Hongshuilong
Generally speaking, it refers to a scaly dragon that can cause floods. According to legend, the water of the dragon can make clouds and fog and soar in space. In ancient Chinese, it is often used to mean that talented people get the opportunity to display their talents. There are different opinions about the origin and shape of jiaozi in classical literature, some say that "dragons have no horns and are called jiaozi", while others say that "scales are called Xiaolong". The third volume of Mo Ke Dao Rhinoceros is more specific: Jiao is shaped like a snake, with a head like a tiger and an elder of dozens of feet. Most of them live under the caves in Xitan, and their voices are like cattle. If Jiao sees the shore,
Pedestrians on the edge or in the valley, that is, with foul saliva around their mouths, make people fall into the water, that is, suck people's blood under their armpits until the blood is exhausted. People on shore and on board often suffer from it. There is a story in Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu in the Southern Song Dynasty, saying that he went into the water for three days and three nights at the beginning of the week to chop jiaozi back. Jiao may be a crocodile.
One-legged dragon monster in ancient China legend
The imaginary one-legged monster is the embryonic stage of the dragon. The description of Kui in Shan Hai Jing Ye Dong Jing is: "It looks like an ox, pale and hornless. When you enter and leave the water, there will be wind and rain. Its light is like the sun and the moon, and its sound is like thunder, so it is called Wei Xiao ". But more ancient books say that Wei Xiao is a snake monster. "Hey, God is charming, like a dragon's foot." ("Shuo Wen Jie Zi") "Hey, one foot? Go away. " (Liu Tie) In the bronze decoration in the late Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, the dragon pattern was one of the main decorative patterns, and the image was mostly a long strip with a long mouth and a curly tail. Its shape is suitable for the structural lines of bronze decorative surfaces, with straight lines as the main part and arcs as the auxiliary part, which has the aesthetic feeling of Gu Zhuo.
Hu (Hui nationality)
It is an early kind of dragon, which is modeled on a reptile-snake and often moves in the water. "It takes five hundred years to become a jiaozi, and it takes a thousand years to become a dragon." It is the embryonic form of the dragon, which once appeared on the bronze decoration in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, but not much.
curly
Generally speaking, a small dragon without horns is called a kind of dragon, and it is a growing dragon. Therefore, the ancient literature records: "The horn is called autumn, and the horn is called dragon." The other is that the young dragon is called autumn after it has horns. Although there are differences between the two statements. But everyone is called the growing Longqiu. Others call the dragon of Panqu the dragon, and Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, has a sentence of "A thousand plays play a sheep's intestines" in his poem "Talking about Qingyun".
curl
Refers to a dragon that sleeps on the ground and does not ascend to heaven. The shape of a dragon is coiled. In ancient buildings in China, dragons coiled on pillars and dragons on decorative beams and ceilings are customarily called Panlong. There is another explanation for Panlong in "Taiping Magnolia": "Panlong is four feet long, blue-black, with a brocade-like red belt, and often goes down with the water and into the sea. Toxic, it hurts. " I mix dragons with jiaozi, snakes and things like that.