What does the auspicious dragon symbolize?
The productivity of early society was low, and people lived in a harsh natural environment, unable to control the natural forces independently and unable to explain their own sources. They are full of illusions, longings and even fears about nature, and worship all kinds of natural or supernatural forces that are more powerful than human beings. This is the social foundation of totem and ghosts and gods. ?
The reason for the formation of dragon totem is the Busan symbol originated from the Yellow Emperor. According to Records of the Five Emperors, after defeating Emperor Yan and Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor visited all directions and "joined forces with Busan". This "symbol combination" not only unified the military symbols of various ministries and established a political alliance, but also combined some elements from the totem of primitive tribes to create a new animal image-dragon.
Since then, all tribes in the Central Plains have the same dragon totem, thus opening the history of unifying Chinese civilization. China people are all "descendants of dragons".
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The reason why the dragon has this cultural symbolic significance has a lot to do with the unparalleled magical power of legends and myths that the dragon flies in the sky, chases waves in the sea and calls for rain on the ground, but more importantly, it often becomes the "exclusive patent" of slaves in China, the supreme ruler of feudal society for thousands of years, and is synonymous with imperial power.
Therefore, the emperor calls himself "the real dragon emperor", his body is called "dragon body", his clothes are called "dragon robe", his chair is called "dragon chair", and his vehicle and boat are called "dragon chariot" and "dragon boat". In a word, everything related to their daily life is crowned with the word "dragon" to show their privileges.
The dragon has a long history of being linked with imperial power, starting from the Yellow Emperor. In the legendary era, the Yellow Emperor, who is related to the dragon, traveled around and observed the people's feelings. He had the copper of Shoushan mined, and then transported it to the foot of Jingshan to cast a tripod to commemorate his brilliant victory in the war with Chiyou. After a while, the tripod was finally cast, and the Yellow Emperor held a ceremony in Jingshan to celebrate the casting of the tripod.
Not only immortals from all walks of life were invited to the ceremony, but also people from all directions were invited. Everyone wants to see what the tripod cast by the Yellow Emperor looks like. When the time came, probably the emperor himself opened it and saw a bronze tripod as big as a jar shining with dazzling golden light in front of the man of God.
Everyone looked up and saw a vigorous Youlong carved on the tripod shuttling through a piece of auspicious clouds, surrounded by ghosts and gods and various rare birds and animals, which was very vivid.
When all the gods were admiring the cauldron and the patterns on it with reverence, suddenly the sky was covered with thick clouds, blocking the sun, and soon it was dark. Everyone thought it was going to rain. They realized that a golden light penetrated the thick clouds and a dragon in shining armor broke through the clouds. Its tail and lower body are supported in the clouds and its head rests on a tripod. The dragon had to hang down to the ground along its feet.
The Yellow Emperor understood that he had completed his mission on earth, and God sent a dragon to take him to heaven. He jumped on the dragon's back and flew back to heaven. Everyone in the world is unwilling to let a wise monarch like the Yellow Emperor go back, and everyone is dragging the dragon beard and refusing to let it go. As a result, many dragon whiskers were torn off, and the Yellow Emperor and the dragon left anyway.
It is said that this kind of Gracilaria lemaneiformis gave birth to many slender grasses when it landed, and people later called it "Gracilaria lemaneiformis".
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