The dragon has rabbit eyes, antlers, bull's mouth, hump head, mirage, tiger paws, eagle claws, fish scales, snake body, and the image of nine animals in one (also known as the nine dislikes). However, there is another saying that the dragon is composed of nine kinds of animals: "shrimp eyes", "antlers", "bull's mouth", "dog nose", "catfish's whiskers", "lion's mane", "eagle claws", "fish scales" and "snake tail".

The five-clawed golden dragon was the symbol of the Chinese emperor, and in feudal society it was stipulated that it could only be used by the emperor. When other royal family members and places need to use dragon shapes, they can only use "four-clawed dragons".

The emblem of the Emperor

The Emperor of China 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 shape were to use the "four-clawed dragon" (i.e., "python") to distinguish it. The implication is that "only the emperor is the true dragon", and the other "four-clawed dragons" are "pythons" instead of "dragons". The Korean dragon has four claws, and the Japanese dragon has three claws, which is due to the restrictions imposed by the ancient Chinese emperors on the surrounding countries.

In mythology, the five-clawed golden dragon is golden yellow, with five toes in its claws. The eyes are like red candles, and he is the king of dragons.

origin

There is no fixed theory about the origin of dragons, one of the more accepted theories in the academic community is that dragons are totemic changes taken from ancient Chinese tribes. After the tribal war, the victor swallowed the loser, and took a part of the loser's totem to add to his own totem, and formed the shape of the "dragon" in the process of the tribes constantly annexing each other, which is why the "dragon" has a variety of animal collection forms.