Dragons are mythical creatures in ancient Chinese legends. The dragon is the symbol of the Chinese nation, and Chinese are proud to be "the descendants of the dragon". Other Asian countries and ethnic groups are also influenced by the Chinese dragon culture. Legend has it that it can be hidden, thin and huge, short and long. The spring equinox ascends to the sky, the autumn equinox dives into the abyss, the wind and rain, and these are already the images of dragons that have developed in the late stages, which are more complex than the original dragons. The Zhang Guo Xing Jing yun: "If there are auxiliary wings, it is a true dragon", which is believed to be a true dragon. For example, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were a large number of feathered dragon vessels, and even the green dragon also had wings in the pre-Qin ornamentation, saying that the Ying Dragon and the Green Dragon were ancestral dragons. In the feudal era, the dragon was a symbol of imperial power, and the utensils used in the imperial palace were also decorated with dragons, but unlike the widely spread saying that "the five-clawed golden dragon is the symbol of the son of heaven", ancient books recorded that there was a winged flying dragon, and the square was the image of the son of heaven. The dragon ranks fifth in the traditional Chinese zodiac, and is called the "Four Spirits" together with the phoenix, turtle and lin in the Book of Rites and Fortunes.
We all know that at the beginning, the archaeological community believed in the existence of the Xia Dynasty, because there was a record of the Xia Dynasty in the "Records of History", although the content was not detailed, but because the "History" was one of the "Twenty-Four Histories", most of its contents were verifiable, therefore, people also believed that the Xia Dynasty was real, and it would be searched for and examined.
In the "History", it is also recorded that during the Xia Dynasty, there was a creature like "dragon" in the world, but later, for some reasons, the last 2 dragons on the earth were eaten by the Xia Dynasty people, so what is going on? Is this account in the Chronicle of History true or false?
There are many theories about the origin of the image of the dragon, one is from the crocodile, the other is from the snake, some people think it is from the pig, and even some people say that the earliest dragon was the lightning in the sky when it rained. Most experts now believe that dragons are totem complexes with snakes as the main body. It has the body of a snake, the head of a pig, the horns of a deer, the ears of a cow, the whiskers of a sheep, the claws of an eagle, and the scales of a fish, which are combined into a dragon totem.
In his three works "Fu Xi Kao", "Dragon Phoenix" and "Dragon Boat Examination", Mr. Pig Shou Long Wen Yiduo pointed out that Chinese known as "the descendant of the dragon" comes from the legend of the Yellow Emperor's era. After the Yellow Emperor defeated Xuanyou and unified the Central Plains, its symbols were combined with the iconic motifs of other clans that were annexed. Such as the logo pattern of the bird, the logo of the horse, the logo of the deer, the logo of the snake, the logo of the cow, the logo of the fish, etc. Finally, it was spun together into a "dragon", a virtual comprehensive deity. Later, the image of the "dragon" began to appear in various patterns, and gradually became the emperor's Fu Rui. According to legend, Emperor Yan was born of a woman named Deng who felt the "divine dragon" in the sky, the Yellow Emperor was born with the sense of treasure "Beidou", emperor Yao was born of the "Red Dragon" of Qingdu Sense, and the ancestor was the descendant of the dragon, so the descendants of the Chinese nation are the "descendants of the dragon".
Folklore says that the Xia Dynasty people ate the last 2 dragons, is it true or false?
According to the records in the "Records of History", during the Xia Dynasty, there was a man named Kong Jia, kong Jia was very fond of dragons, so he raised a female dragon and a male dragon, and also hired a person to specially breed and take care of these two dragons.
However, because the hired person is not professional, which led to not long, one of the female dragons died of illness, which only left the male dragon, at this time, the person who raised the dragon, worried that he would be punished by Kong Jia, so he cooked the dead mother dragon into food, did not expect that after Kong Jia ate, he felt that the dragon meat was very delicious, not only did not get angry, but also remembered the taste of dragon meat.
So, one day Kong Jia was hungry and wanted to eat dragon meat, so he killed the male dragon that was originally untamed and difficult to tame, so that the last two remaining dragons on the earth were also eaten, so that after that, the dragon became a non-existent animal.
So, is this legendary content really true? Although it is a story recorded from the "History of History", the content in the "History" is not all true, which means that the story of "Kong Jia eating the dragon" will not be true in the high probability.
And until now, there is no evidence to prove that dragons are real species, so this folklore can be said to be a story made up by people. Of course, there is another possibility, that is, Kong Jia really ate some kind of animal, but this animal is not a real dragon. Green Dragon: One of the "Four Saints", "Four Elephants" (Green Dragon, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu) and "Four Spirits of Heaven", also known as the Dragon, representing the East, cyan, so it is called "Oriental Green Dragon".
Qinglong Yinglong: Also known as the Flying Dragon, also known as the Yellow Dragon and the Old Dragon, it is the ancestral dragon and the real dragon in mythology. The dragon with wings on its back, the documentary record of Ying Long is found in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which says that Ying Long killed You, Kwa Father, and even opened up the world and created the world. In some Pangu myths, it is also said that she raised Pangu. It is said that the concubine of the Eastern Emperor Taiyi was Ying Long, who gave birth to a phoenix and a unicorn, and the son of the Candle Dragon was killed at the cliff of Zhongshan. According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas and the Jingzhou Zhan, "The Ying Dragon is the Yellow Dragon, and the Yellow Dragon is the God of Xuanyuan Star, and the Concubine of the Heavenly Queen." 虺 (虺): According to the Book of Shuyi: "Five hundred years of 虺 turned into jiao, and jiao of a thousand years turned into a dragon." "It's the infancy of the dragon. Qiú :虬龙 is a horned little dragon in ancient legends, a hornless juvenile dragon. "Speaking of Words": The Dragon Without Horns. Each of these works is a dragon with horns. Now yiyun clubhouse is correct. However, the rhyme will still be wrong for many subwords. Li Shan's annotation "Ganquan Fu" quotes the "Shuowen" 虬, the dragon without horns. Chī (chī): A serpent-like creature of the genus Dragon, it is a hornless dragonoid creature. The dragon and the yellow north are called the land of the earth.
Ying Dragon Jiao (jiāo): Generally refers to a scaled dragon that can flood. Horned Dragon: Refers to a horned dragon. According to the Book of Narratives, "Jiao's thousand years turned into a dragon, and the dragon's five hundred years became a horned dragon." Fire Dragon: The Draft History of the Qing Dynasty says: "There are dragons in the floating mountains that fly into the folk buildings, and the smoke rises and the buildings burn", "On May 27, 2006, the Red Dragon of Yezhou was seen in the Zhangti Liangchuan Wall." On the seventh day of the first month of June, the Gaoping Fire Dragon was seen in Shimu Village" and "In June of the 56th year, the Juzhou Red Dragon was seen in Dragon King Yu, first large and then small, several inches long, and the grass and trees passed were like burning.". Dragon: Refers to a dragon that lies on the ground and has not ascended to heaven, and the shape of the dragon is coiled around. In ancient Chinese architecture, the dragon coiled on the pillar and the dragon on the decorative beam and on the ceiling were customarily called the dragon. In the Taiping Imperial Records, there is another interpretation of the dragon: "The dragon, with its body length of four feet, blue and black, with a red belt like a brocade, often goes down with the water and enters the sea." Poisonous, wounded is dead. "Mix the dragon with the dragon and the snake and the like." Cloud Dragon: A dragon entangled in clouds. Wanglong: A dragon with a lateral head. Xinglong: Legend has it that the carp transforms into a dragon, and when the dragon reaches a certain realm, it will transform into a dragon. Ichthyosaurus: The Ichthyosaurus is a dragon with a dragon's head and fish body, and it is also a form of "dragon-fish interchange", which has existed since ancient times. In the "Saying Garden", there is a record of "the cold abyss under the white dragon in the past turned into a fish", and the folk carp jumping the dragon gate tells the relationship between the dragonfish and the mutual change.
Ichthyosaurus Mirage: The mirage inhabits the coast or the mouth of a large river, looks a lot like a dragon, and may be one of them. The mirage has the incredible ability to see all sorts of apparitions from the breath that comes out of its mouth. Most of these apparitions are pavilions, luxuries that no one has ever seen before, and from the windows you can see people in gorgeous clothes moving. This is often referred to as a mirage. In addition, in some texts, the "derivatives" of dragons are also recorded, such as the "Five Miscellaneous Tricks": dragons are the most obscene, so when they have sex with cattle, they will give birth to lin; if they have sex with pigs, they will give birth to elephants; if they have sex with horses, they will give birth to dragon horses... Although we have never seen this animal, it seems that people have worshipped dragons in particular since ancient times, especially our Chinese children are even more for the descendants of dragons, so dragons are considered to be a sacred beast and have a supreme status. However, everyone knows that this animal should not have appeared, and before it was only an ordinary dinosaur, which is still different from the dragons in our mythology. When it comes to this kind of dragon in mythology, the first thing that comes to mind is that they can go to heaven and earth and can breathe fire, which should be the dragon that has appeared in many science fiction novels. If they really exist, their fire-breathing skills require nature to give them some special tools so that they can show this cool side very well.
It is not so simple for a dragon to breathe fire, so to breathe fire it must meet some conditions, and in nature now, it can actually find all these basic conditions it needs, that is, it can obtain these conditions to achieve the goal of spitting fire. Of course, if a dragon wants to breathe fire, it must be able to ignite a flame, and it must be able to have enough fuel and oxygen, which is a common gas, because oxygen is contained in the atmosphere of our earth. In addition to oxygen, there are two other conditions that must also be met, such as the need to ignite the flame of the tool, ignition generally requires some flint and steel, scientists said that if the dragon and the bird have a common organ can store these special rocks, then it can trigger Mars, because if they can swallow these rocks, after swallowing may collide with the body, of course, it is easy to cause Mars. Of course, in addition to this method, there are actually some other chemicals, which do not need such a method to produce sparks, such as iridium, which is a relatively rare element, but this element is easy to burst into flames when in contact with air. However, although this element exists, it is very uncommon. There is also a way, that is, if the dragon lives in a cave and is surrounded by rocks, then they can obtain a lot of iron, and they can react with hydrogen sulfide, which will produce iron sulfide, which is easy to explode when they combine with air. In addition to these, there is also a spark of electricity, organisms in the nerve activity or muscle activity will be accompanied by the production of bioelectric current, and such a powerful creature as the dragon, if they can produce a strong enough current, behind their throat if there are two small tissues, in the gap, between the two tissue blocks there is a continuous current through them, then when the fuel passes through them can ignite them and emit flames.
So, what exactly does Kong Jia eat?
Many researchers believe that there is a fiction about the image of the dragon, may come from some known animal, the current mainstream view is that it is very likely that the ancients regarded the Yangtze crocodile as a dragon, on the basis of the Yangtze crocodile, carried out artistic processing and creation. For example, there are ancient records that Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty once shot a "dragon" during a parade, but after later research, researchers speculated that it was most likely to shoot a Yangzi crocodile.
And in some of the excavated cultural relics in the ancient period, through the study of the image of the dragon, it is also closer to the form of the Yangtze crocodile, especially the instruments used by some ancient emperors, many of which are also made of crocodile skin, so if the story of "Kong Jia eating the dragon" recorded in the "History" is true, then the most likely to be eaten is the Yangtze crocodile that was once a large number and widely distributed in the mainland.
From this, it can be inferred that in fact, the dragon is indeed a mythical beast invented by the ancient ancestors, and everyone does not need to obsessively search for the whereabouts of the dragon, because it does not exist in itself, you say?
Since then, the dragon has become a symbol of the Chinese emperor, and even the status relationship is determined through more specific image distinctions of the dragon. The dragon robe of the Emperor of the Central Plains - the dragons on it are all five toes, which is what we often call the "five-clawed golden dragon" now. The Korean "dragon" can only be four, and the Japanese "dragon" is three. The five-clawed golden dragon became a symbol of the emperor, and the general royal family could not use it.