The dragon in the Chinese zodiac is a legendary mythical animal, he can rise in the clouds and rain can turn over the river and the sea, Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "the dragon has nine resemblances": the head is like a camel, the horns are like a deer, the eyes are like rabbits, the ears are like cattle, the neck is like a snake, the abdomen is like a mirage, the scales are like a carp, the claws are like eagles, the palms are like tigers, and there are eighty-one scales on the back, there are whiskers next to the mouth, there are pearls under the chin, and there are reverse scales under the throat. The "Guangya" records that those with scales are called dragons, those with wings are called Ying dragons, those with horns are called dragons, and those without horns are called dragons. The Chinese people worship dragons very much, so does the dragon really exist?
The descendants of the Chinese nation all think of themselves as the descendants of the dragon, and there are also dragons in the zodiac, which makes people believe that dragons are real, but through the history of the mainland for thousands of years, there are few descriptions of the true existence of dragons, on the contrary, dragons as myths and legends are not uncommon.
The event that most makes the world believe that there is a dragon is the modern Yingkou dragon fall incident in Liaoning. At about 10:00 a.m. on July 28, 1934, a dragon suddenly appeared over Yingkou. First, it suddenly fell, overturning three small boats, and then destroyed the factory buildings of Japanese companies, resulting in the deaths of nine people. Subsequently, it also damaged the surrounding railway, and even rolled the wagons on the railway off the tracks. This dragon fall incident was also published in the newspaper, and even the memory of the living old man, when he and the villagers saw the living dragon, when the dragon fell very close to the mouth of the sea, it was already dying, the villagers saw it and built a shed and watered it, and then a thunderstorm dragon disappeared, and finally heard that the dragon fell again, but it did not survive.
The source of the Chinese dragon.
The most credible claim to the origin of the Chinese dragon is probably the totem culture. In ancient times, human beings were very dependent on nature, living a fishing and hunting life, human beings have not yet been able to transform nature, each tribe according to the place, selected the species they consider more sacred for totem worship, at that time there was no written record, only the pattern from generation to generation of changes passed down.
The Fuxi clan of the Yellow River Basin has a totem of snakes, they are also described as human heads of snakes, their rule is relatively long, the territory involved is relatively large, and the later successor, the Yellow Emperor, gradually developed and expanded the Civilization of the Central Plains, he first united with the Yandi Shennong clan in the Yangtze River Basin, formed the Huaxia Alliance, and defeated the inseparable Xuan you. The emperor traveled in all directions, unifying the totems of each tribe, based on snakes, and gradually enveloping the totems of all parties, so that the dragon totem was formed.
There was no written record in the ancient period, the productive forces at that time were very weak, and the history at that time was handed down through graphics and oral transmission of human beings, so there was the Fuxi clan was the first dragon in Huaxia, called the Eastern Green Dragon, the Yan Emperor was called the Red Dragon, the Yellow Emperor was called the Yellow Dragon, the Yao Emperor in Yao Shunyu was born with the feeling of "Red Dragon", our ancestors were born of dragons, and since then the Chinese nation has regarded itself as the "descendant of the dragon".
The rulers of both slave society and feudal society wanted to consolidate their rule, and they tried all kinds of methods, of which thought control was undoubtedly the most stable and effective, and they deliberately portrayed themselves as the true dragon tianzi, believing that the descendants of the Chinese national dragon should obey the rule of the true dragon tianzi, and use the idea of divine right of the monarchy to paralyze the mind, so as to achieve the purpose of stabilizing the rule.
When Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was born, because he was very ugly, the forehead bulge was very ugly, his father was originally a Northern Zhou official, so he wanted to abandon Yang Jian, but he did not expect that there was a very famous face-to-face master at that time who saw Yang Jian's natural vision, and the dragon horn of The Birth will definitely become emperor in the future, so he advised the Yang family to cultivate Yang Jian well, and there will be great wealth and nobility in the future, and finally Yang Jian really replaced Northern Zhou, ending the division of the Northern and Southern Dynasties and establishing the Sui Dynasty.
The dragon is the symbol of Xiangrui, many people want to meet Xiangrui themselves, when we meet something that we have never seen before, we will unconsciously lean on the good side, hoping that we meet Xiangrui, so the dragon is witnessed from time to time.
In order to be able to consolidate his rule more effectively, the ancient emperors used the idea of divine empowerment of the monarchy to claim themselves as the true dragon heavenly son, hoping that the common people would support his rule, and do not think of overthrowing him, which is a means of the emperor, a means used to control people's hearts, so the emperors of all generations like to wear dragon robes, claiming to be true dragons, the purpose is to control everyone's thoughts and maintain the rule of feudal imperial power.