It is a legend that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, and the nine sons are not that the dragon really gave birth to nine sons, but that the dragon has many sons. Nine is an imaginary number, not a real finger. It has never been clear which nine sons were born, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that different theories began to appear. Because these nine sons have different opinions, they are not unanimous. Therefore, there has been no conclusion, so we will take a more common way of saying it.
The nine sons of the dragon are: the old man imprisons the cow, likes music, and crouches on the head of the piano; the second elder is blind, loves to kill and fight, and is engraved on the sword ring and the handle of the sword; the old third laughs at the wind, resembles a beast, and has good hopes in life, and the beast on the corner of the temple platform is its relic, and some people have always believed that it is a phoenix with a dragon vein; the fourth son Pu Prison, when he is hit, roars loudly, and acts as the beast button of the Hong Zhong Ti Liang to help him sound far away.
In addition, the five sons are foxes, shaped like lions, like to sit on smoke, so the image generally appears on the incense burner, and then swallows smoke and spits fog; the six sons are hegemonic, also known as gantu, like turtles with teeth, like weights, are turtles under the monument; the seven sons of the fox, shaped like a tiger, good litigation, there are their images on both sides of the prison gate or the main hall of the official court; the eight sons bear the burden, like a dragon, Yahao Swen, coiled above the stone stele; the old nine snouts, also known as the bird's tail or partridge kiss, the mouth is thick and easy to swallow, and it becomes a swallowing beast at both ends of the temple ridge, taking its fire to extinguish the disaster.
These nine animals have good music, some good killing, some good sitting, some good roaring, some good weight bearing, some good hope, and so on. From the preferences of these nine animals, it can be seen that their personalities are also different, which is actually a metaphor or symbol.
In feudal society, the dragon was a symbol of imperial power, and the emperor had to wear a dragon robe, nine dragons, and the claws of the dragon were five fingers. Others can not wear, at most wear python robes, pythons are four fingers, showing the emperor's nobility and extraordinary. But the emperor's sons were many, because his harem had many concubines for him, so he could have many sons. As for the princess, I will not say it, because they are all going to get married, and if they marry according to the traditional etiquette, they are the people of other people's families.
So many princes, it is impossible for all of them to be outstanding politicians, of course, there must be some unformed or some crooked talents, so the common people will attach this phenomenon to the nine sons of Longsheng, alluding to the emperor's descendants are not instruments. The Ming Dynasty, which was produced by this statement, was a very strange dynasty, and there were many strange emperors.
For example, the carpenter Emperor Zhu Youxiao, this person is very interesting, his own living utensils are personally made, which can be called a model of self-reliance. There was also a delicious emperor Zhu Gaozi, who reigned for ten months, ate to death, ate too fat and even had to be supported by eunuchs to walk, and as a result, too much fat accumulation was a life.
In addition to the Ming Dynasty, there were also some untalented emperors in other dynasties, such as the Jin Huai Emperor, who liked to kill pigs, but also had to sell meat with knives, and did not need to be weighed for a long time, and it was not bad to use his hands. In Chinese history, those who were born in the imperial family and finally became emperors, and there were very few who did something, and the glorious deeds of these people simply made people laugh off their teeth.
Let the common people see the ugly and decadent face of the feudal rulers through the thick fat powder, so they attach this ugly social phenomenon to the nine sons of the dragon, but none of them are Jackie Chan.
Later, with the progress of the times, this statement also evolved into a statement for some famous people who were not inferior. When referring to a celebrity and his unskilled children, it is often said that "the nine sons of the dragon have their own strengths", which indirectly becomes a regret and criticism of the gradual degeneration of the descendants of celebrities.