What are the nine sons of the dragon called

Ancient Chinese legend has it that the dragon has nine sons, each with a different appearance and each with their own good qualities. Here I will briefly introduce these nine sons.

Of the nine sons, the eldest son: Bi Xi (赑屃) (pronounced Bi Xi), also known as Tortoise Tarsus. It is shaped like a tortoise and is good at carrying heavy loads. He likes to carry heavy objects on his back, so he carries a stone tablet on his back. It is said that touching it can bring good fortune. But most of the time, we take his statue as a tortoise 。。。。。。

Second son chi dragons: also known as scops owl, scops owl, good looking, shaped like a four-legged snake cut off the tail, favorite looking around, often decorated on the eaves. Could it be a variant of the gecko?

The third son, Pu Juan: shaped like a dragon, but smaller than a dragon. He likes music and roaring, and is often seen on the buttons of large bells. It is said that because he lived by the sea, he was usually afraid of whales, and whenever he was attacked by whales, he would roar loudly. So people will put his image on the bell, and will hit the bell of the long wood carved into a whale-shaped, to hit the bell for its loud and bright. So it was all cowards!

Four sons quodid: also known as Charter. Looks like a tiger, powerful, and good prison matters, people will be carved and cast in the prison door. Tiger is a powerful beast, visible quodid Jail's usefulness is to enhance the majesty of the prison, so that criminals are afraid. Jail head, not like it, must be fierce. In my novel, he will be a serious, cold guy in charge of hunting down all kinds of prisoners.

Fifth son Taotie: resembles a wolf, good at eating. The shape of its head is often carved on bells, tripods, and Yi vessels as decoration. Since Taotie was a particularly gluttonous beast in the legend, people called those who were greedy for food and even possessions as Taotie. Taotie also appeared on Shang and Zhou bronzes as a patterned animal face decoration, called Taotie pattern. This guy is definitely a glutton! But if he loves to eat so much, his cooking skills should also be extraordinary.

Six Jair: looks like a jackal, good fishy kill. Often carved on the hilt of the sword scabbard. Jair is the original meaning of the angry eyes, the so-called "a meal of virtue will be paid, Jair's grudge will be avenged". If the revenge will not avoid fishy kill, so, this look like a jackal like the son of the dragon appeared in the scabbard on the hilt of the sword is very natural. Fear, offend him is not a good thing, Jairus this each idiom will not come because of him!

Seventh son of mythical Geibi: also known as Geibi, Lingibi. Mythical Geibi is originally an alias for lion, so it is shaped like a lion, good fireworks, and good to sit. It can be seen on the Buddha seat and incense burner in temples. The lion, an animal that dares to eat even tigers and leopards and has a dignified appearance, was introduced to China with Buddhism. Because Buddha Shakyamuni has "fearless lion" metaphor, people will naturally arranged into the Buddha's seat, or carved on the incense burner to let it enjoy the incense. The Buddha's side of the red man yo, a good job.

Bazi pepper figure: the shape of a screw clam, good closed mouth, sex withdrawn, and therefore people often carve its image in the door of the store on the head, or carved in the door plate. Snail mussel encountered foreign aggression, always close the shell mouth tightly. People will be used on the door, probably to take it can be tightly closed meaning, in order to be safe. Door God Hoo~~? Or maybe a watchdog?

The last is the main character of the book, please stand up, music, well, this time you can look carefully, do not recognize the wrong. Dragon Nine Sons Prisoner Bull: the shape of a small yellow dragon with scales and horns, good music. The musical cells of the Dragon Oh, not only stand in the Han's huqin, the Yi's dragon head Yueqin, the Bai's three-stringed zither, as well as some Tibetan musical instruments also have its head and mouth on the image. The reason why the nine sons of the dragon is famous is probably that according to the cloud above the exclamation: "I am the ninth son of the dragon, to be the first person on earth. You only envy my changes in the clouds, who knows the depths of my pool. Though I have gone through the pain of countless reverse scales, I still don't know when I will be able to have a great head."

Finally said prisoner cattle huqin, this nine is a little complicated Oh, general statement, the originator of the huqin is the Tang Dynasty musical instrument ---- Xiqin. The original Xiqin is a plucked instrument, its shape is very similar to the present erhu, but the difference is that it is played with bamboo pieces. By the Song Dynasty, the second generation of the huqin ---- jiqin began to be used as a solo instrument at court banquets, when the jiqin was already able to play more complex and sophisticated techniques such as switching handles and shifting fingers, and used the horse's tail bow to pull the strings. This kind of instrument with horse's tail instead of bamboo rubbing strings to pronounce the sound, is a long time living a nomadic life of China's northern ethnic minority people's ingenuity and wisdom of the crystallization, but also China's stringed instruments forward a milestone in the development of the instrument. To the Yuan Dynasty, with the exchange and integration of minority cultures and Han culture, the huqin form has a new development, closer to the current leading erhu. At that time, the huqin was not only used for solos and ensembles in banquets, but also widely used in military activities. From the Yuan Dynasty onwards, the name huqin became a generic term for Chinese stringed instruments. However, I have read that the pipa is the ancient Chinese huqin. To be honest, I don't really understand what the ancient huqin is all about, so if you know anything about the history of the instrument, please enlighten me.

Finally, I would like to say that there is more than one version of the Dragon's Nine Sons, and the order in which they are listed is not the same.

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