛越崑崙,在弱水洗滌羽毛,傍晚棲宿於風穴。
這種拼合多種動物特徵的寫法,和龍的「九似」是不是很類似?這說明古人想像神獸時,習慣從熟悉的真實動物中各取所長,組合成超越自然的存在。🤣🤣
至於鳳凰地聲音,《山海經》說牠「自歌自舞」,《詩經·大雅》有「鳳皇鳴矣,于彼高岡」;《呂氏春秋·古樂》更記載黃帝命伶倫聽鳳凰鳴叫來訂定十二律,雄鳴六律、雌鳴六律,可見古人認為鳳鳴本身就是音樂的標準。影片中的聲音,大家記得打開喇叭聽聽,很像是笛子一般呢!
後續我還會繼續來做其他的神獸... 感覺很好玩!就來用個 #ai-rebirth 標籤吧!敬請繼續鎖定!😉
最後,既然有龍又有鳳,也來生成一個bonus的龍鳳呈祥的真實版影片吧!
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