The Origin and Significance of Longteng

The origin and significance of dragon totem originated from Fuxi, and there are other evidences besides Mr. Wen Yiduo's exposition. Dragon totem symbolizes a kind of spirit, which symbolizes power, nobility and dignity in China traditional culture.

In ancient times, all tribes had their own totems. In order to survive, wars often broke out between them. Later, all the tribes merged into a clan with snakes as its totem. After defeating the clans with fish, birds and lizards as totems, the clans with snakes as totems merged the totems of these clans, and finally formed a new totem with snakes as the main body and fish, birds and lizards as supplements. This is a dragon.

The image of the dragon was created by the ancients in their long-term struggle for existence with nature. At that time, all kinds of animals flying in the sky, running on the ground and swimming in the water could become totems. With the passage of time, the image of the dragon gradually fixed.

Other relevance

The reason why the dragon is revered by Chinese people is that it is closely related to the formation of Chinese civilization. As we all know, before Huangdi, the first emperor of the Five Emperors, there was a period of 120, which was the reign of Shennong, with a history of more than 530 years. Yandi Shennong lived in the last days of Huang San earlier than the Five Emperors.

In the development process, the Shennong tribe in Yan Di once collided, conflicted and merged with the Huangdi tribe, and later formed a larger Yanhuang tribe alliance headed by Huangdi, and this "Shennong, surnamed Jiang", who was slightly earlier than the Huangdi era, was his mother's "Traveling in Huayang, having a leading body, feeling the Emperor Yan" (Book of Introduction, Volume 9, quoted from the Imperial Century), starting from Yan Di.