Talk:Black Tortoise

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I fixed two errors: 1)Genbu is of Water, not of earth & stone & 2)Seiryu is of wood (& sometimes wind),not water & wind. - Harahu

I second that. But for some reason, Harahu, the errors were still there. I have made the fixes. Uly 12:14, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Female Tortoises and Male Snakes

Does this ancient Chinese legend of female tortoises (a proxy for "northern women," perhaps?) mating with male snakes ("eastern men"?) have something to do with the Chinese idiomatic expression, "dai lü mao" (literally, "to wear a green hat," but actually connoting a man's being cuckolded by his wife)? The color green/blue is a symbol for the eastern direction in Chinese cosmology.

Northern women is quite a offensive modern usage and I'm sure it has nothing to do with the legendary Xian Wu. Northern women mostly applied by Southern Chinese, like Cantonese, specially Hong Kong man for having extramartial affair with mainland woman. -- Sameboat - 同舟 05:58, 16 July 2007 (UTC)