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How to draw a dragon in 2024

How to draw a dragon for 2024 is as follows:

Draw a curved line with flowers (draw the outline of the head of the baby dragon.) Draw the lantern in an oval (Draw the body and the outer outline of the drum.) Draw expressions (Draw the drumsticks and add details.) Draw fireworks to decorate the picture. Color and finish.

The dragon, an animal in ancient Chinese mythology, is the longest of the scaly insects and one of the symbols of the Chinese nation. According to legend, the dragon can fly, is good at changing, can call the wind and rain, etc., and the phoenix, the unicorn, etc., as auspicious, the ancient main symbol of the imperial power; mythological stories such as painting the dragon to dot the eyes, Nezha haunts the sea, the sun and moon pool, etc..

The Clan Dictionary mentions, "Zulong, the old dragon," and "old dragon" is also the old dragon. The "old dragon" is the Yinglong, so the Yinglong is the "ancestor of the dragon". And because the Yinglong has two wings on its back, and only those who have auxiliary wings can be regarded as "true dragons". Er Ya wings" recorded "horns like a deer, head like a camel, eyes like a rabbit, neck like a snake, belly like a mirage, scales like a fish, claws like an eagle, palm like a tiger, ears like a cow.

"Lun Heng" records that "the secular image of the dragon, horse head and snake body"; "Guangya" records that there are four kinds of dragons: Jiao Long, Ying Long, Gnarled Dragon, and Chi-Dragon. Since ancient times, the dragon has been a symbol of auspiciousness in our tradition. In fact, the dragon is not an exotic animal in the legend, but a real astrological sign that passes over people's heads every day.

Through the observation of the "dragon" and other stars, the Chinese ancestors completed the time and space positioning, embarked on thousands of years of uninterrupted civilization journey. Ancient people for the observation of celestial phenomena, the celestial equator and the ecliptic along the stars into twenty-eight groups of stars, each seven for a group. Among them, the "Eastern Canglong" contains seven stars, which are connected in the shape of a dragon.

The appearance of the seven constellations of the Canglong Dragon and rainfall correspond to each other, and the ancients believed that the dragon was in charge of rainfall, and rainfall determines the harvest of farming, and the harvest of farming determines people's standard of living, and the dragon became the most important "totem" of the farming society. Sima Zhen "fill the three kings of the book" said Fuxi snake head, but in the end, but said Fuxi's "there is a dragon Rui, to the dragon record official, called the dragon division".

The Han Dynasty latitude book, Fuxi's first virtue in the wood, for the first of the hundred kings. Fuxi's is the green dragon, the green emperor. Shennong's, the Yan Emperor, is the king of fire virtue, the Red Dragon; Xuanyuan's, the Yellow Emperor, is the king of earth virtue, the Yellow Dragon. According to the five elements always say, the first to appear is wood, not fire or earth. In the same way, Qingdi should be the first emperor in ancient times, and Qinglong is the first dragon of the Chinese nation.

Fu Xi's is naturally the founder of the Dragon Totem, and started the civilization of the Chinese nation. In the Dunhuang remains, there are four pieces of question-and-answer body scrolls entitled "since the beginning of heaven and earth, the emperor's chronicle," the reason why Fuxi, Nuwa can survive the flood, is because they "clothes dragon on the sky" (wearing a dragon clothes or climbed on the dragon in the sky). Fuxi and Nüwa are the new generation of ****similar ancestors of all ethnic groups after the flood