From ancient times to the present, our Chinese sons and daughters have always prided themselves on being the descendants of the dragon, and the dragon is a symbol of our Chinese nation, but it has always been considered a fictional image, but some people think that the dragon should be real, because the simplest point is that the twelve zodiac signs are real creatures in addition to the dragon capital.
So I think it's not just dragons that are fictional, and the dragon fossils found in Xinpu Township in 1996 seem to prove this.
In 1996, the villagers of Xinpu found a very strange creature in a forest, and after expert identification, it was found that it was a dragon fossil, which is a very rare species due to its early age, and experts also believe that it is most likely a dinosaur. However, in subsequent research, it was found that this dragon is different from the dragon we usually see, and it can be seen on the fossils that this dragon has a lot of scales on its body and its teeth are also very sharp. This is consistent with the characteristics of the age of dinosaurs. Therefore, many people think that this should be a species that appeared in ancient times, but as the research deepens, more strange places have been discovered. First of all, the fossils can be seen that it is not a dinosaur, but a reptile similar to a snake, and experts believe that this creature should be a lizard. Secondly, it can also be seen on the fossil that it is a reptile, but this reptile is different from the lizard we see, because it can be seen on the fossil that its body has a lot of scales, and the teeth are also very sharp, but the lizard's body does not have such characteristics.
Finally, experts also found a very strange phenomenon on the fossil, on the fossil can be seen is a human skeleton, and experts also based on this skeleton deduced that the creature on the fossil should be a person, not a dragon.
Experts also put forward their own views on this matter, because the general fossil is made of rock, but a bone is broken from it, which shows that the bone is not made of rock, but of a bone fragment. So on top of this bone is the skeleton of a person, not a dragon.
So later after expert research thought that this should be an animal, but some experts thought that this animal is likely to be some kind of bird, but this speculation was not confirmed, because in later studies it was found that this animal is only found in Yunnan, so experts speculate that it may be a Yunnan bird. Although the name of this bird is difficult to verify, we can be sure that it is a very rare bird.
There are also legends about dragons in the famous legends of ancient China, and it is said that after the success of Dayu's water control that year, in order to commemorate the contribution made by Dayu to control water, this day was designated as the summer calendar. That is, the day of the first day of June in the summer calendar, which was called "the dragon raised its head" by later generations. Although this is just a legend, it gives us a good idea of the image of the dragon.
Later, it was also recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", in which it was said: "Yu gave birth to nine sons and gave birth to twelve Yan." And the nine sons of Yu, the twelve of them can do the things of the mountains, so they are called dragons", which talks about the "夔", the shape of the 夔 is very similar to the dragon, and in ancient times it was considered a divine beast, so many people think that the 夔 is a dragon.
And in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" also recorded the phrase "concubine body and human face", according to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" said "concubine body human head, yellow clothes, holding jade axe". We can know that in ancient times there were two kinds of creatures: the dragon and the dragon. Although real dragons are no longer possible, there are legends about dragons in mythology.
It is recorded in "Journey to the West" that it is said that when the Tang monk Xitian took the scriptures, he once passed by the Flame Mountain, because the flame of the Flame Mountain was very large, so the Tang monk was trapped here, and later Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie thought of a way, the two people turned into two dragons respectively, and then carried the Tang monk over. It can be seen that Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie were also human beings like us now.
There is another saying in the ancient world that the dragon is not the creature we imagine, but an ancient mythical beast. There is also a saying that the dragon is a reptile in ancient times, so there is the saying "dragon born of nine sons". However, later some experts believed that dragons did not exist, because many animal fossils were found to have dragon-like patterns in later archaeological research. But in the ancient legends of the continent, dragons really existed, and there are many records about dragons.
It is said that during the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, in order to celebrate their defeat of the Chu state, the people of the Chu state held a grand banquet, and at that time, a Chu country man came up with a way to curry favor with his master, that is, to perform a dance called "dragon dance" at the banquet. This dance was used to worship the king of Chu at that time. At that time, when performing the "Dragon Dance", because the performance was very successful, the people of Chu considered themselves to be the true dragon Tianzi.
Later, during the Han Dynasty, a man named Sima Qian wrote a book called "Shiji", which recorded many stories about dragons, including the phrase "dragon gave birth to nine sons". And in this book, it is also recorded that "the Yellow Emperor gave birth to Qingyang". In these stories, it can be seen that the dragon is a very sacred creature, and there are many legends about the dragon in ancient times, and these legends also show that the dragon is a real creature.
In modern times, with the deepening of archaeology, some patterns similar to dragons have been found in some ancient sites on the mainland, and some cultural relics experts believe that these patterns are the image of the dragon, and these cultural relics are also engraved with patterns similar to dragons. However, after the research of experts, it was found that these patterns were a depiction of natural phenomena by the ancients, and this depiction did not represent the real dragon.