The dragon has always been one of the most representative traditional cultures of the Chinese nation, and there are many legends about the dragon, and the rise of the dragon is believed by most experts to be from the Yellow Emperor Busan Hefu, the "History of the Five Emperors Benji" records that the Yellow Emperor after defeating the Yan Emperor and Xuan You, toured the four directions, unified the major tribes, so created the "nine like" dragon totem.
But in later generations, various dragon rumors began to gradually overturn the totem, in the archaeological evidence, in 1995, Liaoning's Fuxing Longwa culture Chahai site found a 19.7 meters long redstone pile plastic dragon, which shows that the history of Chinese dragons has been 8,000 years.
The nearest dragon rumor to us is the Yingkou dragon fall incident in 1934, and the mystery of the tree falling in the Moshan Mountain Scenic Area in the Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area in Hubei Province in 1999, moshan broke 710 large trees overnight, forming a kilometer-long trick, some local fishermen claim to be dragons, but about the dragon are rumors, there is no real evidence, but Japan has a real dragon specimen.
This true dragon specimen is now preserved with TheRayoji Temple, Nawasu District, Osaka, Japan, it is said that this dragon has a history of more than 370 years, but this dragon is only about one meter (1 meter), with short horns on the head, a beard on the mouth, relatively short limbs, and scales all over the body, due to the antiseptic treatment, the whole body is brushed with gold paint, made of specimens, and the original color cannot be seen.
It is said that the dragon was introduced to Japan from China in the fourth year of Meiji (1871 AD) and found that the dragon was a Chinese fisherman, when he passed by the river and saw a dying dragon, he immediately knocked the dragon unconscious, and packed it in a cloth bag and sold it to a merchant of Bandai Fujibei.
After Bandai Fujibetsu brought the dragon back to Japan, he gave it to a great general named Mingze, Who liked the dragon very much and gave a heavy reward to Bandai Fujibei, but after more than a month, Akasa had a strange illness, and the doctors could not find out the cause, and Mingze thought that the spirit of the dragon had not yet rested, so he donated the dragon to Ruilong Temple.
Ruilong Temple is also a layer of gold dust for the dragon, enshrined so far, about the history of the dragon, is also hung on the dragon specimen Huangling for people to see, but this dragon is true or false, there is no conclusion, and the Japanese side has not carried out DNA testing, and even do not let biologists touch, why is this?
Dragon culture is not only spread in China, Japan also believes in dragons, in Japan's ancient architecture, the Chinese Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties have more dragon forms, and in the Takamatsuzuka tomb is unearthed a seventh-century mural "Green Dragon Map", according to speculation, Chinese dragons spread to Japan in the Han Dynasty.
Japan worship of dragons also has a history of one or two thousand, the dragon is sacred in their eyes, but also enshrined in the Ruilong Temple, naturally can not be randomly offended with the dragon, the next day is the famous factor of the Ruilong Temple, Ruilong Temple is famous mainly in the exquisite wood carving technology, their wood carving architecture is designated as a national treasure.
More than 300 years ago, if you carved a dragon and painted it with gold powder, it was enough to fake the real thing, so Ruilong Temple did not let the professional test this dragon!