The dragon is an animal that appears in Chinese myths and legends and is found in various regions of the Chinese character culture circle. As a general term: dragon is a huge type of mythical creature with the characteristics of snakes and lizards, which is found in myths and legends all over the world. Legend has it that the ancestors of Chinese mankind, Fuxi and Nüwa, were both dragon-bodied human heads (or snake-bodied human heads). The ancestors of the Chinese nation, the YanDi and the Yellow Emperor, are said to have a close relationship with the dragon, and it is said that the Yandi was born for his mother's induction of the "divine dragon head" and became a red dragon after death. Liu Bang claimed to be the son of his mother and dragon. These legends show that Chinese has been closely associated with dragons since ancient times, but they do not directly state that Chinese is "the descendant of the dragon", and the term "descendant of the dragon" is not found in the historical records. The term "descendants of the dragon" became popular in 1978 with Hou Dejian's song "Descendants of the Dragon".
According to the Shang Dynasty oracle bones, there was a person called a dragon in the Fang Kingdom at that time, and the dragon may have been the earliest totem of this Fang Kingdom, representing the ancestors of the clan.
Unlike the Western dragon (often translated as "dragon") as a symbol of evil, the East Asian dragon is a symbol of divine auspiciousness. Among the ancient Chinese totems, there are many sculptures of dragons that are images of soaring clouds and flying for nine days.
The image of the dragon has always been said to be different, and according to the "Commentary on the Interpretation of Words", the appearance of the dragon is like a long insect with scales, which can be bright or dark, large or small, long or short, except for the description of the strip scales, other features are indefinite.
In the Guangya Shiyan, it is mentioned that there are four types of dragons: those with scales are called dragons, those with wings are called Yinglong, those with horns are called dragons, and those without horns are called dragons. There is also a saying that there are two horns for dragons, one horn for jiao, hornless for mantises, and no feet for flies [zhú].
The Eastern Han Dynasty scholar Wang Fu believes that the image of nine animals merging into one (also known as the nine different) is very close to the popular image today. However, there is another name that the dragon is composed of nine species of animals.
[1] Resembles a dragon rather than a dragon
Candle Dragon: A human-faced dragon with no feet.
Dragon: Hornless and yellow, like a dragon beast, and another is said to be a hornless female dragon.
Aolong: A large turtle in the sea, another said to be a fish, the dragon head fish body, the fish jumped at the dragon gate.
[2] Close relatives of the genus Dragon
虺 huǐ: A hydrophilic snake-like reptile. The word lizard is ancient, and the Jin Dynasty believes that the salamander refers to the salamander or crocodile like a lizard. The pit viper is known south of the River and Huai River, and the north of the River and Huai river is known as the viper. Five hundred years of decay turned into a dragon.
Mirage : Can exhale, resembles a large oyster, has the saying of a giant clam, or a dragon.
Unicorn: The male beast is a unicorn, and the female beast is a unicorn.
Dragon Horse: Horse body and dragon scales.
Jiaolong: There are scaly dragons that inhabit lakes and other places where water gathers.
[3] Dragon species
Dragon: Horned dragon, a hornless, small dragon. [qiú]
Dragon: Hornless, refers to a dragon lying on the ground.
Dragon: Horned, double-horned dragon. [qí]
Ying Long: Winged Ying Long.
[3] The symbol of the dragon
Qinglong: One of the four elephants in traditional Chinese culture, according to the Five Elements Theory, it is a spirit beast representing the East.
Dragon King: Taoist and Buddhist deity.
Red Dragon: One of the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas.
Yellow Dragon: A symbol of imperial power in ancient times.
Five-clawed Golden Dragon: Imperial power can only be used by the emperor.
Chen Rong's "Nine Dragon Diagram", ink on paper, 46.3 cm in length and 1096.4 cm in width, is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA. The history of the painting records that the dragon in this painting has a deep meaning of change. The whole picture of nine dragons is placed in the middle of dangerous mountain clouds and turbulent tides, and the different shapes jump up.
Blossom on Journey posted on 07-14 10:24
Yes, I also heard the old man say that when grandma was young, there was a big pit near grandma's house, and one night it rained heavily, and a huge creature fell into the pit, and it was dazzlingly bright, and the body was immersed in the pit, and the head and tail were exposed, and they were still gasping for breath, and the people in the village were afraid that he was dry, so they quickly took water to him, and soon he disappeared.
Jonny The Adventure on 07-14 11:33
My mother-in-law said that when they were young, they had to pass through a bamboo forest when they were studying private school, one night the storm and lightning were very frightening, in the morning she passed through the bamboo forest and smelled a scorched smell, and when she approached, she found that what was in the bamboo forest was burned, and there were some green scales larger than the palm of the hand scattered everywhere, and everyone said that the dragon was killed by lightning when it went to heaven.
Love Will See Posted on 07-15 15:13
My grandmother had seen the dragon, and he began to practice Buddhism at home after his 70s, and he was a layman. One morning she finished meditating and saw a red dragon passing by the window.
Here are a few examples of the deeds of Dade:
In July 1999, the Lotus Light Palace of Dongga Monastery held a grand opening ceremony, and in addition to Guru Dongga and his two Venerables, high monks and masters such as The Living Buddha, Guru Nian Long, and Dharma Mother Darjeram were all present at the Holy Land, as well as tens of thousands of devotees at home and abroad. The puja was presided over by Maju Rinpoche. On the first day of the festival, the sun, moon, and stars hung in the air at the same time, becoming a great spectacle; in the next few days, the Protector Dragon Heaven appeared, and various rays appeared in the sky frequently.
Once, in the Qinghai steppe, tens of thousands of believers attended a Great Festival, but due to the interference of the outer path, lightning and thunder, and the wind and rain, it was difficult for the festival to proceed smoothly, so Madrup Rinpoche appeared angry and screamed that the foreign path was bound to ambush it on the ground, and then threw the vajra pestle into the sky, and a blue dragon-shaped cloud fell down in response to the sound, fell by the river, and was sent away against the circumstances, and when the festival was completed, Rinpoche fang let him go. Miracles like this are unacceptable to ordinary people without personal experience, but they are indeed seen by tens of thousands of believers.
Author:10187050 Date:2010-7-10 21:59:55
Everyone is familiar with the word "dragon", there must be some who have seen it, and if you haven't seen it, look at my experience of seeing dragons.
When I was eleven or twelve years old, I saw not the tail or the head, but the whole one. It was summer, and on a cloudy day, the ground was very dry, and I watched it with my mother. When I saw it, my mother said that it was a dragon rainfall, which was nothing unusual (it seems that my mother has seen it many times, and she said that she has seen it many times). It was a cloudy day, the sky was gray, and when I was in the house, I heard my mother shouting that there was a dragon outside, telling me to come out of the rare (at that time, my mother was still very calm tone called me Oh). As soon as I ran out and looked up, I saw an old elderly guy hanging in mid-air, and I was excited when I saw it. I saw that its whole body was shrouded in clouds, but you could clearly see that it was turning, constantly turning, sometimes seeing things like claws scratching around, more than ten years have passed, and now I can't remember what the specific part of the head looks like, anyway, it is wrapped in clouds, the tail is far away, my mother said that the tail must be in my aunt's house, because my aunt's house has a big river, there is a lot of water, it can withstand the dragon to fetch water, she saw it when she was a child in the summer when I went to my aunt to play (my aunt is old, my aunt is old, So my aunt got married, my mom wasn't much older, and sometimes she would go to visit the door.) My mother said that when the ground is very dry and dry in the summer, the dragon may come out to the place where there is a lot of water to stir up the water and sprinkle it to the dry place, and said that she saw it once before and it would rain after a while, and a few fish fell, maybe the dragon stirred up the fish pond with more water. After watching for a while, my mother said that it was going to rain, and it would really rain after a while, it was very big, so we ran to the house, and after stopping the rain, we ran out and disappeared.
This is my real experience, and I have never made up half a sentence. To this day, I regret not having the tools to capture that spectacular moment. For the saying that "those who see the dragon die", I can tell you with practical actions that I am now alive and well, and I am not sick or sick. Dragons are auspicious gods, not as terrible as some miscellaneous books say, everyone says yes or no. Come and tell us about your experience. You can also talk about the term "dragon rainfall".
Author: Guangyin Reply Date: 2005-6-27 20:35:00 In order to give you a simple and clear introduction to the mystery of the Yingkou dragon and the keel, refer to more than ten related articles, comprehensively sorted out, welcome to discuss.
Yingkou Keel Mystery
Finishing: Light sound
In the first volume of the Yingkou City Chronicle, it is recorded: "On the afternoon of August 8 (1934), a farmer in Dongxiaojie on the north bank of the LiaoHe River found a giant animal with white bones, about 10 meters long, a corner on the left and right of the head, about 1 meter long, and a total of 29 sections of the spine. The Pseudo-Yingkou Sixth Bureau transported it to an open space near the West Customs Wharf for display for several days, and the number of people who came to visit it was endless.
Some elderly people recalled that the monster had appeared twice, the first 20 kilometers from the mouth of the sea.
Old Man Xiao Suqin: When she was 9 years old, her father drove a carriage for the landlord, and many people said that they found a "living dragon" in the upper reaches of the Tianzhuangtai, so they rushed there. Dad put her on horseback and helped her watch. The "dragon" she saw had a square head and a square brain, the eyes were very large, and it blinked, and the body was gray and white, bent and crouched on the ground, the tail was rolled up, and there were two claws extended at the abdomen, and what impressed her most was that she felt that this "dragon" was weak, his eyes were half open and half closed, and his eyes were a little red, and many people said that it was too hot, so they built a shed above the dragon to escape the heat, and some people carried water to pour water on it to let it "relieve the heat." Later, after a long period of heavy rain, the "dragon" disappeared.
At that time, the common people believed that the dragon descending from heaven was an auspicious thing, and some people used reed mats to give the monster tower pergola, and some carried water to pour water on the monster, in order to avoid the monster's body from drying. It is said that people are very active, and even lazy people on weekdays have gone to fetch water and water it. In the temple, many people and monks had to do it every day, and this continued until after another few days of heavy rain, the monster mysteriously disappeared.
However, after more than twenty consecutive days of heavy rain, this monster appeared strangely for the second time, this time in the reeds 10 kilometers from the mouth of the LiaoHe River, at this time it was no longer a living creature, but a strange and unpleasant corpse: According to the old man Yang Yishun, before the discovery of the "dragon" bone, I heard the adults say that there was always a crackling sound in the reeds, and there was also a cow-like cry, which sounded very dull, and the sound of struggle could be heard, and then there was no movement. At that time, the Yingkou area had been raining heavily for more than 40 consecutive days, the streets and roads were full of water, and some houses collapsed due to too much water. After the rain stopped, as the north wind blew through, the smell of emptiness was very strong, and a worker surnamed Lu who was guarding the reed pond looked for the strange smell, found a large area of reeds lying down, pulled it out and went in to take a look, and was startled: inside was a huge animal that had died! Frightened, the worker turned and ran, returning home and getting seriously ill. When the people heard about it, they went to see it together and reported it to the government of the time. At that time, the staff of an epidemic prevention hospital near the West Customs wore white coats and sprayed disinfectant water on the carcasses of the maggots. After the "dragon" bones were lifted out, 4 anchors were tied to ropes to form a circle around the bones for everyone to see.
Sun Zhengren: The light bone is not the original dragon type, the one painted and depicted is not that type, it is quite long, quite large head, two large horns more than one meter long, more than one meter three or four feet long, two long. Lying on the ground, the body is bent and curved, and it can be more than ten meters long.
Ma Guoxiang, the son of Ma Zichen, a famous orthopedic doctor in Yingkou City (who had seen "dragon" bones with his own eyes), remembers that his father once told him that when the bones were found, the flesh had not yet completely decayed, and it looked particularly like a "dragon".
When the reporter flipped through the "Shengjing Times" on August 12, 1934, he was surprised to find that this "dragon" actually had a "claw", and also used the "claw" to dig a pit of nearly 17 meters long and more than 6 meters wide, indicating that the "dragon" had struggled after it.
Related notes: "... The dragon's body is towering, the head is left and right, each has three armours, the spine is more than three inches wide, the ribs attached to the sides of the spine, each one is about five or six inches long, the tail is a vertical plate-shaped white bone tail, the whole is twenty-eight segments, each section is about a foot, the whole is a total of three zhang, the original dragon, there is a claw dug two zhang long five zhang of the soil pit, the pit along the claw mark clearly exists, until the keel still has tendons, until the skin and flesh are no longer visible. These features also further validate the perception that it is a dragon.
According to several elderly people, the relevant parties invited the old fishermen to identify them, but none of them knew the monster corpse. People are talking about it, and it is generally believed that it is a "dragon".
The Yingkou Pseudo-Sixth Xx Branch organized manpower, decomposed its bones, and transported them to the south bank, where they were placed in their original form on the empty field in front of the West Customs for people to visit.
At that time, the "Shengjing Times" sent people to interview, also known as "dragon", "heavenly dragon", "Yingchuan falling dragon", "giant dragon", etc., accompanied by photos, pictures and texts. Yingkou citizens rushed to watch, and nearby cities came to visit in an endless stream, so buying train tickets to and from Yingkou became nervous. Later, it was reported that Teacher Zhang of the Fishery and Fishing Department of Yingkou Fishery Senior High School judged that it was indeed a jiao.
● Five Dragons and the Green-Clad Gods Qing Dynasty [Ye Xian Zhi. Miscellaneous Notes] It is said that in Ye County, Henan Province, in 1503 AD, such an incident occurred: In the sixteenth year of Ming Hongzhi, the five dragons hung ten miles north of the city, and after a long time, they fell to the ground, and the snakes could not rise. There were green-clad gods and men descending from the airborne dragons all around, and the clouds were obscure, and five dragons appeared in the air in the direction of the north of the city where they were lost, and then the five dragons fell to the ground together, seemingly powerless to fly away. At this time, a green-clad god-man descended from the air, and the five dragons surrounded the godsmen, and suddenly the sky was dark, the clouds rose and fogged, and the five dragons and the gods and men disappeared. ● The White Dragon and the God of Purple Clothing This story is similar to ye county, which took place in Pinghu, Zhejiang in September 1588 AD, and is found in the Qing Dynasty [Jiaxing Fu zhi, Xiang Yizhi]: Pinghu County has albino on the sea, red light half a day. Cultivating Shen Maoxiao, the head of the brother dragon is half hanging, the two corners smell the god of gold crown and purple clothing, and the sword stands, and the length is more than a foot. The dragon spits pearls under its jaw, and the ball is as big as a bucket. The witness to this incident was Shen Maoxiao, who was serving as a revisionist (historical official) in the DPRK. He saw a white dragon appear in the sea and sky, and the light emitted reflected half of the sky. Between the two corners of the dragon's head, he also stood to see a purple-clad god man wearing a golden crown, no more than thirty meters tall, holding a sword-like object in his hand. Under the dragon's head appeared a bright ball of pearlescent light, round and shaped like a bucket. ● See the white dragon on the banks of the Huangpu River In July 1608 AD on the banks of the Huangpu River in Songjiang County, Shanghai, there were also dragons like Pinghu Lake, and there were also gods on the dragon's head. Just twenty years late. Found in the Qing Dynasty [Songjiang Province from. Xiang Yizhi]: In June of the 36th year of the Wanli Calendar, The White Dragon was in Longhua Port in Huangpu, and the dragon's head had a god standing on it. ● Dragon cooling Ming Temple [Book of the Later Han Dynasty. The Five Elements Chronicle] writes: This sentence is quoted in the Qing Dynasty [Luoyang County Chronicle, Qian Yizhi] as black as a car cover bulge, Fenxun five colors, and the edict [Book of later Han] is more explicit. Ling Emperor Guang and June of the first year of Ding Ugly, there is black qi fall in the East Courtyard of the Wenming Hall of the North Palace, black as a car cover, Qi Fenxun, five colors, a head, a body length of more than ten zhang, shaped like a dragon. Emperor Ling, the Eastern Han Emperor Liu Hong, guanghe was one of the era names he used during his reign, Guanghe first year of The First Year of Ding Ugly, that is, July 1, 178 AD. The capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty was on the outskirts of present-day Luoyang, Henan, and the Wenming Hall may have been the residence of His Majesty the Emperor. In the east courtyard of the Wenming Hall, a huge black object fell from the air, like a circular car umbrella, and the body revealed a five-colored light in a rapid rotation, although it had a head, but it had no feet, no tail, like a dragon and not a dragon, reaching more than twenty meters long. ●[Yuan Shi. Wu Xing Zhi] Yun: By July of the 27th year of the Yuan, there was a dragon in Yidu Linbu County, which saw a dragon in Longshan, and the boulder weighed thousands of pounds and floated up in the air. To the year 27 AD. Linbu County is in present-day Shandong Province. A dragon appeared in Longshan, but unfortunately I don't know what it looks like. Its arrival was able to make a thousand pounds of boulders float up in the air. ● Twenty-four years after the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huang Long appeared in Chishui, Wuyang, stayed for nine days and left, when a temple was built and a monument was erected. ● In April of the first year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (345 AD), there were two dragons, one black and one white, appearing in Longshan. Prince Yan led his courtiers to hold a sacrifice more than 200 steps away from the dragon. ● In the local chronicles of the Ming and Qing dynasties, records of dragons are also found from time to time. According to the "Chronicle of Lin'an Province", in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631 AD), a giant dragon appeared in the Yilong Lake in the southeast of Shiping County, Yunnan, and the dragon appeared more than once in the Dragon Mountain and the Yilong Lake. Otherwise it would not have been known as "Dragon Mountain" and "Allosaurus Lake"! ● The "Supplement to the Year of Tang" records that on a certain day in the last year of Tang Xiantong, a green dragon fell in the territory of Tongcheng County, and died on the spot because of a throat injury. The dragon is more than ten feet long, with a body and a tail in half. The tail is flattened. Its scales resemble that of a fish, it has double horns on its head, a whisker that is two inches long, and a foot under its abdomen, with a red membrane on its feet. ● Lang Ying's "Seven Revision Drafts" records that in the last year of chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, a dragon fell on the beach in Xinhui County, Guangdong Province, and was beaten to death by fishermen. This dragon is about one person tall, dozens of feet long, resembling the dragon in the painting, with only a red belly. ● In the thirty-second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1162 AD), a dragon was found on the shore of Taibai Lake, with huge scales and long whiskers, a white belly and a green back, a fin on the back, and a high double horn on the head, which could smell fishy for miles. The local people covered its body with mats, and the government also sent people to sacrifice it personally. After a night of thunderstorms, the dragon disappeared. A deep ditch was left where it lay. ● The "Chronicle of Yongping Province" records that in the summer of the nineteenth year of Daoguang (1839 AD), a dragon landed in Laoting County in the lower reaches of the Luan River, and flies were everywhere. Local people set up tents to shield it from sunlight and constantly sprinkled its body with water. Three days later, in a heavy thunderstorm, the dragon left its place.
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