Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking wind in the darkness, and the ancient bluebird only felt a gust of yin wind flying towards her, she hurriedly opened her eyes, grabbed the safety rope in her hand and looked at a long thing behind her that flew towards her, so frightened that the ancient bluebird quickly dodged to the side, and then this long creature was in her hand, standing strangely on the rock straight up and down, and the ancient bluebird stared at her with big eyes.

"Ahh The ancient blue bird couldn't help but scream, and almost let go of his hand.

Lanling also felt the situation here, and when he raised his hand, a wind blade came over, and the ancient blue bird saw that this long creature turned around and flew to other places.

Lan Ling came to her side and asked, "How is it?" ”

"Dragon...... Dragon! The ancient bluebird said, although I didn't see what color the long thing was just now, but it was just a glimpse, and the ancient bluebird saw that the thing looked exactly the same as the dragon in the myth.

Lan Ling smiled: "That's a cave newt." ”

"Can newts fly?" The ancient bluebird was in shock.

"Maybe it's a mutated newt?" Lanling said.

The cave newt is an amphibian. Due to its gray, pink body, local residents of Slovenia and Croatia refer to it as "mermaids". [1] The newt inhabits the underground water veins of the limestone caves of the Dinari Alps, from the Isonzo River basin near Trieste, Italy, through southern Slovenia, southwestern Croatia, and as far as Herzegovina. This species is also the only species in the genus Cave Newt. In addition, it is the only burrowing chordate in Europe, and on the old currency of Slovenia, there is a pattern of a burrowing newt.

A few years ago, when the mobile Internet was just emerging, there were many photos of the so-called "real dragon" circulating on many forums. Because many people were new to the Internet at that time, many people believed in the photos on the forum that claimed to be "real dragons". Later, people gradually realized that they had been deceived. These so-called "real dragon" photos are not actually dragons, but a rare animal endemic to Slovenia, scientifically known as the cave newt. If you are a friend who has seen similar photos, you should be impressed. Although these photos have been photoshopped, the newt in the photo really resembles the dragon in Chinese mythology. Except for the slight difference in size, in terms of shape and demeanor, it looks like a copy of a dragon. So much so that many people, after seeing the picture of the newt for the first time, thought that it was a dragon cub. Of course, dragons have always existed only in legends, and no one has seen them in reality. Comparing the newt to Jackie Chan's cub is just an imagination. In ancient times, people mostly believed that dragons were real. In modern society, because zoologists have never found a trace of a dragon, nor have they captured the actual dragon, people have gradually believed that the dragon is just a legend, and like the mythical unicorn and the red bird, they are all creatures imagined by the ancients. Moreover, what kind of animal is the prototype of the dragon has always been the focus of debate. After looking at the pictures of the newt, many people think that the newt may be the prototype of the dragon. But this statement has been rejected by zoologists. The newt was first discovered by a doctor in Austria whose name was Laurent. In 1768, while traveling in the Carpathian Mountains, Laurent discovered this miraculous creature in an underground cave. Because the creature was so peculiar, Laurent gave it a very legendary name: Proteus. It was only after the rise of modern zoological research that the name Proteus was changed to the cave newt. It is a chordate that lives in underground burrows and feeds mainly on small insects. Although it is only 30 centimeters long, it has a very long lifespan, and it is said that it can live for more than 100 years. Such a long lifespan can be regarded as a veritable long-lived species in the animal kingdom. Moreover, according to the observations of zoologists, cave newts can continue to survive for up to 6 years in conditions of lack of food. 6 years can be said to be a very long time, and it can survive without eating or drinking for such a long time, which can be said to be very rebellious. The newt can survive without eating or drinking for 6 years, which is somewhat similar to the legendary dragon that swallows clouds and spits fog for a living. But according to zoologists, the prototype of the dragon is not a newt. The reason is simple, the Carpathian Mountains, the habitat of the newt, are located in the middle of Europe, and it was not until the middle of the 18th century that people discovered this amazing creature, and it was impossible for ancient people living in Asia to see the newt. Therefore, from this point of view, it is impossible for the newt to be used as the prototype of the dragon by the ancients. The image of the dragon has developed from ancient times to today, and has been deeply imprinted in the spirit of our Chinese civilization.

The dragon is a mythical creature living in the sea in ancient myths and legends of China and other East Asian countries, and is the chief of the scale insects, which is in charge of the clouds and rain, and is the master of the weathered rain, and is often used to symbolize auspiciousness. The dragon is one of the most representative traditional cultures of East Asian peoples such as the Han people, and the dragon culture such as the legend of the dragon is very rich. The most basic feature of the image of the dragon is "nine likenesses", and the specific nine animals are still debated. Legend has it that it can be visible and hidden, small and huge, short and long. The spring equinox ascends to the sky, the autumn equinox dives into the abyss, and these images of dragons, which have been developed in the late period, are more complex than the original dragons. [1] "Zhang Guo Xingjing" cloud: "If there are auxiliary wings, it is a true dragon", believing that the winged party is a true dragon. [2] For example, there were a large number of winged dragon vessels in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and even the green dragon also had wings in the pre-Qin ornaments, and it is said that the green dragon is the ancestral dragon. [3] In feudal times, the dragon was a symbol of imperial power, and the utensils used in the imperial palace were also decorated with dragons. The dragon is the fifth of the 12 traditional Chinese zodiac signs, and is called the "Four Spirits" along with the phoenix, turtle and lin in the Book of Rites and Fortunes. And the D in Western mythology

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, also translated as dragon, but the two are not the same. Like Western dragons, Chinese dragons, which are sacred in the eyes of the public, occasionally have an evil side, as detailed in the "Differences between China and Foreign Countries" section of this article. [4] The creatures that can be seen in ancient Chinese folk myths and legends in Chinese classics cannot be found in reality, but the composition of their images originates from reality and plays the role of dispelling evil spirits, avoiding disasters, and praying for blessings. "Xunzi Fu": "The world is dangerous, and I am afraid of losing the world." The dragon is a dragonfly, and the owl is a phoenix. Wang Chong of the Eastern Han Dynasty said: "The secular painting of the dragon is like a horse's head and a snake's tail." Eastern Han Dynasty Bangu "Book of Han": "The minister thinks that the dragon has no horns, and it is said that it is a snake with feet, and it is a lizard that is not guarding the palace." Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" contains: "Dragon, the length of the scale insect, can be dark and bright, can be small and huge, can be short and long, ascend to the sky at the spring equinox, and dive into the abyss at the autumn equinox." The ancestor of the dictionary, Erya, mentions the image of the phoenix, but does not mention the image of the dragon. In the supplement "Erya Wings" made by Song Ren Luo Yuan for Erya, there is a "release dragon": "The horns are like a deer, the head is like a camel, the eyes are like a rabbit, the neck is like a snake, the belly is like a mirage, the scales are like a fish, the claws are like an eagle, the palms are like tigers, and the ears are like cows." Guo Ruoxu, a connoisseur of calligraphy and painting who was also a Song person, expressed a similar view in his Pictures and Stories. In the Ming Dynasty, the image of the dragon became more specific and plump, and the cloud of "Compendium of Materia Medica: Wings": "The dragon is the length of the scales." Wang Fuyan has nine shapes: the head is like a camel, the horns are like a deer, the eyes are like a rabbit, the ears are like a cow, the neck is like a snake, the belly is like a mirage, the scales are like a carp, the claws are like an eagle, and the palm is like a tiger. It has eighty-one scales on its back, with nine or nine yang numbers. Its sound is like a copper plate. There is a beard next to the mouth, a pearl under the chin, and an inverted scale under the throat. There is Boshan on the head, also known as the ruler wood, and the dragon cannot ascend to heaven without the ruler wood. It can turn into water and fire. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Luo Guanzhong outlined the characteristics of dragons through the mouth of Cao Cao: "Dragons can be big and small, and they can rise and hide; The big one is the clouds and the fog, and the small one is hidden and hidden; The rising is soaring between the universe, and the hidden is lurking in the waves. Fang is deep this spring, and the dragon changes with time". Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty wrote in "Zi Bu Yu" that "the thunderstorm is obscure, the dragon comes to wail, and the sound is like a cow's roar." The Song Dynasty painter Dong Yu believed that the dragon "has horns like a deer, a head like a cow, eyes like a shrimp, a mouth like a donkey, a belly like a snake, scales like a fish, feet like a phoenix, a beard like a human, and ears like an elephant." This is a saying that has been widely recognized in the 21st century. Evolution of the image of the dragon Edit From the cultural era thousands of years ago when there was no history to study to the Yin Shang, the Western Zhou Dynasty, and then to the Warring States and the pre-Qin, the vessels and ornaments of the dragon image have always emerged in an endless stream, with wings, without wings, horns, horns, and the beast-bodied dragon of the Liangzhu culture, and the serpentine dragon of the Chahai site, its image is also different, so some scholars believe that the origin and source of the dragon are numerous. The dragon figure of the Western Han Dynasty (including the Wang Mang period) has a slender body, resembling a snake-shaped, with an indistinguishable tail and a fin at the end. The head resembles that of a crocodile, and the overall body is slender and elongated. There are two types: winged and wingless. Some of the horns resemble bull's horns, elongated, and slightly curved at the tip. The upper and lower jaws are of equal length, and the upper and lower lips are rolled up and down, respectively. There are two types, and the wings are bird's wing. Beast legs, short and stubby. The foot part is two kinds of animal and eagle feet, with three toes. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the dragon body was stout, like a tiger, with a distinct body and tail, and individual fins. The horns resemble the horns of a bull. There are protruding ridges under the horns, and the top is rolled forward, and there are also antlers that resemble antlers. And they all have wings. The beast has long legs. The image of the tiger is the mainstay, supplemented by the image of other animals. The dragon body from Jian'an to Wei and Jin (Sixteen Kingdoms period) is more slender, like a tiger, and the body and tail are distinct. The head horns are slightly similar to the antlers. There are two types of wings, and the winged dragon is still in the shape of a bird's wing. The legs are beasts and long. From the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, the dragon body was slender, like a tiger, with a distinct body and tail, and a ring of flames appeared on the neck and back. There are still two kinds of dragon wings, with streamer-shaped wings appearing and bird-wing still existing. The limbs are floating upward, and there are long animal hairs. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the body was thick and plump, returning to the body of a snake, the body and tail were not distinguished, and there were scales from the back to the tail, and there was a circle of fins on the tail in the Song Dynasty. It absorbs the characteristics of the image of a lion, round and plump, with a hyena on the back of the head. In the Tang Dynasty, there were forked antlers, and the antlers were slightly similar in the early stage. The upper lip is long with a pointed tip, and the lower lip is short and no longer curled. The dragon wings are already streamer-shaped. In the Song Dynasty, four-clawed feet appeared, and the hind limbs and tail often crossed and circled. Discussion on the Origin of Dragons Editor Dragon Mythical Animal Theory This is the most common view represented by Ciyuan and Cihai. The former said, "The dragon is a kind of supernatural animal in ancient legends that is good at changing and can bring clouds and rain to benefit all things, and is the chief of scales"; The latter said, "The dragon is a supernatural animal with scales and mustaches and the ability to raise clouds and make rain in ancient legends." There are similar sayings: "The dragon is a very mysterious animal god with many divinities", "It is an animal imagined by the ancient Chinese," (Zhu Tianshun) "The dragon is a kind of divine animal that appears in Chinese culture with a long body, a large mouth, and most of the horns and feet with unpredictable changes that are not found in the world," (Liu Zhixiong, Yang Jingrong) "Divine animals" are based on "animal supernaturals", and the former comes from the latter, so which animals have become "dragons" through "supernatural animals"? This point is not clearly explained in the "Ciyuan" and "Cihai", and the scholars' discussions are diverse. Let's see: Reptiles -- Wei Juxian said "the dragon is the crocodile"; Wang Mingda said that "the tone of the dragon image is a crocodile"; Qi Qingfu believes that the dragon "is actually the earliest name for crocodile"; Wang Dayou believes that "the most primitive dragons in China are the bay crocodile and the Yangtze crocodile"; Donlan says that the dragon is "in the shape of a lizard with horns"; He Xin said that the dragon "is the common name of crocodiles and lizards in the eyes of the ancients." Xu Naixiang and Cui Yanxun believe that "dragons are based on snakes"; Li Yun said that "the dragon was made of a snake", which was "modeled on the snake, according to the shape and characteristics of the snake, and then shaped by some imagination"; Liu Dunyuan believes that "the earliest dragon was a legged snake, which used horns to indicate its divine nature"; He Xingliang proposed that "the base form of the dragon is a snake, and the closest snake to the dragon is the python", so it can be said that "the original form of the dragon is a python". Mammals -- Liu Chenghuai said that "in addition to snakes and lizards, dragons also have a backbone and basic form, that is, horses"; He further pointed out that "the horse that served as one of the models of the dragon was originally not an ordinary earth pony, but a hippopotamus", and Li Yin believed that "the head horn of the dragon was shaped by the ancients imitating the head of a bull": "We often say 'cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods', and it seems that the dragon is a combination of the two." Sun Shoudao and others proposed that "the head of the dragon originates from the head of the pig". Phenological reference animal--Chen Shouxiang believes that the dragon's body is a "writhing insect shape", and the dragon's horn is the "tool for measuring time-table" of the ancestors. "In a wide range, people choose different phenological reference animals, so the turtles and crocodiles in the Jianghan Basin, the insects, frogs and fish in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, and the birds and animals in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River may become the reference animals of the phenological calendar...... Later, these relationships evolved into ideas focused on a specific image, and the dragon was formed. Dragon Totem Merger Theory This theory is represented by Wen Yiduo's views in "Fu Xi Kao". According to Wen, the dragon "is a totem, and a virtual creature that exists only in the totem and does not exist in the biological world, because it is a synthesis of many different totems"; It is "the result of the annexation and assimilation of many weak units by the snake totem", He Xingliang also believes, "Dragon Yuan is a totem, but it is different from other totems." It may have originally been a tribal totem, and later evolved into a god that transcended the tribe and became the longest-lasting totem god worshipped by the Chinese nation. He Xin once believed that "the truth and entity of the dragon is the cloud" and "the dragon is the life personality of the cloud god"; "The original dragon form was nothing more than an abstract spiral-like moire. Later, it gradually became concretized, biological, and expanded to approach the image of amphibians and reptiles in the real biological world. Zhu Dashun pointed out, "The opportunity or starting point of the fantasy dragon, the animal god, may not be caused by the fact that the ancients saw animals similar to dragons, but because they saw the phenomenon of lightning in the sky." For, if lightning is used as a basis to fantasize about it as an animal, it can easily be imagined as an elongated, four-legged animal. Zhao Tianyi believes that the thunder and lightning dragon is a "trinity", and the dragon is the image of thunder and lightning. Hu Changjian said, "The prototype of the dragon comes from the natural landscape of spring - the curvature of thunder and lightning, the stupid winter insects, the sprouting plants and trees, the rainbow after the rain that begins in March, and so on...... Among them, the rainbow is the most direct archetype of the dragon, because the rainbow has a beautiful, concrete visual image. Yin Rongfang's view is more chalek, he believes, "The dragon in Chinese legend was originally the incarnation of the tree god. The Chinese worship of the dragon is a tortuous reflection of the worship of the tree god, the dragon is the tree god, the god of plants. The prototype of the dragon is an evergreen pine and cypress (mainly pine) and other trees. "Not only are pine and dragon strikingly similar in appearance, but the other attributes of dragons are also strikingly similar to pine." The testament of the dragon dinosaur Ye Yusen, Xu Zhibai and the American scholar Hayes advocated that the concept of the dragon should be the memory of the ancient ancestors of the giant reptile dinosaurs, or advocated that the ancestors had dragon worship because of the fear of dinosaurs. The ancients took reptiles with four-legged, thin necks, long tails, snake-like, bull-like, and tiger heads as dragons, which may be some kind of dinosaur image that the ancients saw and depicted at that time...... Perhaps the dragons that the ancients saw were really dinosaurs, and then they gradually disappeared, so they regarded their same kind as sea crocodiles, bay crocodiles or Chinese alligators and worshipped them. Zhang Hongzhao believes that the Chinese dragon is the poisonous dragon in Western culture, which was passed down to Middle-earth during the Yellow Emperor period, and the British scholar Smith believes that all major civilizations in the world have dragons, and all dragons come from the same cultural birthplace - Babylon, and Chinese dragons are also descendants of Babylonian ancient dragons. Dragon Fuzzy Set Theory For the origin and essence of dragons, Pang Jin put forward the "fuzzy set theory", that is, the dragon is a kind of divine object produced by the ancient people's fuzzy collection of fish, crocodiles, snakes, pigs, horses, cows and other animals, as well as natural celestial phenomena such as clouds, thunder and lightning, and rainbows. Originating in the Neolithic Age about 8,000 years ago, the Chinese dragon is the product of the primitive ancestors' vague worship of alien forces outside the body. Summary of the dragon review As a paleontological dinosaur, extinct in the Mesozoic Era about 70 million years ago, the earliest ape-man lived in the Pleistocene three million years ago, with a difference of more than 60 million years, therefore, it is impossible for ape-man to see dinosaurs, let alone the memory and fear of dinosaurs. Zhang Hongzhao is an advocate of the Western view of Chinese culture, and his views are merely a theoretical hypothesis. The poisonous dragon in Western culture and the dragon in Chinese culture are similar in their relationship with water, but the overall difference is very large, Smith's statement is due to his extreme communication theory, that is, insisting that world culture originated in Egypt and Babylon, both of which were born in the twenties and thirties of this century. There is also a relatively large controversy over the merger of dragons as totems, and the negative view is that "so far, there is no credible data in archaeology and history to prove that there was a powerful clan tribe with snakes as totems in Chinese history, and the theory of merging and merging other clans and tribes with horses, dogs, fish, birds, and deer as totems is completely imaginary." Scholars have also pointed out that it is also very wrong to regard animal shapes or ornaments that appear on ancient Chinese cultural relics as totemic expressions. Because a certain type of culture in archaeology and a certain clan and tribe in sociology are two completely different concepts, some scholars put forward paradoxes from the basic characteristics of totemic culture, such as: almost all totems are specific creatures or inanimate creatures that exist in nature, and dragons are "sacred objects" that do not exist in nature; Totem is the object of reverence of the members of the clan group, and it is not allowed to damage, destroy or kill, and in the ancient Chinese classics and myths and legends, there is no shortage of descriptions of degrading the dragon, insulting the dragon, fighting the dragon, and slaying the dragon. The difference between the dragon and the rest of the world Editor Although "dragon" is generally translated as "d" in English

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"It has always been a national symbol of the Vikings, Celts and Saxons, which is no different from the oriental dragon. With the growth of Christianity, the negative connotations of dragons and serpents were magnified, and they were portrayed in the New Testament as evil "ancient serpents", "demons", and "Satan", and since then Western dragons have often been equated with evil. Western Dragons – Deathwing But the difference between the Western Dragon and the Eastern Dragon is not simply a "good and evil" distinction. As Chairman Mao and other great men said: "Good and bad, good and evil, exist at the same time in everything, just like the two sides of a coin." Just as in the eyes of most people, the evil West grasps the roots (d

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Among the dragons, there are also the Welsh red dragon, which is the protector of the country, and the Nordic Viking sea dragon, which is the guardian of the totem. Among the Chinese dragons, which generally symbolize auspiciousness, there are also evil dragons. For example, the Book of Han records that "thunder and lightning in midwinter, the hidden dragon is evil." Following the meteorite comet, the dimension, fill in the see, the eclipse has a hometown", "On Heng" has "the flood is monstrous, the snake and the dragon are harmful, Yao Sui makes Yu control the water", the Ming Dynasty "Wanli Ye was compiled": "The Han Dynasty said that Dianchi Lake is an evil dragon, and Yunnan Gai Kulong is a sin, and now it is a shock to express the difference", the ancient book of the Qing Dynasty "Yu Cong Kao": "Guan Kou Erlang God, is the ancestral hall Li Bing father and son. Ice, Qin Shi guarded its place, there were dragons for evil, and the ice was locked under the heap". [5] There have been records of dragons doing evil and evil throughout the ages, and in the final analysis, whether it is the Western dragon or the Chinese dragon, it is an extremely large ethnic group, which cannot be summarized as simple good and evil. In the 21st century, more people around the world have realized this, so there is no such thing as absolute good and absolutely bad in the world, and the judgment of good and bad is often related to the judge's own position - this is dialectical thinking. Although there is no conclusive and reliable evidence that the dragon actually exists in the objective world, it is clear that it is also in the dialectic of the legends left by mankind. Some Chinese scholars have proposed that the English translation of "Chinese dragon" be changed to "loo", which is close to the pronunciation of Chinese

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”。 Background of the dragon production Editor In the early days, social productivity was low, people survived in the harsh natural environment, and could not independently control the natural forces, nor could they explain their own origins, they were full of illusions, longings and even fears of the natural world, and worshiped various natural or supernatural forces that were more powerful than humans, which was the social basis for the emergence of totems and ghosts. The time of the formation of the dragon totem can be traced back to the ancient Fuxi era. According to historical records, Fu Xi, the ancestor of China, once witnessed a strange beast with a dragon's head and a horse's body in the Yellow River, and was moved, so he invented gossip, and since then he has used the dragon as a tribal mark, known as the dragon master. The officials of the Fuxi tribe were all named after dragons. There are Haoying Qianlong Clan, Dating Julong Clan, Chaos Descending Dragon Clan, Yinkang Tulong Clan, and Lilu Water Dragon Clan. The entire Fuxi tribe is a country of the Dragon Clan. In modern times, there is a popular saying that Busan, which originated from the Yellow Emperor. "Historical Records: The Five Emperors" records: After defeating Emperor Yan and Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor toured the Quartet and "fit Busan". This "merger" not only unified the letter of the military orders of the various ministries and established a political alliance, but also took some elements from the original totems of each tribe and combined them to create a new animal image - dragon. Since then, all tribes in the Central Plains have a common dragon totem, and the history of unified Chinese civilization has begun, so the Chinese are all "descendants of the dragon". Although this story explains how the dragon that existed in the unnatural world became the ancestor of the Chinese nation, the discovery of the dragon image in the prehistoric cultural site made it self-defeating. Most modern scholars believe that the dragon totem evolved from other animal totems. In the early days, the "snake evolution theory" was widely representative, and when the snake evolved into a dragon, we naturally became "the descendants of the dragon". In practice, however, the idea of a descendant of the dragon did not become popular until after the May Fourth Movement. Types of Dragon Dragons Editor Qinglong: It is one of the "Four Saints", "Four Elephants" (Qinglong, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Xuanwu) and "Four Spirits of Heaven", also known as Canglong, representing the East and cyan, so it is called "Oriental Green Dragon". Qinglong Yinglong: also known as the flying dragon, also known as the yellow dragon. The dragon with wings on its back, the literature about Ying Long can be found in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", which says that Ying Long lives in the south, "so it rains in the south", and the candle dragon "does not eat or sleep, and the wind and rain are admonishable", that is, it often attracts wind and rain. [6] According to the "Records of Differences": "Jiao turned into a dragon for a thousand years, a dragon for 500 years as a horned dragon, and a thousand years as a dragon." It is said that Emperor Xuanyuan's famous general was Ying Long, and his main achievements were to kill Chiyou and praise his father. 虺 (huǐ): "The Chronicle of Differences" contains: "虺 has turned into a dragon for five hundred years, and Jiao has turned into a dragon for a thousand years." "It's the juvenile stage of the dragon. 虬 (qiú): 虬龙 is a small dragon with horns in ancient legends, and it is said to be a young dragon without horns. "Saying Wen Jie Zi": The dragon has no horns. Each book is a dragon with horns. Today, according to the rhyme club, it is correct. However, the rhyme will still be mistaken with many words. Li Shan's note "Ganquan Fu" quotes "Shuowen", the dragon has no horns. 螭 (chī): A serpentine monster of the genus Dragon, a dragon-like creature without horns. The dragon is like a dragon, and the north of the yellow is called the land mole. Yinglong Jiao (jiāo): Generally refers to a scaly dragon that can cause floods. Ceratosaurus: Refers to a dragon with horns. According to the "Narrative of Differences": "Jiao turned into a dragon for a thousand years, and the dragon became a horned dragon for 500 years." Fire Dragon: "Qing Historical Manuscript" contains: "There is a dragon flying into the folk building in Fushan, and the smoke must rise, and the building will be burned", "On May 27, 26 years, the red dragon of Jiazhou was seen in the siege of Zhangti and Liangchuan. On the seventh day of the first month of June, the Gaoping fire dragon was seen in Shimo Village", "In June of the fifty-sixth year, the red dragon of Juzhou was seen in Longwangyu, first big and then small, several zhang long, and the grass and trees passed were like burning". Beaulieu Dragon: Refers to the dragon that lies dormant on the ground and has not ascended to the sky, and the shape of the dragon is coiled around. In ancient Chinese architecture, the dragon coiled on the pillar and the dragon that adorned the beams and ceilings were all customarily called dragons. In the "Taiping Yulan", there is another explanation for the dragon: "The dragon, four feet long, blue-black, red belt like brocade, often go down with the water, into the sea. Poisonous, wounding kills. "I mixed the dragon with the dragon and the snake. Cloud Dragon: A dragon entwined in clouds and mist. Wanglong: A dragon with a sideways head. Walking Dragon: Legend has it that the carp turns into a dragon, and when the dragon reaches a certain realm, it will turn into a walking dragon. Ichthyosaurus: Ichthyosaurus is a dragon with a dragon's head and a fish's body, and it is also a form of "Arowana interchange", which has existed since ancient times. There is a record in "Shuo Yuan" that "the cold abyss under the white dragon in the past turned into a fish", and the carp jumping over the dragon gate in folk circulation tells about the relationship between the dragon and the fish. Ichthyosaurus Mirage: A mirage that inhabits the coast or the estuaries of large rivers, and looks very similar to Jiao, and may also be one of them. The mirage has the incredible ability to see all kinds of phantoms from the breath that comes out of the mouth. Most of these apparitions are pavilions, luxurious that no one has ever seen, and from the windows you can see people in gorgeous clothes moving. This is often referred to as a mirage. In addition, in some classics, the "derivatives" of dragons are also recorded, such as "Five Miscellaneous Warriors": dragons are the most lewd, so if they have sex with cows, they will give birth to lin; If you have sex with a pig, you will have an image; If you have sex with a horse, you will give birth to a dragon horse...... Historical Origins of Dragons Edit Paleontologists have long believed that the horned dragon is a fictional image of ancient ancestors, which only exists in myths and legends. In 1987, the "first dragon in China" was found in Yangshao cultural site in the west of Puyang County, Henan Province, and the unearthed clam dragon is the earliest dragon pattern found in Chinese archaeology so far, about 6,600 years ago. However, the fossil of the "New Chinese Dragon" unearthed in 1996 in Xinpu Township, Guanling County, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, has a symmetrical pair of "dragon horns" on the dragon's head, which is very similar to the mythical dragon, which has attracted the attention of paleontologists. The fossil is collected in the Xingwei Paleontology and Fossil Museum in Anshun City, Guizhou Province, it is very well preserved, the total length is 7.6 meters, the dragon horn grows from the widest part of the head on the left and right sides, the double horns are symmetrical, about 27 centimeters long, slightly arc-shaped, this pair of "dragon horns" is upturned on the dragon's head, which resembles the image of the legendary dragon. The "dragon horn" of the "New China Dragon" fossil in Guanling, Guizhou Province was discovered for the first time in China, which provides physical evidence for the long-horned dragon in ancient legends, and provides a new idea for the study of the origin of the dragon's image, which has great scientific and historical value. Xinpu "New Chinese Dragon" It can be seen that perhaps the "dragon" has a real or roughly real ancient prototype in the body, but the function is mythologized. As a totem, the dragon is different from ordinary totems, not a single animal but a collection of multiple animals, which prominently reflects the great national spirit and thought of the Chinese nation. The earliest gods of ancient mythology were not humans, but animals - totems. Primitive people can't distinguish the boundary between humans and animals, and think that a certain animal is their ancestor and protector, which is the totem. As the ancestor and symbol of the clan and tribe, the totem is generally a single animal, and the clan tribe has a annexation war, and the victor often destroys its totem at the same time after capturing the other party, and the newly created tribe still has a single totem. The ancient Chinese were the first to realize human nature, abandoning the concept of the jungle, and prominently expressed this human nature in the formation of the dragon totem. That is: in order to unite and get close to those who have been annexed to the clans and tribes, after eliminating this clan or tribe, they do not completely eliminate their totems of spiritual worship and cultural sustenance, but add part of the totems of the losers to their own totems. Therefore, the image of the dragon is a symbol of harmony and unity, showing an extremely precious spirit of harmony of the ancient ancestors of the Chinese nation, and is a source of the spirit of the Chinese nation. The image of the dragon contains a variety of animal elements, and many people have discussed its origin based on only one characteristic, so various theories have been given about the prototype of the dragon. One of the most influential is that the prototype of the dragon is said to be a snake. Famous scholar Wen Yiduo in the 20th century in the 40s on the discussion of the prototype of the dragon, according to its research, the original prototype of the dragon totem is the snake totem, after the elimination of the cow totem, the deer totem of the clan, the horns or antlers added to the head of the snake, and later added the head of the pig or the head of the horse, plus the legs of the tiger or crocodile, the claws of the eagle, the scales of the fish, the tail of the flower, after a long period of development, the collection of many totems has formed the image of the Chinese dragon totem. After hearing more, many scholars also believe that the prototype of the dragon is a snake. There is also a saying that the prototype of the dragon is a crocodile, and the first to propose that the prototype of the dragon is a crocodile is Wei Juxian, an expert in ancient Chinese history. In his 1934 book, he said that "the dragon is the crocodile", and some foreign scholars also believe that the dragon is a crocodile. In addition, some people believe that the basic form of the dragon's trunk is a snake, a lizard, and a horse, while others believe that the dragon evolved from lightning or a rainbow. Xu Shan of Soochow University interpreted the word "dragon" in the oracle bone inscription, and believed that the dragon character can be regarded as a deformation of "electricity and thunder" compared with the words "electricity and thunder" compared with the oracle bone glyphs. The dragon character retains the curved shape of lightning, and the symbol "mouth", which represents thunder, is moved to the terminal at the bend to indicate the mouth of the dragon. The mouth opening in the word dragon is facing downward, indicating that rain is pouring down from the dragon's mouth. The emergence of the concept of dragon is a biological explanation of the cause of thunder and lightning by the primitive ancestors. In the variant of the character "dragon", the glyph is to add "xin" above the shape of the dragon. Xin, the oracle bone glyph is shaped like an axe splitting a tree. From this meaning, the instruments of torture are derived. In the word "dragon", "Xin" is located above the dragon shape, and it can be seen from the semantics of Xin and the upper and lower structure of the character that this "dragon" character reflects the psychological state of the primitive ancestors who were afraid of the dragon (Thor) and tried to conquer and control it. "Jiyun" includes the variant character "竜" under the word "dragon". The upper part of the character is the same as the upper left of the character "dragon", which is the subordinate form of the oracle bone inscription "Xin". The form and meaning of "Ryu" is the conquest of thunder and lightning. This glyph confirms that the prototype of the dragon is thunder and lightning. Judging by the pronunciation of the word dragon, "ló."

g" is the record of the rumbling sound of thunder. In China, the dragon has gone through four major stages of development: the totem worship stage, the god worship stage, the stage of combining the worship of the dragon god with the worship of the emperor, and the stage of combining the worship of the Naga dragon in Buddhism with the worship of the Chinese dragon.

During the totem worship stage, certain tribes in ancient China regarded the dragon as a totem as the ancestor and symbol of their own tribe. According to historical documents and relevant legends, the dragon (originally in the form of a snake) was originally the totem of the Fuxi clan, and later became the totem of the Taihui (Taihao) tribe. The Taihui tribe is one of the most important origins of dragon totem worship.

In the stage of god worship, agriculture and animal husbandry gradually took shape, and religious beliefs were also developed, transitioning from a relatively single totem worship to polytheistic worship. Dragon totem worship also developed into dragon god worship. People deified the dragon and worshipped the dragon as the god of water and the rainbow.

After the dragon was deified, it was combined with the worship of the emperor. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the dragon pattern was officially used as the coat of arms of the Son of Heaven and a symbol of power. At this time, the emperor of the Shang and Zhou dynasties hung the Jiuhan dragon flag and wore a dragon gon to worship the first king. During the Qin and Han dynasties, the great unification of China required a great god to adapt to it in order to integrate the beliefs of various places and ethnic groups, and dragon worship was further combined with emperor worship. Ancient Chinese emperors presented themselves as the incarnation or son of the dragon god, or as a person protected by the dragon god, and used the dragon to establish their prestige and gain the general trust and support of the people. In this way, the dragon gained a more prominent status and played a very important role in the development of Chinese dragon culture.

During the Warring States period, the five-colored dragon worship and the dragon god belief were formed. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there were five elements of gods, respectively, with the five elements of the gods are the dragon, tiger, phoenix, turtle and unicorn, the dragon is just one of them, and the wood god Goumang matched, and the concept of the five dragons has not yet been formed. By the Warring States period, the concept of the Five Dragons began to take shape.

Finally, there is the stage of combining the Buddhist Naga dragon worship with the Chinese dragon worship. During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Buddhism spread rapidly in China, and the worship of the dragon king in Buddhism was also introduced to China. In China's native dragon worship, there was originally only dragon god worship, not dragon king worship, which was introduced after the introduction of Buddhism. With the spread of Buddhism, the dragon king, the dragon palace, and the dragon lady also spread rapidly.

However, since ancient times, China has a five-color dragon and the four sea gods, the dragon god belief, before the Song Dynasty, the dragon god was called the dragon god, until the Song Dynasty Huizong sealed the five dragons as the king, the dragon ** Yang began to become popular, it can be said that the dragon king of the four seas, the five emperors dragon king is from the local dragon god of the imperial court, the Taoist dragon king evolved from the local dragon god of China, is the direct suzerain of the dragon king of the four seas in the later gods and demons novels, the dragon king of the four seas and the five emperor dragon kings are the evolution of the five dragon gods of Chinese native blood.