What Ru Shi Writes

Whatever comes to mind. Sometimes a story I read, sometimes something that came to me while holding my mala beads.

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Chinese Dragons Don't Breathe Fire. They Breathe Rain.

A foreign vlogger held up a Chinese dragon lantern and said it breathes fire. I paused the video. That golden dragon with deer antlers and fish scales didn't look like anything that would breathe fire. It looked more like a cloud.

6/27/20268 min

mythology

The Four Invisible Animals in Your Living Room: Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise

After moving my couch from the west wall to the east, something felt off for a week. A friend said I had a tiger behind me. That sent me into the Four Symbols — four creatures the ancients saw in the stars, and what they say about the space around us.

6/18/20268 min