There was once a Russian film called "He is a Dragon", the dragon in it is very different from the dragon in our impression, the dragon in traditional Chinese culture represents Xiangrui, but the dragon in this foreign film is the embodiment of the devil, will abduct beautiful girls, whenever it appears, everyone is terrified.
The difference in cultural environment has influenced everyone's view of dragons, and in China, dragons are beyond the existence of all animals, more noble than phoenixes and phoenixes, as well as unicorns and turtles, and are naturally selected as "zodiac signs". Therefore, everyone is also very interested in the origin and legend of dragons, and for a long time, dragons were considered to be fictional creatures of the ancients.
This is because the appearance of the dragon is particularly "combined", it has a lot of real animal features on its body, the body is like a swimming snake, the head is like a galloping horse, the eyes are like a flexible rabbit, and the dragon's horn is very similar to a deer... In addition, Sima Qian had already said that the origin of the dragon was related to the Yellow Emperor, which was created when the Yellow Emperor defeated Xuan You and held a tribal alliance.
At that time, the totems between the tribes were different, and in order to show that everyone was united, the Yellow Emperor deliberately selected a part of the totem of each tribe and assembled it into the image of the "dragon". According to this statement, many animals modeled dragons and achieved the most domineering totem. However, as archaeological discoveries deepened, this view was gradually questioned.
Some people think that the dragon should be the image of the cloud, the ancients took the swimming dragon shape cloud as a god, imitating its appearance to create an object of worship; others believe that there may be a real dragon in ancient times, it lived in an earlier age than the "Yellow Emperor made a dragon", it is likely to be a dinosaur, 6,000 years ago the ancients saw the remnants of the dragon, figurative it in tribal life.
"China's first dragon" is 6600 years ago excavated in the Yangshao cultural site, 33 years ago, In Puyang, Henan Province, Xishuipo ancient tomb found tall male bones, he is surrounded by mussel shells sculpted dragon and tiger pattern, experts believe that such a pattern is in line with the yellow emperor including the Yellow Emperor, including the ancient tribal leaders "ascended to heaven by dragon", is a display of cultural connotation.
In addition, other places have also found "dragons" with an earlier history than the Yellow Emperor period, and if you casually list them, there are dragon-shaped patterns that are more than 4 meters long and spelled out of pebbles in the Jiaodun ruins more than 6,000 years ago; two earth-shaped dragons have also been found in the Yangjiawa site about 8,000 years ago, which are older than the previous "dragons".
Since the owner of the tomb can be buried with a "dragon" and a "tiger" after death, indicating that his identity must not be low, the tall man in the Yangshao cultural site is often considered to be the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, and the place where the tomb was unearthed happens to be the hometown of the dragon, all indications show that the dragon is probably not a product of fiction, on the contrary, it does have some kind of archetype.
Therefore, some historians believe that the Yellow Emperor only improved the appearance of the dragon, did not "invent" the dragon, and the descendants, out of the worship of the Yellow Emperor, combined the legends between the two together to make the image of the Yellow Emperor more plump. Did the ancients create dragons out of worship of nature, or did they create dragons after mythologizing the function of some kind of animal? This question is still not answered definitively.