"Kui Long"

The imaginary one-legged monster animal is the embryonic period of the dragon, and the description of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Great Wilderness East Classic" is: "The shape is like a cow, the body is pale and there are no horns, one foot, and there will be wind and rain in and out of the water!"

Its light is like the sun and the moon, its sound is like thunder, and its name is called Kui", but more ancient books say that Kui is a snake-like monster, "Kui, the charm is also, like a dragon with one foot," ("Shuo Wen Jie Zi") "Kui, one foot, and walk on your feet!"

In the late Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze decoration, the dragon pattern is one of the main ornaments, the image is mostly Zhang, the tail of the long strip, the shape and the bronze veneer structure line is suitable, with straight lines, arcs as a supplement, with the beauty of the ancient clumsy!

"虺 (hui)"

It is an early dragon, imagined by the reptile - snake as a model, often in the water, "the dragon turned into a dragon in five hundred years, and the dragon turned into a dragon in a thousand years," which is the juvenile period of the dragon, which appeared on the bronze decoration of the Western Weekend period, but not much!

"Hum"

Generally, the little dragon that did not give birth to horns is called a dragon, which is a growing dragon, so the ancient literature notes: "There are horns and a dragon, and there are no horns and dragons!"

Although there are discrepancies between the two statements, they both call the growing dragon Qiu, and some call the dragon of the coiled dragon Qiulong, and the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu has the sentence "Qiu Pan Qianqian drama sheep intestines" in the poem "Title Qingyun Said"!

Even in order to prove the correctness of the two different claims, the two different schools of research have been debating for decades, and in the end, because there is no species to testify, there is no conclusion to be argued!

"Pa

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It is a snake-like monster of the dragon genus, a kind of early dragon without horns, and there is a description of "hornless dragon" in the "Guangya" collection, and there are two versions of the cockroach!

One refers to the yellow hornless dragon, the other refers to the female dragon, in the "Hanshu Sima Xiangru Biography" there is a note of "red mantle, female dragon also", so in the unearthed Warring States jade pendant there is the shape of the dragon claw combined as decoration, which means that the male and female are copulated!

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qin and Han dynasties, bronzes, jade carvings, bronze mirrors or buildings, the shape of the cockroach is commonly used for decoration, and its forms include a single cockroach, a double cockroach, a triple cockroach, a five-cockroach and even a group of cockroaches, or a title plate, or a ring shape, or a scroll book, in addition, there are Bogu cockroaches,

Various changes such as a ring-around mantle!

"Ceratosaurus"

Refers to the horned dragon, according to the "Narrative of Differences": "Jiao turned into a dragon for a thousand years, and the dragon was a horned dragon for five hundred years", and the horned dragon is the old man among the dragons!

"Ying Long"

The winged dragon is called Ying Long, according to the record in the "Strange Record": "The dragon is a horned dragon for five hundred years, and a thousand years is a dragon for Ying", Ying Long can be called the essence of the dragon, so it has grown wings, and it is said that Ying Long is the dragon of the Yellow Emperor in ancient times!

It once crusaded against Chiyou on the order of the Yellow Emperor, and killed Chiyou and became a hero. When Yu ruled the flood, the dragon had swept the ground with its tail, and made meritorious contributions to the flood, this dragon is also called the Yellow Dragon, the Yellow Dragon is the Ying Dragon, so the Ying Long is the hero of Yu!

The characteristics of Ying Long are: born wings, scaly body spines, large and long head, snout tip, nose, eyes, ears are small, eye sockets are large, eyebrow arch is high, teeth are sharp, forehead protrusion, neck thin abdomen is large, tail tip is long, limbs are strong, like a winged Yangtze crocodile, in the jade carving of the Warring States, stone carvings of the Han Dynasty, silk paintings and lacquerware, the image of Ying Long often appears!

"Fire Dragon"

It is a dragon that is a fire intimidation, and its whole body is entangled with purple fire, and wherever a fire dragon passes, everything is scorched!

"Beaulie"

Refers to the dragon that lies dormant on the ground and has not ascended to the sky, the shape of the dragon is coiled around, in the ancient building of our country, the dragon coiled on the pillar and the dragon on the decoration beam, the ceiling are all habitually called the dragon!

In the "Taiping Yulan", there is another explanation for the dragon: "The dragon, the body."

It is four feet long, blue-black, with a red belt like brocade, often going down with the water, entering the sea, poisonous, and killing people!

"Blue Dragon"

As one of the "four spirits" or "four gods", also known as the dragon, the ancient astronomers of our country divided a number of stars in the sky into 28 star regions, that is, 28 nakshatras, to observe the movement of the moon and divide the seasons!

The 28 Nakshatras are divided into four groups, each group of seven Nakshatras, which are in the four directions of east, south, west and north, with four colors of blue, red, white and black, as well as dragons, birds, tigers and Xuanwu

(Turtle and snake intersect) four animals match, called "four elephants" or "four palaces"!

The dragon represents the east, cyan, and the prisoner is called "the green dragon of the East Palace". In the Qin and Han dynasties, these "four elephants" became "four spirits" or "four gods" (dragon, phoenix, turtle, and lin), and the mysterious color became stronger and stronger!

The portrait stone of the Han Dynasty "Donggong Canglong Constellation" existing in the Nanyang Han Painting Museum is composed of a dragon and eighteen stars and the moon engraved with jade and toad, this dragon is the symbol of the entire Canglong constellation, and there are a large number of "four spirits" images in the portrait bricks, stones and tiles of the Han Dynasty!

"Fish Dragon"

It is a dragon with a dragon head and a fish body, and it is also a form of "dragon and fish mutual change", this form has long existed in ancient China, and there is a record of "the cold abyss under the white dragon in the past" in the "Yuan"!

"The Ballad of Chang'an" said that "the big fish in the East China Sea turned into a dragon" and the folk carp jumped over the dragon gate, all tell the relationship between the dragon and the fish, this shape appeared in the jade carving as early as the late Shang Dynasty, and has been developed in the past dynasties!

There is also the legendary pepper map: it is also made as a shop, the shape is like a snail mussel, and the sex is good and closed, so it is often decorated on the door of the ring, according to this image, it is completely inconsistent with the temperament of the dragon, and I don't know if the ancients put an illegitimate species ............ on the dragon family?

In the land of China, the form of the dragon is strange, and there has never been a favorable testimony in history to prove the existence of the dragon, so more and more scientists define the dragon family as an illusory phenomenon in the legend!

At the same time, in the study of dragons, dragons are also classified according to legends and all boundless allusions, and the following forms are formulated:

Sitting dragon: sitting dragon in the form of sitting in the front, head facing forward, standing a fireball under the chin, four claws in different forms to stretch out in four directions, the dragon body curls up and then curves down to make an arc, the posture is correct, the sitting dragon is generally set up in the center position, solemn and serious, up and down or left and right are often lined with a galloping dragon, in feudal society, sitting on the dragon is a noble dragon pattern auspicious!

Walking Dragon: Walking dragon is walking slowly, the whole dragon is the positive side of the horizontal state, walking dragon: often made double opposite decoration, constituting the picture of double dragon playing with pearls, often decorated in the front of the temple of the double fang, the narrow decorative surface of the vessel is also often used, if it appears in a single phase, the head of the dragon often turns back, so that the picture is more vivid!