In ancient times, people feared nature and worshiped divine power, so they created such an idol that can call the wind and rain and have boundless power, worship it and pray for peace. For thousands of years, the dragon has been mysterious and sacred in people's minds, and has gradually become a totem representative of the common respect of the Chinese nation, and the legend of the dragon is a cultural treasure house of Chinese folk.
Lock Longjing Story (1/7)
During the Ming Dynasty, the Dragon King wanted to flood the entire city of Beijing with heavy rain, and Liu Bowen used a spell to subdue the Dragon King and locked the Dragon King in a deep well with a thick chain, and said that when the bridge needed to be rebuilt in the past, he would release the Dragon King from it. After a long time, people still did not rebuild the bridge, but built a Yue King temple on the well and named it Beixin Bridge, and since then, the dragon king who was suppressed in the well has never had the opportunity to see the light of day again.
When Liu Bowen suppressed the Dragon King, he used a very magical iron chain, it is said that there is nothing mysterious about locking the dragon well, but this iron chain is a very important thing. People have always been very taboo about anything that may cause damage to Suolongjing, and the chains in Suolongjing have also shown their powerful magic.
When Japan invaded China and launched a war, Japanese soldiers forced local people to pull out the iron chain in the lock dragon well, but no matter how long people pulled it, they could not see the top of the iron chain. When pulling the chains, people saw that the water in the well began to churn and turn black, and there was a fishy smell of fish, shrimp and carcasses decomposing, and the Japanese had no choice but to stop.
During the New China period, a department store was built in the area where Suolongjing was located, and Suolongjing was buried for the construction at that time, but the large iron chain in Suolongjing was not touched.
In 2004, Beijing wanted to build Metro Line 5, but it had to pass through Suolongjing on the way, so it planned to demolish the well, but at the beginning of construction, it encountered a series of hitherto unknown troubles, and finally had to detour a few kilometers to build Metro Line 5.
Keel specimen from Zuiryuji Temple, Osaka, Japan (2/7)
It is said that this dragon specimen was extradited by China around the fourth year of the Meiji era (1871 AD), when Chinese fishermen, while passing by the riverbank, met a dying dragon, so they knocked it unconscious and sold it to a Japanese merchant, who in turn offered the dragon to General Meizawa.
General Mingze couldn't put it down, in order not to let it escape, he also built a cage, but the dragon's injuries became more and more serious, and it didn't take long to die, and General Mingze also had a serious illness after the dragon died, he thought that the dragon's spirit did not rest, so he sent the dragon to Ruilong Temple.
The temple lord embalmed the dragon and painted it gold in order to make it look more majestic. This dragon is about 1 meter long, with horns on the head, and the dragon's teeth are clearly visible on the mouth, which is very similar to the dragon in our Chinese legend, and some relevant experts in Japan said that this dragon may be a real dragon.
1934 Yingchuan Dragon Fall Incident (3/7)
Yingchuan is the lower reaches of the Daliao River, including the river in Yingkou City and the area around Dawa County in Panjin City. In early July 1934, a living dragon fell upstream of Yingkou Tianzhuangtai. According to witnesses, the dragon is very similar in appearance to the dragon on the painting, with four claws and scales, two long whiskers on the mouth, large eyes protruding, and a length of about 10 meters. However, apparently the dragon was seriously ill and could not fly, so he could only curl up on the ground. The local people believed that the dragon fell from the sky as a good omen, so people used reed mats to build pergolas and water for it, and the temple monks worked on it every day, and after a few days it disappeared.
It was rediscovered 1 month later, but it had turned into a pile of white bones in a reed. At that time, the pseudo-Yingkou No. 6 Police Station transported the keel to the open space near the West Customs Terminal and displayed it for several days. The "Shengjing Times" also sent people to interview, and published the "Yingchuan Falling Dragon" newsletter article, which caused a sensation for a while, so that visitors from afar came endlessly. The skeleton was later kept as a specimen at a normal school in Yingkou, but its whereabouts are still unknown due to social chaos during the war.
1944 Songhuajiang Chenjia Weizi Village Dragon Fall Incident (4/7)
In August 1944, in Chenjiawizi Village, Zhaoyuan County, a villager was traveling when he suddenly found a huge black creature on the beach of the Songhua River. It is pitch black, more than ten meters long, scaly all over, its head as big as an ox, and its four feet are deeply sunk into the dirt. The neck is slightly square, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, with long horns on the forehead and a beard on the side of the mouth, which looks exactly like the dragon in myths and legends.
At this time, the monster was lying on the beach, its body up and down, its mouth closed one by one, and it was obviously on its deathbed. The villagers were amazed and hurried back to the village to call for someone, and it didn't take long for the story to be known. The villagers rushed to the Songhua River, and the scale reached hundreds of people, all of whom wanted to see the real dragon. Just when everyone was talking about the black dragon, the sky suddenly became cloudy, and after a while, it rained beans-sized rain.
The villagers rushed to the village, and heavy rain fell all night, causing the water level of the Songhua River to soar and rush to the shore. But strangely, the village of Chenjiawizi, near the banks of the Songhua River, ended up unharmed. Early the next morning, the heavy rain faded, and the people rushed to the beach again, only to find that the black dragon had disappeared. Only a deep ditch remained at the place where the dragon fell, and the sand smelled thick and fishy.
Locals said the dragon took advantage of the heavy rain and flew away that night, disappearing.
2000 Dragon Fall in Heishan Zi Village, Changle County, Shandong Province (5/7)
This village is called Heishan Zi Village, and it is located in Changle County, Shandong Province. One day in 2000, there was a sudden rainstorm in the village. The torrential rains made the already dangerous situation of this village even more precarious, so families hid in their houses and did not dare to go out. Moreover, after the rainstorm, the village is shrouded in black clouds, which looks very scary, maybe when you walk out of the house, you will be fascinated and will not be able to return home.
Just when every family did not dare to go out, a young man walked out of the house. He did not take the situation in the village to heart, and in his opinion, heavy rain was just a normal thing. So he walked around the village very leisurely, and when he found that there was nothing else, the young man believed his idea even more. After walking out of the village, he was surprised to find something shocking, he saw two dragons lying on their stomachs outside the village. These two living dragons, one black and one white. He was lying on the ground, exactly as the young man saw in the painting. He couldn't believe the facts in front of him, and after rubbing his eyes with his hands, he was convinced that this was happening in front of his eyes. So he quickly ran back to the village and told the villagers loudly that there were two dragons outside the village.
When the villagers heard what the young man said, they didn't believe it at first, until the young man brought them outside the village to see the two big dragons, and the villagers believed what he said. Outside the village, the news of the falling dragon became sensational news after being quickly publicized by the villagers. The villagers in the surrounding villages also hurried over to see the dragon, and this matter was also known by the local government and relevant personnel. Many people poured into the village to see the dragons. For a while, this Montenegrin sub-village went from being unattended to becoming a tourist mecca. People from all regions heard the news and went to the village.
Researchers specializing in the history of dragons also quickly went to this village to inspect the dragons, and they used professional terminology to communicate, and after saying some things that the villagers could not understand, the professionals gave an explanation, that is, these two are not dragons. Experts have dismissed the incident of the dragon falling. But the villagers in the village did not believe it, they thought that what was in front of them was that the dragon in front of them looked the same as in the painting, how could they say that they were not dragons? So the explanation given by the experts was not believed at the time.
Two dragons fell in the village of Montenegro, police and government personnel were busy maintaining order, and the villagers did not know how to protect them. One of the 70-year-old villagers who was well-informed asked the villagers to go to the village and get a few mats to set up a tent, and then used a cart to bring water, poured water on the mats with a hose, and let the water drip from the seams of the mats onto the dragon's body, and some villagers filled buckets with water and splashed them on the dragon's body. After tossing and turning like this, soon the white dragon recovered its strength and flew away all of a sudden. The police and government personnel at the scene did not know how the white dragon flew away, and people could not know what happened after the white dragon flew away, but the black dragon never flew away, and it is said that the black dragon did not fly away until August 2000, and it looks like it flew away after the wound healed.
Unearthed in 2007 is a two-horned new Chinese dragon (6/7)
The two "dragon horns" on the "New Chinese Dragon" stone unearthed in the new shop of Guanling, Guizhou, were discovered for the first time in the mainland, provided physical evidence for the long-horned dragon in ancient legends, and will provide new ideas for the research of the Chinese nation on the origin of the image of the dragon, which has great scientific and historical value.
According to experts, the dragon fossil in Guizhou Province belongs to the "New Chinese Dragon", which was unearthed in Xinpu Township, Guanling County, Anshun City in 1996. The fossil is very well preserved, with a total length of 7.6 meters, of which the head is 76 centimeters long, the neck length is 54 centimeters, the body length is 2.7 meters, the tail length is 3.7 meters, the body width is about 68 centimeters, the head is triangular, the mouth is 43 centimeters long, and the widest part of the head is about 32 centimeters. Dragon horns grow from the widest part of the head to the left and right, the double horns are symmetrical, about 27 centimeters long, slightly curved, this pair of "dragon horns" on the dragon's head, resembling the image of the dragon in ancient Chinese myths and legends.
2007 Gaoyou Lake Dragon Water Absorption Video Original Version (7/7)
Speaking of the Jiangsu Gaoyou dragon water absorption incident, it happened in 2007, it is said that at that time in the center of Gaoyou Lake in the west of Jiangsu Gaoyou City, there was a rare scene that had not been seen for decades, because of the tornado formed a water column up to kilometers high, water and sky (commonly known as "dragon water absorption"), the water level on the lake suddenly dropped several centimeters" for about 10 minutes and then disappeared, suddenly heavy rain poured, and the sky and earth were chaotic.
When the "dragon absorbs water" wonder in the center of Gaoyou Lake in the west of Gaoyou City, Jiangsu Province, it is suspected that a real dragon appears Please watch carefully at the beginning of the video, what is flying from right to left in the clouds. Some people in the audience were shouting "dragon ah", and then the original video of Gaoyou Long absorbing water circulated on the Internet, and it is said that the original version was blocked by CCTV after it was exposed at that time, so as not to cause panic among the masses.
How dragons fly without wings
Asuka has air sacs in its body to reduce weight, what if dragons also have air sacs in their bodies? What if the air bag is lighter than air? Hydrogen, for example, is that already half the battle?
So, how is hydrogen produced in living organisms? Ancient books record that dragons have no foot of water, can not ascend to heaven, dragons can not fly without water, and water can be electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen! Isn't it a coincidence that the dragon is one step closer to successfully flying.
Is it possible to electrolyze water in an organism? If the bioelectricity that is ubiquitous in living things is too weak, what about electric rays? If dragons also have the ability to generate electricity like electric rays, is it possible to electrolyze water?
Then take advantage of clouds with high water vapor density, such as swimming in water. In the records of ancient books, the appearance of dragons is often accompanied by dark clouds and heavy rainstorms under black pressure, so there are people who worship the temple of the dragon king to ask for rain. If you have never seen the dragon in the sky and the large-scale rainfall that accompanies it, why did you build the Dragon King Temple, worship the Dragon King for rain, and form the saying "the water washed the Dragon King Temple"?
It can be seen that dragons need water or even a large amount of water to fly in the sky, but the ancients may have reversed cause and effect - it was not the dragon that brought precipitation, but the dragon used the water-rich clouds to migrate.