Because there is no such bird as Phoenix in nature, we can only appreciate the image and beauty of Phoenix from ancient books, such as Er Ya. Guo Pu's Note: "The fishtail on the back of the head of a plesiosaur is five colors and six feet high." According to "Praise of Mountains and Seas", the Phoenix has five pictographs: "The first word is Yue De, the wing is Shun, the back is Yi, and the abdomen is Yue Xin, which is like Ren Yue." Xu Shen said in Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Han Dynasty: Phoenix "comes from the country of oriental gentlemen, flies across the four seas, crosses Kunlun, drinks the mainstay, drags its feathers into the weak water, stays in the wind (Dan) cave at dusk, and then the world is peaceful." The book quoted Tian Lao, a courtier of the Yellow Emperor, as saying: "A phoenix is also like a phoenix, with a snake-neck fish tail, cheekbones and brooding (cheekbones), a dragon face and a tiger's back, a swallow's beak and five colors." As for the phoenix, this is the beauty of many animals. Relevant scholars believe that the phoenix is a kind of bird totem worship of ancient ancestors. From the image of Phoenix, it combines the characteristics of natural objects worshipped by different clans in ancient times, resulting in the beautiful totem of "Phoenix".

On the origin of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the word "Feng" and the word "Feng" are the same word, and its glyph is a bird with the symbol "Xin" on its head (see the picture above, quoted from A Brief History of the Origin of Characters). In ancient China, Dongyi people worshipped birds, and in Shun Di's time, they took birds as their official names. The essence of "bird" here refers to the wind related to rain, that is, the phoenix. Although there may not be wind and rain, clouds and rain must rely on the wind to travel around the world. Wind is a natural force that transports clouds and rain, so it will also be worshipped by the ancients who are eager for rain.

The pronunciation of "wind" is to simulate the sound of four or five kinds of wind blowing in the ear, which is between "bang" and "buzz".

The wind has no concrete image, so it is impossible to describe its shape. The wise ancients used the image of a bird to describe the wind. There are four similarities between wind and birds. First, birds are good at singing, and the wind is good at singing. Wind is the creator of many natural sounds. Secondly, the wind and birds fly without touching the ground in the form of movement; Third, some birds are migratory birds, which migrate seasonally and the wind is seasonal. Fourth, some birds live in lush vegetation, suddenly fly and disappear in the blink of an eye, while the wind of strong convective weather in summer comes and goes without a trace.

In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, "Xin" means "driven". Therefore, the word "phoenix" or "wind" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions represents such a concept: first, it is driven by heaven; Second, its sound is the wind blowing in the ear; Third, its image is similar to a bird, coming and going without a trace; Fourth, its function is to accept providence and distribute sex. The wind has both a soft side and a strong side. Softness is cool, anger is flying sand and stones, destroying houses and trees, which is also worthy of awe.