What are the artifacts about dragons

1. Nine Dragons Cup, the whole cup is decorated by nine dragons, a dragon head to the bottom of the cup, the tail out of the cup and bent for the cup handle, the other eight dragons to form four pairs, each pair of a head up, a head down, head up the four dragons reached inside the mouth of the cup in the form of a drink of water when the cup body is full of liquid through the cup body of the inverted U-shaped tube, and by the head down from the mouth of the four dragons spewed out.

2. Celadon Dragon Bowl, which has two huge dragons with teeth and claws fine whiskers fluttering in the wind, two huge dragons frowning and staring, ears like an elephant, phosphorus like a fish, beard like a man, belly like a snake, feet like a phoenix body scales like a hard shield,,, unusually brilliant.

3. Nine Dragons Wall is a kind of shadow wall, is a traditional Chinese architecture used to block the view of the wall. Located in the Forbidden City, Ning Shou Palace District, outside the Huangji Gate. Wall length 29.47m, 3.59m high, 0.45.9m thick, is a back leaning against the palace wall and the construction of a one-sided glazed shadow wall, for the thirty-seventh year of the Qianlong (1770) reconstruction of the Ning Shou Palace when the burning.

4. Nine dragons fair cup, also known as the Pingxin Cup, the ancient Han Chinese drinking porcelain products. Cup body and cup base two parts, the body height of about 20 centimeters. Nine dragons fair cup Ming dynasty Yongle years Jingdezhen imperial factory are produced, now Jingdezhen is still in production. Fujian Dehua kiln products are more common, but the cup inside the porcelain carving shape is generally based on longevity figures.

Extended information:

The dragon is China and other East Asian regions of ancient myths and legends of the divine animal, for the scaly insects of the long. Commonly used to symbolize auspiciousness, is one of the most representative of the Han and other East Asian peoples of traditional culture, dragon legends and other dragon culture is very rich.

The most basic feature of the image of the dragon is "nine like", the specific nine animals is still controversial. Legend has it that it can be visible and hidden, fine and huge, short and long. The spring equinox ascends to the sky, the autumn equinox dives into the abyss, calls the wind and calls the rain, and these are already the image of the dragon developed in the late stage, compared with the original dragon is more complex.

"Zhang Guo Xing Jing" cloud: "and auxiliary wings, then the real dragon", that there are wings Fang is a real dragon, such as the Western Zhou has a large number of body feathers dragon patterned vessels, and even the Qinglong in the pre-Qin decorations also have feathers, one said that the Qinglong for the ancestor of the dragon, the feudal era, the dragon is a symbol of imperial power, the Imperial Palace to use the artifacts are also decorated with dragons.

The dragon is the fifth in the traditional Chinese zodiac, and is known as the Four Spirits along with the phoenix, the tortoise, and the lin in "Ritual Records - The Ninth of the Rites of Passage", while the ?Dragon, in Western mythology, is also translated as dragon, but the two are not the same.

The creatures of ancient Chinese folk myths and legends visible in the Chinese classics cannot be found as entities in reality, but the constituents of their images originate from reality and play a role in dispelling evil spirits, avoiding calamities and praying for blessings.