Every little girl loves a dreamy unicorn, a beautiful, pure and mysterious creature that symbolizes infinite love and courage and can open doors to one fantasy world after another. “The only factor that determines your achievement is the power of your dreams and your willingness to fight for them.” –The Ponyboys.
In current Western mythology, unicorns are horse-like in appearance, with a body as white as snow, and a spiral horn in front of their foreheads, whose horn has antidote properties, and when ground into a powder can be used as an antidote to poison, and even has the effect of immortality. Some stories also describe the unicorn as a divine beast with a pair of wings, which is rare to find and sacrosanct.
In ancient China, there are also legends about the unicorn beast, “Classic of the Mountains and Seas – West Mountain scripture” cloud: “and three hundred miles to the west, said in the song of the mountain …… there are beasts, the shape of its like a horse and white body and black tail, a horn, tiger teeth and claws, sound like a drum sound, its name is barge, is to eat tigers and leopards, can be imperial soldiers. ” Its shape is like a horse, white body, a horn, the name “barge” of the Oriental beast and the Western description of the unicorn is very similar, can be said to be the same.
There are also some exaggerated descriptions of the unicorn. Some people believe that the unicorn is a goat-like creature, describing it as a ferocious beast with elephant-like limbs, a lion’s tail, a goat-like upper body, and a black spiral-shaped horn on its head. Some people say that the unicorn is actually a wild creature in India, with a white body, purple head, blue eyes, a straight and hard horn, bottom white, black, red at the top, sounds with the apotheosis of the one-horned rhinoceros (also known as the Indian rhinoceros) has a few similarities.
No matter in which description, the unicorn is a kind of difficult to tame creatures, they are extremely sensitive, as soon as the discovery of movement, they immediately fled, not to mention captured, even just want to get close to the unicorn, it is almost impossible. However, unicorns like purity and innocence, easily tempted by the beautiful girl, when the girl close to, touch it, it will obediently tame, the proud head down, leaning on the hem of the girl’s skirt to sleep, so hunters are often virgins as a bait to catch unicorns.
Does the clever unicorn really not know that the gentle and skillful maiden is a trap? How much courage and loyalty does it take to surrender yourself unreservedly once you’ve decided? Do you want a unicorn like that?
I’ve seen unicorns in New York
Overlooking New York, the Hudson River runs through the city, and the roads crisscross the city, east and west horizontally as streets, north and south vertically as roads, dividing the city into countless small squares, each one hiding a surprise. In New York, I never get tired of walking, I like to feel the texture of the city step by step, measure its width with my feet, and let my imagination take me into the history, art and movies that belong to it.
I have seen unicorns in the Central Park neighborhood.
It was in Fort Trainor Park, on the northern edge of Manhattan, where the Abbey Museum stands quietly, its serenity unshaken by centuries of wind and rain. The faux-medieval abbey is one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s branches, featuring works of medieval European art and architecture, with The Hunt of the Unicorn or the Unicorn Tapestries series as its centerpiece. The series consists of seven tapestries depicting a group of noblemen and hunters hunting a unicorn and dates from 1495 to 1505. The tapestry series, although produced in the south of the Netherlands, is based on a Parisian design, luxuriously interwoven with silver and gilded threads mixed with wool and silk, and the colors of natural dyes are still vibrant today. It is believed that a piece of tapestry as large as this, 368 x 252 centimeters, would have taken four to six male weavers and at least a year to complete, and the series has thus come to be known as one of the finest and most intricate works of art of the late Middle Ages.
The Unicorn in Captivity is the last and most famous of the series. The painting is of a lush, green meadow; there are over 100 species of plants in the entire series, and at least 20 in this painting. Against the backdrop of the plants, a unicorn is loosely tethered to a pomegranate tree; the chain does not appear to be strong, and it is surrounded by a low fence, so that if it wished, it could break free and run to freedom with a gentle jump, but it chooses to be trapped in a small part of the fence, so that it can see that its imprisonment is both voluntary and pleasurable.
There is a red mark on the side of the unicorn’s body, which is the juice dripping from the pomegranates on the tree. The fruitful pomegranate represented marriage and fertility in the Middle Ages, a theme echoed by the wild orchids, zinnias, and thistles that grew in the meadow, which were reputed to be fertility aids for men and women in the Middle Ages. One conjecture suggests that the tapestries allude to love, fidelity, marriage and fertility in a number of ways, and that it was created to celebrate marriage, with the unicorn symbolizing the lover’s fall into the bonds of love. There is also another theory that the noble creature of the unicorn symbolizes the resurrection of Christ, and on one side of the unicorn, the pomegranate drips blood-like juice, also re-emphasizing the idea of resurrection.
Upon closer inspection of the tapestry, in its upper left, upper right, and lower right corners, as well as on the pomegranate tree in the center, the twisted ropes look like an A and a reversed E tied together. The provenance of these seven tapestries, the identity of their designers, the original narrative order, the meaning of the stories illustrated, the mysterious AE letters that appear in each piece, and so on, are mysteries that have been debated by connoisseurs for years.
The Unicorn in Captivity tapestry was featured several times in the movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, hanging on the walls of the corridor near the Room of Requirement, and in the common rooms of Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff Houses, where the tapestry was replaced with the theme colors of the respective houses. theme colors as the background. At Universal Studios in Los Angeles and Orlando, a replica of the tapestry graces the walls of the queue area for the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey roller coaster, featuring the interior of Hogwarts Castle. The Unicorn in Captivity also hangs in the school’s art room in the upper right corner of the screen during the first appearance of heroine MJ in the movie Spider-Man: Hero’s Journey. The tapestry is also featured a couple of times in the American TV show The Marvelous Adventures of Sabrina.
Do you believe in unicorns?
The Unicorn in Captivity has appeared several times in film and television, and the imagery of the unicorn is ubiquitous in literature and art, symbolizing purity, beauty, and fidelity. So, do you believe that unicorns are real?
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