Chapter 50: The Golden Dragon
In Chinese culture, the dragon is a totem and a deity, and of course the dragon is combined with the image of the emperor. Dragons, phoenixes, turtles, and lins are the four spirits among the divine beasts. There are many sayings about dragons, as recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Dragons are long in scales." ”
Wang Fu of the Eastern Han Dynasty had a far-reaching view, he believed that the dragon has nine likenesses: 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.
Later generations have popular explanations, which are only slightly different from this: the horns are like deer, the head is like a cow, the eyes are like shrimp, the mouth is like a donkey, the belly is like a snake, the scales are like a fish, the feet are like a phoenix, the whiskers are like people, and the ears are like elephants.
What can be known is that the dragon's back has eighty-one scales and has 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.
Everyone thinks that clouds are from dragons, because dragons can become clouds, which can turn into water and fire.
Dragons can be big and small, and can rise and hide: the big ones will spit out the clouds, and the small ones will hide the form; if they rise, they will soar between the universes, and if they are hidden, they will lurk in the waves.
Dragons really exist. There are not only specific descriptions and records, but also physical objects such as keels as evidence.
Not only that, but there is also a folk legend that "a dragon gives birth to nine sons, but does not become a dragon".
The eldest prisoner cow, likes music, squatting on the piano head;
The second child is eye-catching, thirsty for killing, engraved in the knife ring, sword handle swallowing;
The third laughs at the wind, resembles a beast, is dangerous and hopeful in life, and the beast on the corner of the temple is its relic;
The four sons of Pu Prison roared loudly when they were hit, and used as the beast button of the Hong Zhong to help it sound far away;
The five sons are sinister, shaped like lions, and like smoke and easy to sit, so the image generally appears on the incense burner, and then swallows smoke and spits smoke;
The six sons are under the hegemony, also known as the stumbling tun, like a turtle with teeth, like to bear weight, is a turtle under the stele;
The seven sons are fierce, resembling a tiger, good at lawsuits, and there are images on both sides of the prison door or the main hall of the official office;
Eight sons are burdened, like a dragon, Yahao Sven, coiled on the top of the stone tablet;
The old nine cockroach kiss, also known as the owl tail or owl kiss, the mouth is moist and the throat is rough and easy to swallow, so it becomes the swallowing beast at both ends of the temple ridge, and takes it to extinguish the fire and eliminate the disaster.
At this time, Lao Wang and Huang Bu were staring solemnly at the behemoth in the air in the distance. Although it is a phantom, and it is a hundred miles away, you can still see the face of this gentleman clearly, it is a hideous giant head!
With two golden eyes, golden horns, pale golden scales, and four strangely long tentacles, it was a huge dragon head.
"Golden Dragon!"
As soon as he saw the appearance of this head, Lao Wang suddenly cried out, and Huang Bu was also stunned on the spot.
Eighty years ago, there was a record of the fall of a real dragon in Yingkou, and seventy years ago, there was a record of the rescue of the black dragon in the Songhua River. However, the golden dragon is indeed rare to see in a thousand years.
And the next moment, the huge dragon head shook its head suddenly, and after a wave of turmoil in the nearby sky, the body was blurred, and only the dragon head was still staring at the two people in the distance.
It seems to be a threat, it seems to be a warning, it seems to be a surveillance, it seems to be a measurement.
Lao Wang did not evade, and looked directly at the golden dragon.
Huang Bu didn't look at it directly, because the dragon at the top of the true spirit naturally had a coercion on other species. Huang Bu is quite uncomfortable with this, while Lao Wang is different.
Because Lao Wang is a human being.
The primates of heaven and earth are human beings.
Human beings are the closest beings to God, and perhaps human beings are ordinary, but human beings have innate advantages. When other species have attained enlightenment, they all change into human form, and all of them are in the best state of heaven and earth because of this form.
They looked at each other for a while, but nothing happened.
I saw the huge dragon head shake again, and a huge body like a huge mountain range broke free from the void, and it was indeed a giant dragon with golden scales all over its body.
As soon as the golden dragon's whole body was revealed, the scales on the surface of the body flashed, and suddenly emitted a dazzling light.
Brighter than the scorching sun, more blazing than the scorching sun.
Even Lao Wang and Huang Bu subconsciously closed their eyes, and when the two of them opened their eyes again, the phantom appearance of the behemoth in front of them disappeared.
Surrounded by mountains, the green water is picturesque, a piece of mountains is undulating, and the whole mountain is like a sleeping real dragon, constantly exuding the vitality of heaven and earth. If someone watched from the sky, there was a strong illusion that the real dragon seemed to be about to soar into the sky and go straight into the sky.
Between the ups and downs of the mountains, a calm glacial lake is like a large piece of jade embedded in the earth, thousands of miles of Chengjiang River is like Bai Lian, and thousands of acres of glacial lakes are like mirrors!
In the distance, this glacial lake spreads out between the two mountain ranges, and I don't know where it leads. The length and width are dozens of miles, and the edge is unknown.
The whole picture is simply where the ice god snow fairy is. And in the center of the ice lake like a mirror, there is actually a small white jade building.
The dragon and jade phoenix are carved on the small building, faintly there are bursts of colorful glow emanating out, the whole body is like mutton fat white jade, the lake ice is like a mirror, the sky is washed, the lake and the sky are one color, blending with each other.
In front of the small building, a middle-aged man dressed as an ancient scribe sat on the white jade platform, his figure fluttering, and the moon white robe was not dusty, like a pale cyan pearl rolling on the jasper lotus leaf, which was smart and wonderful, and could be weathered at any time.
In fact, the moon is white, not white. It does not describe the bright white of the moonlight, but refers to the bluish color of the white under the moon, which seems to modern people to be like a light blue.
A kind of chrysanthemum cultivated by the ancients is called "white under the moon", the flower is blue and white, such as the moon view, describing the color of the flower as if the white flower blooms in the moonlight.
This person's eyes seemed to open and close, and one after another the vitality spread out from his body, and turned into a dragon shape. Under the sun, nine golden dragons flew in the air, and gradually grew stronger in the middle of the day, and their claws appeared. Within dozens of feet of the sky, there are dragons.
The difference is that the golden dragon only has four claws.
The leader of the ancient Chinese dragon was the highest king of the dragon family, ruling the entire royal family, and the five-clawed golden dragon did not really have five claws, but only five fingers on four claws.
At the same time, the Chinese emperor called himself the "True Dragon Son of Heaven", the embodiment of the "True Dragon" of the heavens. It was stipulated that only the emperor's belongings and clothes could be painted with the image of a "five-clawed golden dragon", and other places that needed to use the dragon form were distinguished by pythons.
Because the four claws are a python and the five claws are a dragon, the implication is that "only the emperor is the true dragon", and the other "four-clawed dragons" are also "pythons" instead of "dragons". In Korea, the dragon has four claws, and in Japan the dragon has three claws.
After about half an hour, the Nine Dragons flew more and more slowly, and became more and more solemn, and it turned out that the three dragons in the Nine Dragons gradually merged and devoured, and the situation was quite tragic.
In the end, there were only three golden dragons in the sky, but the appearance was more real, more powerful, and more intimidating.