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Why do dragons fly without wings

The reasons why dragons fly without wings are the principle of air, relying on buoyancy.

1, Zhuangzi mentioned that the dragon is the air in the water gathered and then drive their own flight, visible dragon has some way to ride the water to the sky, the use of the air should be the principle of the air, so that the air drives the water, and then the water drives the dragon, so the dragon in China are mostly related to water.

2, rely on buoyancy, birds in order to adapt to flight, the body evolved very light, bones are hollow, minimize weight, and hydrogen is much lighter than air, if the dragon's body is also very light, and a large number of hydrogen stored in the body, presumably like a hydrogen balloon to float.

Introduction of the dragon

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, good at changing, will call the wind and rain, etc., and the phoenix, the unicorn, etc., and listed as auspicious, the ancient main symbol of imperial power; mythological stories have drawn the dragon dotting the eyes, Nezha haunted the sea, the sun and moon pool, etc.?

The dragon is the most important symbol of the emperor in ancient times.

The most basic feature of the image of the dragon is the "nine like", the specific nine animals is still controversial. Which according to the Materia Medica records: head like a camel, horn like a deer, eyes like a rabbit, ears like a cow, neck like a snake, belly like a mirage, scales like a carp, claws like an eagle, palm like a tiger, is also. Its back has eighty-one scales, with nine nine Yang number. Its sound is like a copper disk. There are whiskers beside the mouth, pearls under the jaw, and scales under the throat.

The legend says that it is able to show and hide, to be fine and huge, and to be 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 images of dragons developed in the later stages, which are more complex compared to the original dragons.

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