What are some fables with "dragon" in them?
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A long time ago, on the bank of Tiao River in northern Zhejiang, there lived a hard-working and kind-hearted young couple. The wife was pregnant for a year and gave birth to a monster, which looked like a human but not a human, and looked like a snake but not a snake.
When the old patriarch found out, he was furious and insisted that this was an ominous thing, forcing the couple to kill the baby immediately. The couple couldn't bear it, so they gritted their teeth and asked the man to pick up the footbath and pour the baby into the lotus pond in front of the door.
A few days later, the wife got out of bed and went to wash rice in the lotus pond. Suddenly she saw her son swimming from the lotus bushes to the stone pier, begging for milk from his mother. My mother always loved her son, so she picked him up and fed him milk. In this way, she washed rice three times a day and fed her son milk three times a day. One day, two days, and three hundred and sixty days passed. The son gradually grew up, but he now looked like a dragon.
This news reached the ears of the old patriarch. He knew that instead of being stuck, the freak had grown up. He was very angry, so he came up with a vicious plan to kill it.
One day at noon, the old man hid a woodcutter beside him and secretly hid in the bushes by the pond. When the woman was washing rice, she saw a little dragon swimming ashore and begging for milk from her.
When the old man saw this, he raised his knife and chopped, and the little dragon quickly jumped into the lotus pond. But it was too late, this knife cut off Xiaolong's tail, and blood dripped from it instantly. There happened to be a beautiful big butterfly parked in the pond. When the butterfly saw that the little dragon was injured for no reason and lost its tail, it felt very sympathetic, so it immediately flew over and connected its tail with its own body, so it turned into a beautiful butterfly. Dragon tail.
At this moment, a strong wind blew, dark clouds rolled, and the petals of the lotus flowers in the pond were flying. The dragon suddenly grew to more than ten feet long, and suddenly jumped up from the pond, with its body covered with lotus flowers. The petals of the lotus fly straight into the sky.
When the old man saw this momentum, he was so frightened that he fainted and died. When Xiaolong's mother saw her son flying into the clouds, she called Xiaolong three times with tears in her eyes, but Xiaolong had already flown away without a trace.
From then on, whenever there was a drought on both sides of Tiao River, the little dragon would fly to bring down clouds and sow rain, so that the villagers could have a good harvest. In order to thank it, people in Changxing area used colorful cloth to make lotus petals, dragon scales and butterfly dragon tails, making Changxing's famous "hundred-leaf dragon". Every Spring Festival, people dance the dragon to commemorate and celebrate.
Ye Gong loves dragons
In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a county magistrate named Shen Chuliang in Ye County, Chu State, and everyone called him Ye Gong. Ye Gong liked dragon-related things very much. Whether it was decorations, beams, doors, windows, dishes, or clothes, they all had dragon patterns on them. There was even a big dragon painted on the walls of his home. When everyone walked in Ye Gong’s home thought he had entered a dragon palace, as dragon patterns could be seen everywhere! "My favorite thing is the dragon!" Ye Gong said proudly to everyone. One day, Mr. Ye's love for dragons was known to the real dragon in the sky. The real dragon said: "It's rare for someone to like dragons so much. I have to visit his home!" The real dragon flew to Mr. Ye's home from the sky. He stuck his head into the window and shouted: "Is Mr. Ye at home?" When Mr. Ye saw the real dragon, he was so frightened that he shouted: "Wow! Monster!" The real dragon felt very strange and said: "What did you say about me?" Is it a monster? I am your favorite dragon!" Mr. Ye was trembling with fear and said, "I like a fake dragon that looks like a dragon, but it's not a real dragon. Help." Mr. Ye didn't finish his words. , and quickly ran away! The real dragon was left behind and said with an annoyed look on his face: "Humph, it's a lie that Mr. Ye said he likes dragons. He is simply afraid of dragons! Why did I fly to visit him!"
Later, Everyone uses "Ye Gong Haolong" to describe a person who pretends to be good to the outside world, but actually doesn't know anything in private!
The finishing touch
In the Liang Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a very famous painter named Zhang Sengyao, who had superb painting skills. The emperor at that time, Emperor Wu of Liang, believed in Buddhism and asked him to paint many temples he built.
Legend has it that one year, Emperor Wu of Liang asked Zhang Sengyao to paint four golden dragons on the walls of Andong Temple in Jinling. He agreed and finished the painting in just three days.
These dragons are painted so lifelike and lifelike that they are as vivid as real dragons.
After Zhang Sengyao finished the painting, many people came to watch it, and they all praised the painting for being so good and so realistic. However, when people look closer, they will find that the only flaw is that all four dragons have no eyes. Everyone asked him to light up Long De's eyes. Zhang Sengyao explained: "It is not difficult to add eyeballs to dragons, but if you dot the eyes, the dragons will break through the wall and fly away."
No one believed it after hearing this, thinking that he had explained it this way. It's ridiculous. How could the dragon on the wall fly away? As time went by, many people thought he was lying.
Zhang Sengyao was forced to have no choice but to agree to "dot the eyes" on the dragon. On this day, there were many people watching in front of the temple wall. In front of everyone, Zhang Sengyao picked up his paintbrush and gently added eyes to the two dragons. As expected, a strange thing happened. He had just clicked on the eyes of the second dragon. Suddenly, the sky was covered with dark clouds, strong winds were blowing, thunder and lightning flashed. Amidst the thunder and lightning, people saw the two dragons whose eyes were "clicked" shattered through the wall and flew into the sky. Get up, fly into the sky on the clouds and mist with teeth and claws.
After a while, the clouds cleared and the sky cleared. People were so frightened that they could not speak a word. Looking at the wall again, there are only two dragons that have not been "eye-dotted", and the other two "eye-dotted" dragons have disappeared.
Later, people derived the idiom "putting the finishing touch" based on this legend, which is a metaphor for a speech or article. A key and incisive sentence or two is used at the main point to highlight the gist and make the content more interesting. Vivid and powerful. But in the information age of knowledge reform and opening up, we can think of this as an innovation, because a qualitative leap occurred when Monk Zhang nodded his eyes at the dragon...
If everyone How happy we would be if we could draw an eye for our country!