In China, the dragon culture and the legend of the dragon contain the world view that China people attach importance to the unity of man and nature; The appeal of the concept of mutual subject of love; The development view of yin-yang intercourse; The inclusive view of multiculturalism. Dragons have rich cultural connotations. From the nature and connotation, dragon culture can be divided into three types: religious dragon, political dragon and artistic dragon.
Religious dragon gods worship dragons as sacred objects or gods, and regard dragons as the dominant or protective rain gods. The political dragon is that the ruling class takes advantage of people's universal worship of the dragon and describes the emperor as the incarnation of the dragon god, which is sacred and inviolable to safeguard the rule.
Extended Data Dragon is a miraculous animal in ancient myths and legends in East Asia, such as China, and the leader of scale insects. Often used as a symbol of good luck, it is one of the most representative traditional cultures of East Asian nations such as Han nationality, and the legend of dragon is very rich.
The most basic feature of the dragon image is "nine similarities", and these nine animals are still controversial. Legend has it that it can be hidden, detailed and huge, short and long. The vernal equinox ascends to the sky, the autumnal equinox dives into the deep, and it calls for rain, and these are the images of dragons developed in the later period, which are more complicated than the original dragons.
Dragon background:
The productivity of early society was low, and people lived in a harsh natural environment, unable to control the natural forces independently and unable to explain their own sources. They are full of illusions, longings and even fears about nature, and worship all kinds of natural or supernatural forces that are more powerful than human beings. This is the social foundation of totem and ghosts and gods.
The reason for the formation of dragon totem is the Busan symbol originated from the Yellow Emperor. According to Records of the Five Emperors, after defeating Emperor Yan and Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor visited all directions and "joined forces with Busan". This "symbol combination" not only unified the military symbols of various ministries and established a political alliance, but also combined some elements from the totem of primitive tribes to create a new animal image-dragon.
Since then, all tribes in the Central Plains have had the same dragon totem, thus opening the history of unifying Chinese civilization. China people are all "descendants of dragons".
Although this story perfectly explains how unnatural dragons became the ancestors of the Chinese nation, the discovery of dragon images in prehistoric cultural sites makes it self-defeating.
Most modern scholars believe that dragon totems evolved from other animal totems. In the early days, snake evolution theory was widely representative. When snakes evolved into dragons, we naturally became "descendants of dragons". ?
But in fact, the saying of the descendants of dragons didn't catch on until after the May 4th Movement.
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