Why is it always said that Chinese is the descendant of the dragon?
Early on, one theory was that the Busan conjunction originated from the Yellow Emperor. The "History of the Five Emperors" records that after defeating Emperor Yan and Xuan You, the Yellow Emperor toured the four directions and "fit in with Busan". This "fit" not only unified the letters of the military orders of the various tribes and established a political alliance, but also took some elements from the original totems of each tribe and combined them to create a new animal image - the dragon.
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As a result, the tribes living in the Central Plains have a common totem, that is, the dragon, and the history of unifying Chinese civilization began, so it is called the Chinese "the descendant of the dragon".
Although this story explains how dragons that existed outside the natural world became the ancestors of the Chinese nation, this theory has been impacted by the image of dragons in prehistoric cultural sites found in modern times.
Some experts believe that the dragon totem evolved from the snake, and we naturally became the "descendants of the dragon".
In fact, the idea of the dragon's descendants did not catch on until after the May Fourth Movement.
But we can find that the Chinese god of creation, Fuxi Nuwa, is the image of the human-headed snake god.
Through historical data, it can be found that the snake totem is widely distributed, initially mainly concentrated in the southeast and southwest of the mainland; in the continuous migration of thousands of years, the cultures of various ethnic groups have blended with each other, and the snake totem has spread throughout the north and south of the Yangtze River.
In areas where the snake is used as a totem, it is generally believed that "snake" is the prototype of "dragon", and "dragon" is the divine manifestation of "snake".
Therefore, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, the family snake is called "Canglong", "Tianlong", "Family Dragon" and so on.
So why do we say we are descendants of the dragon?
Because dragons have a special place in China.
Every year on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, it is the mainland's folk traditional festival "Dragon Head", also known as the Green Dragon Festival and the Spring Dragon Festival.
"Dragon Head" originated from ancient Chinese astronomy. The saying "the dragon looks up" is related to the Eastern Green Dragon. Ancient China used the Twenty-Eight Houses to indicate the position of the sun, moon, stars in the sky and to judge the seasons. The horns, horns, horns, kryptons, rooms, hearts, tails, and ji of the twenty-eight houses form a complete dragon-shaped constellation, of which the horns resemble the horns of a dragon. After the spring breeze in February, the "Dragon's Horn Star" appears from the eastern horizon at dusk, and the dragon's entire body is still hidden below the horizon, like a dragon began to show its head, so it is called "Dragon Heads Up".
"Erya Shi Tian" said: "Long rain is called adultery". In ancient times, the wind and rain were not smooth every year, so people mistakenly believed that the dragon was a god who could stir up clouds and rain. Therefore, the dragon is the most important rain god in the ancient Chinese mythological system.
Perhaps, it is in this long-term worship that the great spirit of the Chinese nation has been formed, and the dragon is an image creature representing the Chinese nation, giving it a unique meaning.