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Han Feizi of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period believed:
The dragon can be tamed, not only can it be played, but it can even be ridden like a horse.
This is treating the dragon as an animal.
The dragon is also a worm, and it is soft and riding;But there is a scale under his throat, and if a man has a baby, he will kill. - Han Feizi, Difficult to Say".However, in the documentary "The Legend of Monsters", the sentence "Fulong is a worm" is translated as "The dragon is a large insect", which I don't think is very correct.
Because, in ancient times, "worm" was actually a collective term for all animals.
It is recorded in the "Dadai Li Ji" that the ancients divided all animals into five categories: "scales, feathers, and feathers", collectively known as "five insects":
Birds are called "feathered insects", with the phoenix as the head;
The beasts are called "caterpillars", with the unicorn as the head;
Insects and aquariums with carapace are called "insects", with the spirit turtle being the first one
Scaly animals (such as fish, lizards, snakes, and winged insects) are called "scale insects", led by dragons
Humans, earthworms, frogs and other naked**scaleless creatures are called "silverfish" or "worms", with saints at their head.
There are three hundred and sixty feathered insects, and the phoenix is long;There are three hundred and sixty hairy insects, and the unicorn is long;There are three hundred and sixty beetles, and the turtle is long;There are three hundred and sixty insects with scales, and the dragon is long;There are three hundred and sixty insects, and the saints are long. - Da Dai Li Yi Ben Ming".Dragons belong to the class of scales.
Therefore, the phrase "the dragon is a worm" here should be interpreted as:"Dragons are a type of large animal".It's more appropriate.
And "Huainanzi" thinks,The dragon is an amphibious oviparous animal.
"Huainanzi" said: Fu Jiaolong lurks in Sichuan, and the egg is cut in the tomb.There are several types of dragon archetypes in the academic world:
One says it's a crocodile, a Chinese alligator.
One says it's a snake. One is that the snake totem tribe added a new totem formed by the animal totems of other tribes that it annexed.
None of the above three statements escaped the category of animals.
There is also a theory that the dragon prototype is not an animal, but a thunderbolt.
The reason is also quite funny, saying that the dragon character is in the shape of lightning (I don't see it very well), and the pronunciation of the dragon is the same as rumbling, and it is also like the sound of thunder and lightning (so I laughed unkindly when I saw this).