
In ancient time, these four spiritual creatures symbolize for guardian of cardinal directions. They are the black turtle (Xuan Wu), green dargon (Qing Long), white tiger (Bai Hu) and red pheonix (Zhu Que) represent front, back, left and right direction of each guardian. These four creatures also being used as four cardinal directions, north, south, east and west, symbolize harmonious and prosperities. This method is widely used in today's feng shui world, at the same time, it is also applied in face reading as well.
