饕餮（同音与：涛帖【四声】）
《神异经》记载：
西南方有人焉，身多毛，頭上戴豕。貪如狼惡，好自積財，而不食人穀。強者奪老弱者，畏群而擊單。名曰饕餮。
《春秋·左传》曰：
缙云氏有不才之子，贪于饮食，冒于货贿。侵欲崇侈，不可盈厌；聚敛积实，不知纪极。不分孤寡，不恤穷匮。天下之民以比三凶，谓之饕餮。
《吕氏春秋》中有言：
周鼎著饕餮，有首無身，食人未咽，害及其身，以言报更也。
饕餮，常用成语有《饕餮盛宴》，字面的意思是就算是饕餮来了，也能够享用的丰盛食物。
因其字难写而在现代社会广为流传。
为上古四凶兽之一，是贪欲，强夺，欺凌的化身。
不知道为什么，但最近几年被传为某种《祥瑞》，甚至被当做镇宅兽，本作者不知所谓。
在古代，当一个地方的皇帝横征暴敛，官吏们贪污腐败，结党营私，蝇营狗苟，商人逐利而忘义，人们欺凌弱小，畏惧强权而又贪婪无度的时候，就象征这个地方是《饕餮现世》，它是人们无法抑制的欲望，是最深沉的凶恶。故而被称作《四凶》之一。
《夜航船》中这样描述其外貌：
羊身人面，其目在腋下，虎齿人爪，声如婴儿，钩玉山中有之。
坊间传言，饕餮有牛状，有虎状，有羊状，有猪状，有头状，有类人状，但无一例外都是大口尖牙，吞噬并饥饿。
TaoTie
The Book - Divine Difference records:
There is a man in the southwest, with a hairy body and a boar on his head. He is as greedy as a wolf, and is good at accumulating wealth, but does not eat human grain. The strong take the old and weak, fear of the group and fight single. The name is Taotie.
The Book - Spring and Autumn Period - Zuo Zhuan" said:
Jinyun's have not talented son, greedy in food, risking in goods and bribes. Intrusion of lavish, can not be full of tired; collection of accumulation of real, do not know the discipline of the extreme. He did not distinguish between orphans and widows, and did not care for the poor. The people of the world are called gourmets in comparison to the three evils.
In the Book - Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, it is said:
Zhou Ding Taotie, with a head without a body, eating people before swallowing, harm and its body, to say that the retribution also.
【Translated with DeepL】
饕餮/taotie, always be used in a Chinese idiom which meaning is <A never-ending feast>. Taotie itself is a monster, who always hunger , greedy and will not be satisfied. If a feast were able to feed this monster, that means this feast includes the most wonderful and all kinds of food.
The reason why 饕餮/taotie is famous recently just because the characters are difficult to write.
One of the four ancient demon beasts, it is the embodiment of greed, power and bullying.
I don't know why, but in recent years it has been rumoured to be some kind of 'auspicious' animal and even used as a Mascot, unknown to myself. 【As in using Satan as one's Kindness patron saint，so weird.】
In ancient China, when the emperor of a place is corrupt, the officials are corrupt, the party is corrupt, the businessmen are profit-seeking and forget righteousness, people bully the weak, fear the powerful and greedy, it is a symbol of this place is the "Taotie is present", it is the people can not restrain the desire, is the deepest viciousness. This is why it is called one of the Four Demon Beasts.
Its appearance is described in The Night Vessel as follows:
A goat with a human face, its eyes in the armpits, tiger teeth and human claws, with a voice like a baby's, which is found in the Hooked Jade Mountains.
Rumour has it that the Taotie has a bull-like appearance, a tiger-like appearance, a sheep-like appearance, a pig-like appearance, a head-like appearance and a human-like appearance, but without exception all have large mouths and sharp teeth, devouring and starving.
