This year is the Year of the Dragon, so let's talk about the stories we have heard about dragons!
Legend has it that the python turned into a dragon for 500 years and became a dragon for a thousand years! How long do snakes live and how big can they get?
Here's a story about my hometown: I heard from my grandfather and the older generation in the village, when they were young, one midsummer afternoon, a few people had just gone down to work in the fields. A gust of wind blew, and in just a few minutes, the dark clouds covered the sky and the sun, and the lightning was accompanied by bursts of thunder, feeling like the sky was going to tear apart, and it looked like the heavy rain was coming. Just as they were about to go home, a boulder slipped from a short distance, and several people looked over in unison, and saw a large python with a red cockscomb as thick as a basin, which had already poked out half of its body from the hole under the rock, and several people were so frightened that they ran back to the village without taking a breath.
But when someone who dared heard about it, he seemed very excited, and he was about to pick up a shotgun to fight, and called a few strong young men in the village to be his companions. Before he left, he was stopped by the old man in the village, and the old man said that you can't afford to provoke that thing, but at this time, a few young people will listen to the old man. In the end, the old man did not stop him, and several people went anyway, and when they reached the higher hillside, they saw that the snake was still curled up in a clearing under the rock, and its head was raised very high, as if waiting for something. They squatted on the slope dozens of meters away from the snake, and saw very clearly, the snake was very cautious, and there was a cold air all around it, which made people shudder, and two of the few people who came to accompany them were so frightened that they ran back directly, and the rest of the people did not dare to have other thoughts, and they all ran away, and the torrential rain hit completely on the way they turned back. On that day, the sky was like torn apart by thunder and lightning, and the thatched houses of some villagers were overturned all night, and many places were flooded, and everywhere was in a mess, and many people in the village did not sleep that night.
The next day, the sky cleared, and a few brave people in the village, driven by curiosity, ran there to see if the big snake was still there, and the snake was gone. However, it was found that there was a huge landslide that had slid into the reservoir a few hundred meters below the mountain, and the farmland in between was completely destroyed, and from a distance, the mountain looked as if it had been cut off by a large knife. The old man in the back said that depending on the situation, it "went away", and everywhere it walked would collapse. How big is the snake? Grandpa said that the tail was as thick as the mouth of a bowl.
Later, at a meal, I told a friend about a beautiful woman who lived next to the reservoir when she was a child, and she said that she heard cows barking from time to time near the reservoir in March and April. Once, she saw an animal swimming in the water with only one head exposed, and it looked a little like a cow's head, but she was very sure that it was not a cow, and she was still young and did not know what it was.
Why is he always there? Is the dragon a real thing? Or totem worship? Why is there only an apocryphal dragon in the zodiac? For all sorts of reasons, it is because the dragon is our spiritual and cultural worship, and the related illusion is generated!
What do you think? Feel free to comment in the comment section!