Why are we the descendants of the dragon, but not the song "There are two dragons in the far east", which people do not have a few rivers at home, the Ganges, the Euphrates, the Nile, the Rhine ......But why are we descendants of the dragon?
1. Qinglong creates heaven and earth.
Let's start with the green dragon of the four sacred beasts, in ancient times, people believed that the green dragon created heaven and earth, four dimensions, life and death, and all things. In the first century B.C., Liu An, the king of Huainan in the Western Han Dynasty, and his disciples compiled the "Huainanzi Tianwenxun" poetry collection: "The noble of the gods is not more valuable than the green dragon, or Tianyi, or Taiyin, where the green dragon lives, and cannot be carried ......."Heaven and earth are set ......The four dimensions are passed, or death or life, all things are completed", when Taoism was founded in the Han Dynasty, it absorbed the old god system, incorporated the four gods such as Qinglong into its own god system, and called Qinglong Mengzhang Shenjun.
Meng Zhang Shenjun. Taoism inherited and evolved the Huainanzi narrative that the green dragon, the white tiger, the vermilion bird, and the Xuanwu created the world.
The Mixed Yuan Eight Views Sutra and the Yuan Shi Immeasurable Sutra believe that there were 500 million heavens and earths at the beginning of the birth of the world created by the four spirits of heaven, and the four gods such as the green dragon and the white tiger were the masters of at least 500 million heaven and earth.
2. He is a descendant of Yan and Huang, and he is naturally a descendant of the dragon.
In the 6th-7th centuries AD, the Tang Dynasty historian, Sima Zhen (
Digression: Why are there more historians with the surname Sima, Sima is an official position in ancient times, and later took the official as the surname and became one of the surnames, the post of Sima began to be established in the Western Zhou Dynasty, in ancient times, your ancestors did not have a big official, how can you be qualified to study history.
The book "Supplement to the Three Emperors" said that Fuxi's "has Long Rui, with the dragon discipline official, called the dragon master". Fuxi is the green dragon, the green emperor. The Qingdi is the first emperor of ancient times, and the Qinglong is the first dragon of the Chinese nation. Yandi Shennong's clan is a red dragon; The Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan is the Yellow Dragon. According to the Records of the Five Emperors, the Yellow Emperor unified the tribes and created the supreme image of the god - the dragon after defeating Emperor Yan and Chī yóu. From Fuxi, the "first ancestor of humanity" in China, to Emperor Yan and Emperor Huangdi unified all tribes in China, therefore, the Chinese nation is also called "descendants of Yan and Huang". Later, after the unification of China by King Yingzheng of Qin, he thought that the title of the king in the past could not show his respect, and compared himself to the Yellow Emperor, so he created the title of "emperor", and later the emperor of China was called "the true dragon son of heaven", this dragon is naturally the yellow dragon, with yellow as the respect, and the dragon robe is also yellow.
3. "Dragon King of the Four Seas" in the Tang and Song dynasties. In the Tang and Song dynasties, Taoism used the name of the dragon king in Buddhism, and the dragon king evolved from the local dragon god in China, and evolved into the red dragon king, the black dragon king, the yellow dragon king, and the white dragon king, each with different characteristics and symbolic meanings. Among them, the color of the Red Dragon King is red, which symbolizes flames; The color of the Yellow Dragon King is yellow, which symbolizes **; The color of the White Dragon King is white, which symbolizes the snow; The color of the Blue Dragon King is blue, which symbolizes the ocean.
Dragon King of the Four Seas. 4. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a "dragon giving birth to nine sons". Li Dongyang's "Huailu Tang Collection" of the Ming Dynasty recorded that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, with different forms and advantages.
The dragon gave birth to nine sons. They are: the boss prisoner cow, fond of **, squatting on the headstock; Lao Er's 睚眦 (yá zì), a thirst for killing and fighting, carved into the knife ring and the hilt of the sword; The third laughs at the wind, resembles a beast, is the third, life is dangerous and hopeful, and the beast on the corner of the temple is its posthumous image. Some people have always believed that it is a phoenix with dragon veins; 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 of the incense burner (suān ní), shaped like a lion, like smoke and easy to sit, so the image generally appears on the incense burner, and then swallows smoke and spits smoke; Liuzi Baxia, also known as 赑屃 (bì xì), like a turtle with teeth, likes to bear weight, is a turtle under the stele; Seven sons 狴犴 (bì àn), resembling a tiger and a lawsuit, have its image on both sides of the prison door or the main hall of the official office; Eight sons negative 屃 (fù xì), body like a dragon, Yahao Siwen, coiled on the top of the stone tablet; The old nine cheek kiss (chī wěn), also known as the owl tail or owl (chī) kiss, has a moist mouth and a rough throat and is easy to swallow, so it becomes a spine swallowing beast at both ends of the temple ridge, and takes it to extinguish the fire and eliminate the disaster.