(Dragon in film and television drama)
Let's take a look at some details of the dragon.
In the famous Songhua River dragon falling incident, the description of the dragon is probably like this: it is more than 0/0 meter long, with a small bull's head, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, and a flat shovel-like short horn. The face is similar to the dragon in the painting, with seven or eight long beards, thick and hard, and still shaking. The mouth is more than 30 centimeters long, like a catfish mouth.
Four claws, the back part of the hind leg is particularly long, eight or nine meters. There are scales on the body, which look like carp scales. He has a strong smell, which attracts many flies. Residents nearby built a shed on it and kept splashing water on it to keep it moist. There was a heavy rain that night, and the next day Tianlong disappeared.
The general description of the dragon is like this. We can see that the image of this dragon is slightly different from the traditional dragon. For example, a dragon horn without a long fork, a mouth like a catfish, and a tail account for a much larger proportion of the body. In other words, we have abandoned the image of the dragon in the painting, and the description of the dragon falling in Songhua River is closer to some common animals, for example, the whole is more like a big lizard.
In fact, it seems that the records of dragon descending in past dynasties are trying hard? Shape? A dragon with biological characteristics.
(Yingkou dragon falling incident)
When studying dragons, we must put aside myths and stories, and don't regard dragons as gods. Look for more examples and you will know after reading them. This was recorded in Sui Shu. In the fifth year of Jiande in the later Zhou Dynasty, the Black Dragon fell to Bozhou and died. ?
Ming's Ning records:? One night in Chenghua, there was a thunderstorm, and a huge object crushed the seedlings, several acres wide, and it was a dragon falling. Ten days later, the scales will rot, and the people will pick up their teeth and return their bones. ?
In other words, the dragon is not a god. If it falls, it will probably die.
Even if the dragon does not die, it is basically accidental injury (or too weak), which is helpless. Like the Songhua River falling dragon mentioned above, it should be injured.
Records of the Tang Dynasty recorded the good governance of Tongcheng County in Zhou Shu during Xian Tong's reign. Tsing lung fights to death in court? . Original description? The clouds are thundering. Do you smell the touch in the clouds? Then an injured dragon fell.
You can see that the dragon will be injured and die. It smells like a lizard.
Therefore, the dragons recorded in history are closer to real creatures.
The most difficult thing to explain about the dragon falling incident and all the descriptions about dragons is that the dragon has no wings. How did it fly? If there are dragons, why can't we find fossil evidence?
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Yes, how can you fly without wings? We can only guess from the dragon-dropping incident. A large number of such events have recorded that the weak dragon can leave quickly in case of heavy rain, just like replenishing energy, but people throw water on it, but it has no effect, that is, it can alleviate its weakness.
So the dragon needs not only water, but some factors of rainstorm weather, such as lightning or strong wind. This may explain why the dragon's body structure and the conditions it needs to fly are not easy to meet, so we can't use it. Common sense? Got it.
As for why the fossils of dragons can't be found, it's really hard to explain, maybe it's hard to preserve, or maybe their burial place has not been discovered.
In a word, the dragon-falling incident shows that the people have never regarded the dragon as an untouchable god, but a rare creature.