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The dragon is a Chinese mascot and symbolizes something

The dragon is also a symbol of the emperor during the imperial period in China. During the various dynasties of Chinese history, the emperors also called themselves the "True Dragon Son of Heaven", and the dragon was also a symbol of power.

Things related to the emperor were also stamped with the mark of the dragon, such as "dragon bed", "dragon face", "dragon robe", "dragon chair " and so on. Influenced by Chinese culture, the monarchs of countries in the Chinese character culture circle, such as Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Ryukyu, also used the dragon as a symbol of power. On the other hand, the dragon is also a spiritual symbol of Chinese culture.

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The dragon is ranked fifth in the traditional East Asian zodiac, and its corresponding earthly branch is the eon. In the cognate Indian zodiac, it corresponds to the Naga Dragon and Snake clan.

The dragon, along with the phoenix, the unicorn, and the tortoise, are known as the "four mythical creatures," and the banknotes issued by the Standard Chartered Bank of Hong Kong since 1979 have been based on these creatures. (




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The Green Dragon, along with the White Tiger, Vermilion Bird and Xuan Wu, are the four symbols of Chinese astronomy.

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< p>I. Archaeological Discoveries

The earliest Chinese dragon motifs found so far come from the Xinglongwa culture Chahai site about 8,000 years ago, located in present-day Aohan, Inner Mongolia, near Fuxin, Liaoning, for the dragon-shaped stacked sculptures, that is, with reddish-brown stones stacked and placed dragons, the total length of nearly 20 meters, almost two meters wide, in the center of the village ruins of the plaza; but the earth and stone placed dragons are easy to fake, the eighties and nineties since the dragons are mostly faked. Since the nineties, the dragon shape more fake.

In the south found earlier dragons, there are about 5000 years ago, Pukou Yingpan Mountain site of the head up and down the dragon, Yuhang Liangzhu site of the jade pig dragon and so on.

Two, the dragon process

There are two widely circulated: one is that the dragon was originally a snake on the ground, after a long, long time to collect the spirit of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and the moon, metamorphosis for the jiao, jiao and metamorphosis to eventually become a dragon, with the ability to control the storm and the ability to fly, that is, in ancient times, the "Description of the Book of the strange," the so-called "venomous five hundred years into jiao, jiao a thousand years into a dragon, jiao a thousand years into a dragon.

Another theory is that in ancient times there was a gate in the sea called the Dragon Gate. This Dragon Gate was so big, so big that you couldn't see the whole thing. One day, a carp swam under the Dragon Gate and was blocked, so the carp tried to jump over the Dragon Gate to swim to other places.

After countless jumps, the carp finally jumped over the Dragon Gate, but at this time the carp has become another image, long body covered with scales, two antlers like antlers on the head of the horns, and grew four legs, and there is an eagle's claw, up to the sky, down to the sea, but also the ability to call the winds and call the rain. This legend later became the story of "Fish Leaping Dragon Gate".

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Baidu Encyclopedia - Dragon