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Dragon is an animal in the ancient mythology of China, the leader of scale worms and one of the symbols of the Chinese nation. According to legend, dragons can fly, be good at change, call the wind and rain, etc. , tied with Phoenix and Kirin as auspicious, which mainly implied imperial power in ancient times; Fairy tales have the finishing touch, what makes the sea noisy, Sun Moon Lake and so on.
Er Ya Yi records that "horns are like deer, heads are like camels, eyes are like rabbits, necks are like snakes, bellies are like slugs, scales are like fish, claws are like eagles, palms are like tigers, ears are like cows", and Lun Heng records that "secular paintings are like dragons, and horseheads are like snakes"; According to Huainanzi, there are three kinds of dragons: the dragon, the pterosaur, the snake dragon, the dragon and the snail dragon five. Dragon symbolizes auspiciousness, jubilation, unity, enterprising and soaring. Dragon dancing expresses people's good wish to fly like a dragon.
The historical origin of dragons
Sima Zhen's Supplementary Biography was preceded by Fuxi's snakehead, but in the end he said that "those who have it are called dragon masters". According to "Hanshu Weishu", Fu is the first in virtue and the first among the hundred kings. Fu is a Qinglong person. Yandi Shennong takes fire as the king, red dragon; The Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan takes Tude as the king and is called Huanglong.
Xu Shen's "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" in the Eastern Han Dynasty contains: "The dragon, the scale worm's length, can be quiet and bright, can be thin and huge, can be short and long, the vernal equinox reaches the sky, and the autumn equinox is deep." Dong Yu, a painter in the Song Dynasty, thought that dragons "have horns like deer, heads like cattle, eyes like shrimp, mouths like donkeys, bellies like snakes, scales like fish, feet like phoenix, beards like people and ears like elephants."