[alien beast 3] Sky dog
Yinshan, there is a kind of wild animal in the mountain, shaped like a wild cat but with a white head. Its name is Tiandou. Its cry is similar to the pronunciation of "liu liu". People raise it to ward off evil spirits.
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a man named "Mu Lian". He is a good Buddha by nature and a kind man. Very filial to his mother, however, the mother of Mu Lian, as a sissy, violent by nature, likes and dislikes people.
On one occasion, on a whim, the mother of the eye came up with a bad idea: the monk chanted the Buddha and went vegetarian. I'm going to make fun of them and eat dog meat. She ordered to make 360 dog meat steamed bread, said it was vegetarian steamed bread, to go to the temple to fast. When Mulian knew about it, he persuaded his mother not to listen and called someone to inform the abbot of the temple. The abbot prepared 360 vegetarian steamed buns. Hidden in every monk's cassock sleeve. The mother of Mulian came to fast and gave each monk a dog steamed bread. When the monk was chanting the Buddha before dinner, he swapped the dog steamed bread with the vegetarian steamed bread in his sleeve, and then ate it. The mother of Mu Lian saw that the monks had all eaten her steamed bread. "Hey, hey," clapped her hands and laughed and said, "Today the monk opened meat!" The monk ate dog meat steamed bread! "the abbot clasped his hands and read aloud," Amitabha Buddha, sin! " "after that, 360 dog steamed buns were buried in the earth at the back of the temple.
When the Jade Emperor of heaven learned of this, he was very angry. The mother of the eye company will be laid down eighteen layers of hell, into a vicious dog, never beyond life.
Mu Lian is a filial son, learned that his mother went to hell. He practiced day and night and finally became a Tibetan Bodhisattva. To save his mother, he opened the gates of hell with a tin stick. The mother of Mu Lian and all the evil spirits escaped from hell and were reincarnated into the world of chaos. The Jade Emperor was so angry that Mu Lian went down to the earth to devote himself to the yellow nest. Later, "Huang Nest killed 8 million," legend is to collect this group of evil spirits who escaped from hell.
The mother of Mulian became a vicious dog. After escaping from hell, because she hated the Jade Emperor very much, she rushed to Heaven to get even with the Jade Emperor. She could not find the Jade Emperor in the sky, so she went after the sun and the moon, trying to devour them and turn the heaven and earth into a dark world. The evil dog chased and chased day and night! When she caught up with the moon, she swallowed it in one mouthful, and when she caught up with the sun, she swallowed it in one mouthful. However, the mother of Mulian became a vicious dog, who was most afraid of gongs and drums and setting off firecrackers, so scared that the evil dog had to spit out the sun and moon she had swallowed. After the sun and moon were rescued, the sun and moon shone again. The evil dog was unwilling to catch up again, and again it formed eclipses of the sun and the moon in the sky. The folk name is "the sky dog eats the sun" and "the sky dog eats the moon". Until now, every solar and lunar eclipses, many urban and rural people still spread the custom of beating gongs and drums, setting off firecrackers to drive away the sky dog.