THe significance of the Chinese black tortise in Chinese Daoist culture

True original authentic Chinese relgious culture is its river Dragon Emperor worship from its auto-chronologiccal shamantist and primitive culture due to tis River civlisation settlement . It is neither Daosim, buddhism and Confucionism which were intellectual revolutionary philosophies which came much later in the development of the Chinese civilisation. As according to ETC Warner's myth and legends of China, Chinese sociology evolved from the spread of the Indo-aryan migration from Sumeria into ancinet Greece, India, Egypt and China and it was the slave tribal Chief King Chi or Emperor Chi who spurred on the Han Chinese migration across the asain steppes cira the Akkadain king Sargon the great and the Gilgamesph Biblical great flood stories . The subsequent settlement of the Han chinese race into the coastal plains of central China and its river civilisation atthe Yellow river Delta and the YangZi or long river craeted the legend of the Yellow emperor or Huang di and the reig of its Shahmantic Sage king or five Augustus sovereigns of Empeor Yao, Yu , Shun and Yu the great . It is Yu the great legend who subdued the floods from the Akkidain era that was tied up in a creation myth in which Yu the great consulted a gigantic Magic Chinese snake tortise snake with an oracle to subdue the great flood. This creation myth is the evidence of the Chinese prehistorical evoltion missing link which is linked to the giant Turtles of Galapogos . In my pratice of the Yellow Empeor Daoyin Qigong which is tied up in Chinese alchemy, astrology, planetry ecology and internal chinese chinese medcine for my renal kidney failure, it is stated that the my kidney as one of the five organs besides the heart, liver, Spleen and lungs is linked astrologically to the magic black tortise of the north in alingment with the planet Mecury and the Magic tortise of Hung di in which Shnag di being a half man and dragon demi water god and the god of the north pole has the tortise as an aquatic symbol of water power besides Zhu rong the fire god represnted by the fire snake . Shang di being the great bear or Ursa major star of the north rules over water and fire power of the mountins, rocks, rivers , sky and land as symbolic of the chinese strive for ecological balance and harmony of water and fire power . The black snake tortise is synomously a boy warrior torise spirit who helps Shang di to rule on behalf of Huang di and it is highly symbolic of water power and longetivity . The chinese god of weatlh rides of a tiger , The Chinese god of prestige rides on a dragon and the chinese god of longevity rides on a a tortise. Why is that so ? Both the crocodile and the turtle are considered as children and descendants of the drago king known as the Crocodile tuo dragon or dragon princes or duchess and it was the Dragon prince tortise tuo dragon or tuo dragon-prince which became the Chinese marine naval astrlogical symbol in its history and that was wny my matrnal great grandfather Bian Bao di had the Tuo dragon tortise tablet to commenrate his achievement having done great things for the nation as well as devloping the Fukien docklands and ship-buliding in his offical career as the governor-general of Fukien . so following with my fasciantion and intriggue by the Huang Di Shangdi legend , I asked myself some very significant curious facts and persoanl questions that will help to answer and impact on my persoanl life , directon and destiny : 1.What is the turth behinf this Chinese tortise heraldry 2.the pre-historical evoltionary misisng link with the Giant turltles of Galapogos 3. Why is the Tortise regraded as a symbol of longevity and assoicated with alchemy, awe and magic and it is until now that I woke up to these answers a. The giant gigantic green trutles and desert Californain turles are indeed a humogous and majestist sight to behold that the mind of primitive men would associte it with magic b. That it is a fact that Turtles and tortiese of all shapes and sizes are the greatest and longest surviours of pre-historical reptiles than the snake, Crocodlie and other replties c. Turltes are very unique in its self-defensive cohabitant and its shell life gives its strenght to surive . tortise shalls are so unique that thee is no other materail or ttiiuse or nerver bone that could replace its atomic shell structure other than to be repelced by fibger glass . No woder that turlte shells are so sacred, rare and preciously unique that it was used by the chiense for tortise shell divination, magic and alchemy d. that the legendary Snake tortise warrior in relation to the wroship of Shang di as its water guardain is actually the African Alligator Turtle . It is not only huge in size but a very fromidable predator of the sea and to be respected and subsequently incoparated as a clestial marine imperial Chinese symbol and knowning now gives me some clue that Shang di has per-detemiend by fate that I should have an interest in the preservation of turtles and tortises in realtion to my future destiny becasue they are a unique wonder as part of the Chinese acquatic ecolgocal marine naval astronomical heritage and life .

Western Chinese provincial religions and JiangNan culture

My practice of Ba gua Dao-yin Qigong is based on the Yellow Emperor classicals of internal chinese medicine and astrology . This led me to acquire the skills in Qi gong astral porjections and ghost dreaming . It is from my extreme fascination in the Chinese classical detective mystery paranormal fiction of Robert Van gulik Judge Dee Ren jie criminal fiction and Feng Meng Long's unorhdox recalitrant writings of the famous Ming dynasty Suzhou prefect Kuang Zhong that led me into a real life adventure that I was able to absorb the profusion of the local religious folklore of western China as well as the confluences of Suzhou-Hangzhou JiangNan culture. According to Dr robert Can gulik's Judge dee mysteries, Judge dee Ren jie served as a county magistrate in Lanzhou and it is a true historical fact that Judge dee at one time the governor of Gansu in the Ning prefecture . So I used my Qigong astral projection skills one day and projected my request to the lord in the way beyound and into an image of Judge Dee in Robert Van gulik's DEE gong Ann novel for a personal real life encounter of Judge dee's manefestion one day . When my prayer was answered, my parents and I undertook a silk road trip into China's western provinces starting from Sechuan and the estuary of the Yellow river . and it was true to my wishes in Lanzhou and one afternoon that I discovered an effigy of Judge dee in a local sovenoiur curio shop. There the locals weaved a beautifully crafted Judge Dee doll effigy made of cotton riding on a water bufflao and brandshing two chinese swords for protection and to ward of the spirits and I kowtowed promptly to it . It was there and then that I discoverd for myself that Judge Dee has been raised and dietified up in a local chinese folklore and custom in river dragon-king worship for auspicality, peace and protection of natinal welfare and happiness and ghost dreaming because Judge dee was the county prefect of Gansu and its local praton. Moving on with our Silk road trip to Sechuan , Gansu and Dun huang,other subsequent discovries I made on the silk road adventure were: 1.From western Sechaun provinces of Cheng du where local Daosit folklore is populary prasticed was the veneration of Zhu Ge liang, Xiang yu and Jade empeor who were the local boxer gods in the ninetheen century. -Zhu ge laing is tied up in Chinese astronomical calculations , naval arfare and strategy from the classcail stories if the Three Kingdoms. - Xiang yu is drawned as a local insparation from the tragic story of farewell my concubine and that he was a great adminstrator and the duke of the western China - Jade empeor worship was in relation to the evolution of a helio-centric society and rasid to almighty God from the Indian king indra in the Tang dynasty 2. The Gansu Buddist who are into vijiranna Buddhism when budhism spreaded from india into Western china in the northern Wei and Lioa dynasty and tea trade which extended from sechaun into the kyber pass into the Tibetan Himalayans, Sikkim and India 3. The phenomnal Du huang grotos in which enormous buddhst murals are well preserved that spreaded from the Pimar hills of Monk Xauan Zhang's prilgrimage to the west and from the Euro-Asians silk routes of Samrankan, Bukkara, Transoxnaia, Takikstan and Ubekistzan 4. Turkic Ugyger Manicheansim, Nestoranism , Islam and the comical Sufis saint of Narsidin Avanti from the Euro Aryan turkic of East Turkestan and the Tungus tribe of siberia and golden tartars who raised the towns of Kohtan, Talamankan, Mongolia and central asia of Kashgar , Tajikstan , Kazahstan and Ferghana of tody's Soviet Russsia Republic. 5. The Hui muslims of Gansu , Ningxia, Shanxi , Yunan provinces and Canton in which the is are the ancestral homeland of famed Turkic Arabian Admiral Cheng ho . The unorthodox confucion Scholar Feng Meng long is famed for the local folk ballad of a local coutesean Du shi Niang as well as the story of the local Ming dynasty prefect Kuang Zhong in the story 15 strings of cash. Projecting my Energies into Kuang zhong ,I again wished for an encounter of prefect Kuang Zhong . My wish was granted when in a family trip to Suzhou and it was in sigthing the famous Suzhou mystical temple of dreams that was dedicated to the Chinese God of literature temple. This Suzhou mystical temple of dreams specailsies in 1. the veneration of the three pure ones 2. pratice of Zheng yi Daoist monks I encountred prefect Kung zhong there . It was in the famous Suzhou memorail everlasting gardens that the elite intectuall officals of the Song and Ming dynasty were commenrated besdies prefect Kuang Zhong of Tiger Hills . Suzhou is thus an intellectual paradise of great intellectul cultural accomplished literates of Ou Yang Xun, Su Dong po,Liu Buwen, Wang Tian Xiang, Hai Rui , Zhang Ju zhen , Qi ji Guang , General Yue Fei and Qin hui, mad Buddhist monks of Dao ji and Feng bao and the worship of the Yellow Emepor and Leizu by the silk and shipping industy of Zheng zhou water towns who coalensed to contribute to the uniquely exotic flavours of JiangNan culture and folklore.