We all know that Japanese and Korean cultures are deeply influenced by Chinese civilization, which leads to many of their ancient legends originating from China. For example, the monster that appeared at the beginning of the film "47 Ronin" is the legendary creature recorded in our "Fengshen Yanyi" - monster number 0079: four dissimilarities. (Four is not like a wrong statement)
"47 Ronin" is adapted from the Edo period "Motoroku Ako Incident" (the story of the revenge of the loyal subjects, real historical events), in fact, the story itself has no half-cent relationship with mythological creatures, but Carl Rising (director of "47 Ronin") made them appear in the film in order to increase the visual effects.
I checked a lot of information about "47 Ronin", but unfortunately there was no detailed description of the creatures that appeared in the film. Various film reviews have introduced the monster that debuted as the "Six-Eyed Staghorn Beast", a powerful creature that is a hybrid of several animals. At first, the Fat Cat thought that the "Six-Eyed Staghorn Beast" was a hybrid monster like an earth spider. (The earth spider is shaped like a tiger body, spider legs, and a grimace, a well-known monster in Japan.) But after looking for half a day, I didn't find the legend of the six-eyed antlered beast, and combined with the "47 Ronin" picture, it is estimated that this name is taken by others according to its appearance in the film, so there is no source.
Since Japanese and Korean culture originated from China, the prototype of this monster is basically on our side. So I immediately thought of the Beast Kirin, because its shape is a dragon head, lion's eye, antlers, and a body like a musk deer, which are very similar to the monsters in the film, but the Kirin also has an important feature that is flight, and the monsters in "47 Ronin" obviously do not have this feature.
So the fat cat flipped through the Chinese book "Shan Hai Jing" (many legendary creatures in Japan are actually derived from the "Shan Hai Jing", including their legendary demon beast Yagi Great Snake), and found that the appearance of the Zhongshan God was very similar to this monster. Zhongshan God, also known as Zhongshan God, is a mountain god with a radius of 3,500 miles from the ancient Daughter Mountain to Jia Chao Mountain. In the shape of a horse and a dragon head, it has the strength of a thousand jun, jumping on the top of the mountains. (What is more interesting is that in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", in addition to the god of Zhongshan and the god of Zhongshan, the corresponding is the ancestor of the ten thousand dragons, the candle dragon, which is recorded as "the god of the bell mountain, known as the candle yin, regarded as day, blind for night, blowing for winter, and calling for summer", which is one of the ancient super divine beasts.) ）
This description is actually very close to the monster in "47 Ronin", but unfortunately, the Zhongshan God should be the dragon's head and tail, and the tail of the 47 Ronin monster is closer to the leopard's tail. Therefore, the fat cat can only check from the appearance of the monster in the end, and finally see a sentence in the "Fengshen Yanyi": "The head and tail of the lin are like dragons, and the feet are like nine weights." The four seas and nine states are randomly everywhere, and the three mountains and five mountains are suddenly in a flash", which describes Jiang Ziya's mount and the ancient beast "Four Dissimilarities".
The description of the four dissimilarities is basically the same as the monster in "47 Ronin" (except for the six eyes, some of the elements should be pieced together by the creator), and the prototype of the four dissimilarities is the elk, so the biological belonging of this monster is naturally: chordate phylum, mammals, even-hoofed order, deer family, elk genus.
Compared with the scene in the film "47 Ronin", the height of the ronin version is between 2.5 meters and 3.5 meters, and the body length is about 7 to 8 meters. The shape is that of the dragon-tailed body described above.
However, the monster in "47 Ronin" is obviously a castrated version of the legend, except for the huge brute force obtained by relying on its size, its attack and defense means are quite mediocre. In terms of attack, only antlers are struck and tails are swept, while the defensive side is ordinary flesh and blood, which cannot withstand the attack of adult males using cold weapons. To be honest, it is more like a giant herbivores, except for the fierce point that there is really no need to hunt.
Next, continue to introduce the strange creatures that exist in the fantasy world of human beings, and the interested friends remember to pay attention to me in advance.