Why is China called the son of the dragon?

the origin of "descendants of the dragon"

In the stone carvings of Wu's tombs in the Eastern Han Dynasty in Jiaxiang County, Shandong Province, there are a group of portraits of ancient emperors. Painters include 1 emperors, including Fuxi, Zhu Rong, Shennong, Huangdi, Tang Yao and Xia Yu. Among them, nine emperors were human heads, but Fu Xishi's image was strange, and he was painted with Nu Wa. Both of them were human heads and dragons' tails, which seemed to be transformed from dragons. In ancient Chinese mythology, it is said that Fuxi and Nu Wa gave birth to human beings after their marriage. Of course, human beings are descendants of dragons, so they are called "descendants of dragons". The phrase "descendants of the dragon" comes from this.

the meaning of the dragon's descendants

In China's ancient mythology, human beings were made by Nuwa squeezing loess. Nu Wa created human beings, so who created Nu Wa herself? Generally speaking, Nu Wa was first created by the people who worshipped snakes as totems.

what is a totem? Totem is a symbol of the clan in primitive society. Totem belief is a very primitive belief. The color of the snake totem can be clearly seen in the images of Nvwa 、 Fuxi and others. Snake totem is widely distributed, and now it is mainly concentrated in the southeast and southwest of China. During thousands of years of continuous migration, the cultures of various ethnic groups have blended with each other, and snake totems have spread all over the north and south of the Yangtze River. There are traces or customs of snake totems in Gaoshan nationality in Taiwan Province and Li nationality in Hainan. In areas where snakes are regarded as totems, people generally think that "snake" is the prototype of "dragon" and "dragon" is the divine display of "snake". Therefore, in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, domestic snakes are called "black dragon", "Tianlong" and "Jialong". In Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places, some ethnic groups call themselves "Dragon Species", "Dragon People" and "Dragon Houses" and build snake temples to worship snake gods.

It can be seen from this that our Chinese nation is a descendant of the dragon and has a deep historical origin. The dragon is a symbol of China people, and the Chinese nation proudly considers itself a "descendant of the dragon".