Another name for a growing dragon
虺: It is an early dragon, imagined by reptiles, snakes, as models, and is often in the water. "Five hundred years of dragons turn into dragons, and thousands of years of dragons." It is the juvenile of the dragon, which appeared on the bronze decoration of the Western Zhou Dynasty, but not much.
虬: Generally, the small dragon that does not have a horn is called a dragon, which is a growing dragon. Therefore, the ancient literature notes: "There are horns and dragons without horns." "Another says that young dragons are called flies after they give birth to horns. There are differences between the two statements. But they all call the growing dragon a false. Some people call the coiled dragon a false dragon, and the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu has the sentence "Qiu Pan Qian Yu Drama Sheep Intestine" in the poem "Title Qingyun Saying".
Cockroach: It is a serpent-like monster of the dragon genus, an early dragon without horns, and there is an account of "hornless dragons" in the "Guangya" collection. There are also two theories about the cockroach, one refers to the yellow hornless dragon, the other refers to the female dragon, in the "Book of Han , Sima Xiangru Biography" there is a "red ant, female dragon also" annotation, so in the unearthed Warring States jade pendant on the shape of the dragon and the ant complex for decoration, meaning male and female tail. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han Dynasties, bronze, jade carving, bronze mirror or architecture are often used for decoration, and its forms include single mantis, double mantis, three mantis, five mantises and even a variety of group of mites. Or as a badge, or as a ring, or as a book. In addition, there are various variations such as Bogu mantis and ring body mantis.
Jiao: Generally refers to a scaly dragon that can flood. Legend has it that when the dragon gets water, it can make clouds and fog and soar into space. It is often used in ancient texts as a metaphor for talented people getting the opportunity to perform. Regarding the origin and shape of the jiao, there are different theories in the classical literature, some say "dragon without horns and jiao", and some say "there are scales and dragons". Volume III of "Inker Swinging Rhinoceros" is more specific: jiaozhi is like a snake, its head is like a tiger, and the elderly are several zhang, mostly living under the stone caves of Xitan, and the sound is like the sound of cattle. If the jiao sees a pedestrian on the shore or in a valley, he will salivate in his mouth and make him fall into the water, that is, he will suck his blood under his armpit until the blood is exhausted. Shore people and boat people often suffer from it. In the Southern Dynasty Song Dynasty Song Liu Yiqing's "The New Language of the World", there is a story of Zhou Chu who entered the water for three days and three nights and returned. The dragon may be a crocodile.
Horned Dragon: Refers to a horned dragon. According to the Book of Shuyi, "Jiao's thousand years turned into a dragon, and the dragon became a horned dragon for five hundred years", and the horned dragon is the old man among the dragons.
Ying Long: Winged dragons are called Ying Dragons. According to the "Book of Narrative Differences", "the dragon is a horned dragon for five hundred years, and the dragon is a ying dragon for a thousand years", and the Ying dragon can be called the essence of the dragon, so it has grown wings. According to legend, Ying Long was the divine dragon of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times, and it once fought against Xuan You on the orders of the Yellow Emperor and became a hero by killing Xuan You. During the flood of Yu, the divine dragon once made a contribution to sweeping the ground with its tail and channeling the flood, this divine dragon is also called the Yellow Dragon, and the Yellow Dragon is the Ying Dragon, so the Ying Dragon is also the hero of Yu. Yinglong is characterized by two wings, scaly spines, a large and long head, a small nose, eyes and ears, large eye sockets, high eyebrow arches, sharp teeth, protruding forehead, large neck and abdomen, long tail tips, and strong limbs, like a winged Yangtze crocodile. In the jade carvings of the Warring States, stone carvings, paintings and lacquerware of the Han Dynasty, the image of Ying Long often appears.