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The dragon is a beast that has been a political-cultural symbol of China for thousands of years.
The first hexagram of the Book of Changes, with dry as the sky, and the dragon as the representative of the sky. "Saying Wen Jie Zi Dragon Department": "Dragon, the length of the scale insect, can be dark and bright, can be small and huge, can be short and long." The spring equinox ascends to the sky, and the autumn equinox dives into the abyss. "Ascending to the sky is the clouds and rain, and the abyss is dormant in the water. The dragon is the chief of water insects, and it is inseparable from the dragon.
Since the dragon represents the sky, the Son of Heaven is of course the son of the dragon. The emperor of China has always regarded himself as the son of the dragon, commonly known as the true son of the dragon. For example, the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, known as the ancestral dragon, is to take the dragon as the image of the Son of Heaven.
Liu Bang is a commoner emperor and has no aristocratic background, what should I do? I had to make up a nonsense, pretending to be the myth of Liu Lei's royal dragon, saying that his mother Liu Yuan (he is surnamed with his mother) was taken by Jiaolong, so he was born.
Rui beasts are mostly imaginary animals.
Imaginary animals are all used to put different animals together, and the more different they are, the more they have to be put together. For example, birds and beasts have no horns on their heads, so they have to have horns, and they have no wings on their shoulders, so they have to have wings.
Chinese and foreign art have such imaginary animals (such as the Sphinx, Ramasus, Winged Lion, Griffin, Unicorn, etc. in the West).
The Chinese dragon, a late image, can be cited as the bronze dragon in front of the Renshou Hall in the Summer Palace (Fig. 1).
The ancients said that the dragon body is divided into three sections, imitating nine kinds of animals, and integrating the characteristics of a variety of animals. But imagination must always have a reference, careful observation, it is not difficult for us to find that this kind of composite image still refers to some real animals.
There is still reality in the imagination.
The standard image of the dragon, the bronze dragon in front of the Renshou Hall in the Summer Palace.
In ancient China, animals were divided into five insects: feathers, feathers, scales, me, and beetles.
Feather insects are birds (birds), caterpillars are beasts (mainly mammals), scale insects are reptiles and fish, insects have bones outside the meat (reptiles such as turtles and turtles, shrimps, crabs and shellfish of the nail shells), and beetles are naked** (as small as the larvae of insects and as large as humans known as naked apes).
The phoenix is the length of the feather insect, the lin is the length of the caterpillar, the dragon is the length of the scale insect, the turtle is the length of the insect, and the man is the length of the beetle (it is also the length of the five spirits, and the apes of today are called primates).
Dragons, phoenixes, lins, and turtles are all beasts. The Rui beasts in front of the Renshou Hall of the Summer Palace are dragons, phoenixes, and lins, and the Rui beasts in front of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City are turtles and cranes.
What is the reference of the dragon, the main body? There are different opinions, and reptiles should be the right thing.
Chinese often refer to lizards or lizard-like animals as dragons, and modern translations still retain this custom. Such as crocodiles, the ancient saying is called Jiaolong, dragon; Lizards, today called skink, chameleon.
When we think of dragons, we think of dinosaurs. It is impossible to prove that the ancients may have seen dinosaur fossils and created the image of a dragon.
Dinosaurs dominated the Mesozoic Era (25.1 billion years ago to 66 million years ago), now only fossils. This behemoth, now called a dinosaur, is translated by the Japanese according to Chinese customs, and the original Spanish meaning is simply "terrifying lizard".
After the extinction of the dinosaurs, there are four kinds of reptiles that have survived to this day, one is called crocodiles, two is called lizards, three is called snakes, and four is called turtles and turtles, and they are suitable candidates.