In general, dragons are characterized by modern scientists as mythical virtual animals that cannot actually exist.
However, the records about dragons in Chinese history books are endless, leaving people at a loss.
Today, in addition to hundreds of "dragon sightings" in which dragons were only witnessed, we have specifically broken down those records of close encounters with dragons, such as catching dragons alive, killing dragons, obtaining the remains of dragon corpses and keels, etc.
Perhaps the most impressive story of capturing and killing a living dragon is the famous "Three Evils in the Week" story.
Zhou was a famous scholar in Wuzhong in the early years of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He is a young man who does not know how to love himself and hurts the village. Older, the prodigal son turned back and decided to solve the problems of the villagers.
However, the story of "Eliminating the Three Evils in Zhou" is only "The World Speaks New Language" and not "The Book of Jin", so this case cannot be included in today's so-called dragon hunting incident.
Similarly, the "Zuo Chuan Zhao 29th Year" records that Duke Zhao sent Gongyan to present a dragon to the Duke of Qi Jing, and the "Gleaning Notes" records that the Nanxun Kingdom presented a male and female double-headed dragon to Emperor Shun. Let's start with the "History" at the top of the "Twenty-Five History".
"Shiji Feng Zen Book" shocked the record: Qin Wengong went to the countryside to hunt and shoot the black dragon!
The "New Book of Tang Five Elements Zhi III" records: In the last year of the Zhenyuan Dynasty (805 AD), Nishikawa Taishou Wei Gao shot a dragon more than ten feet long in Zijiang, put it in an iron cage, and entered the capital.
Note: In the fifth year of the nerve (920 AD), Liao Taizu Yelu Abaoji shot a black dragon in the West Building (around the left banner of Bahrain in present-day Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), and the keel was hidden in the back inner house.
Interestingly, the Yeru Abao machine shooting incident of Liao Taizu is not isolated evidence. When Shen Kuo, a native of the Northern Song Dynasty, heard about this when he sent the Khitan envoy, he witnessed the keel with his own eyes and witnessed the dragon tongue with his own eyes. "His tongue is like a sword".
Hong Hao was a famous minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, and after the fall of Liao, he was ordered to send an envoy to the Jin state. He was held in the desert for fifteen years. His works also record the shooting of dragons by Taizu of Liao.
Song Jin Da Ru Yuan Hao also included this matter in "Continuing Yi Jianzhi", saying: "The dragon has horns, a long tail and short feet, a length of five feet, a tongue length of two and a half inches, and lives in the inner library." Right Nan Zhenyou two years, still there. That is, from the fifth year of the early Shen Dynasty (920 AD) to the second year of Zhenyou (1214), when Emperor Xuanzong of Jin moved the capital to Kaifeng, Henan, the keel was well preserved.
Note from the "Qing History Manuscript": In July of the seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, a dragon appeared in front of Xianning County. It rained so hard that I couldn't jump. Some brave citizens tied the dragon's neck with ropes and dragged it through the streets.
The Supplement to the History of the Tang Dynasty records that in the last years of Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty, Kong Wei of Shuzhou sacrificed the keel, explaining the source of the keel in the performance, saying: "This is a clothed man named Hu Ju in Shanzheng Township, Tongcheng County, which belongs to Shuzhou, and the green dragon suddenly died in the courtyard of his house. It was April, there was a bamboo sieve for silkworms in the yard, and suddenly, Qinglong suddenly died in his yard. Thunderstorms are mixed, and blood rains fall on the bamboo sieve of silkworms. The blood does not stick to the strainer, but coagulates into blood beads. You can pick it up and put it in the palm of your hand, but it's cold and makes people feel a piercing pain. The dragon died after falling from the sky. When he cut open, he found a large wound in his throat. This dragon is more than ten feet long. The scales on the dragon's body resemble fish scales. The beard is two feet long, and the feet are covered with red cornea. Both horns are two feet long. At that time, the envoy of Dayuncang was notified and the troops were commanded to send the dead dragon to Shuzhou. The dragon meat was too heavy and inconvenient to transport the whole piece, so it was cut into dozens of pieces and transported to the state capital.
In modern times, the most famous is the Yingkou Dragon Fall Incident on August 8, 1934, when a dead and decaying dragon was found, and the incident was widely spread. You can still see the photos taken at that time from the preserved Shengjing Times.
The refrigerator was originally stored at Yingkou Middle School, but was lost during the war a few years later.
Today, there are specimens of real dragons preserved in Zuiryuji Temple, Naniwa-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is said that it was brought back from China in the fourth year of the Meiji era, and it has a history of more than 370 years. It is a young dragon, about 1 meter long, with horns on its head, long whiskers on the beak, large eyes, and three claws. The hind legs are shortened by degeneration and the back is snake-shaped. The whole body is covered with scales and coated with gold paint, and it is a specimen made of antiseptic treatment.
It is said that a Chinese farmer found the baby dragon while passing by the river. The dragon is already dying. He hit it with a wooden stick and killed it. He packed it in a cloth bag and took it to the port to sell to a Japanese merchant. Arrive.
Japan has evidence of dragons, but what about China?
In June last year (2016), someone found a fossils of "Canglong" in Xiaohegou on Xiongping, Yunnan Town.
However, after joint analysis and research by experts from the Beijing Institute of Paleontology, this fossil is actually a Permian-scale tree fossil 300 million to 250 million years ago.
However, the Xingwei Paleontological Fossil Museum in Anshun City, Guizhou Province, has a fossil "New Chinese Dragon", which is very similar to the legendary dragon and has attracted the attention of paleontologists.