What is the difference between the dragons of the East and the dragons of the West? Why is the Western Dragon called a demon?
Have you found that our culture and Western culture often have conflicts, leaving aside ideology, let's not talk about it, just talk about the gods and ghosts recorded in myths and legends, generally speaking, they are called demons in the West, and in the East they are called gods, such as Nuwa in our country as the creation god, and the West as a demon (Eden viper), today we do not talk about anything else, we only talk about the dragon in myths and legends.
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Regarding the dragon, an animal that is only recorded in the legend, I believe that our country is the earliest, because it appears on the bronze and jade of Xia Shang, in addition to the totem of my Chinese nation, in the five elements, the dragon belongs to Aoki, which is a symbol of life, and in the legend, the dragon is the symbol of auspiciousness, and we are the descendants of the dragon.
Not only that, this dragon in the ancient imperial despotism, that is a special symbol of the royal family, the earliest legend is that in the late Qin period, Han Gaozu Liu Bang was reincarnated by the Red Emperor (Red Dragon), and later every Central Plains Dynasty, is based on the dragon as the symbol of the royal family, because of the strict hierarchy at that time, the common people do not dare to call themselves the descendants of the dragon at will, which is the crime of killing the head.
In China's ancient books, the records of dragons are also dazzling, all kinds of dragons, such as Ying Dragon, Green Dragon, Dragon Dragon, Yellow Dragon, Jiaolong, etc., and these dragons are distinguished by the number of claws, such as the former emperors, all described by the five-clawed golden dragon, if the combat effectiveness, combined with the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and other pre-Qin legends and stories, the first place is the candle dragon, which is well-deserved.
The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" has been recorded, followed by Bingyi, legend has it that this Bingyi is an ice dragon cultivating on the Kunlun Mountain, the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" is also mentioned by name, it is said that the Ying Dragon has also been about to fight, the fight is a landslide, the sun and the moon are unrelenting, after the Ying Dragon was defeated and retreated, and the Ying Dragon we mentioned has wings, it is generally believed that the dragon in the Western population is the image of the Ying Dragon, so why do Westerners call the dragon the evil dragon and the demon dragon?
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In the West, there are many dragons, but the overall image is winged and flame-devouring, such as Nidhogg who devours the World Tree in Northern Europe, Loki's eldest son, the Earthly Python, the second son Yemengard, the Great Red Dragon, and the black dragon Ankara gang and Smaug in the Lord of the Rings. However, the biggest similarity between these Western dragons and the Eastern Dragons is that they have great power and mana, and the difference is that the Western Dragons are often evil.
What is more interesting is that the image of western dragons is basically fixed as poisonous, fire-breathing, bat-like, with huge wings, a big belly, a strange appearance, and they are even more greedy, cunning, and cruel than humans. They have been described as preferring to live in huge caves, craters, and lakes or oceans, often feeding on people or livestock, and preferring to stay in places where they are stored, managed, and treasured. It is a symbol of greed and plunder, and if someone violates him, he will retaliate wildly, as we can see from the Lord of the Rings In The Battle of the Five Armies.
As for the dragons of the East, many of them are born with magical powers, riding the clouds and riding the fog, walking through the clouds and stepping on the moon. The dragons of the East all live in the fairyland, although they do not ask about the world, but they have always protected the world, the clouds and rain, after all, the people take food as the sky, is it not that the dragons in the West are much worse than the dragons in the East?