What does hydra mean?

Hydra is an animal similar to water snake in ancient legends of China. Hydra can be found in Ren Liang's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Southern Dynasties: "Hydra turned into a dumpling in 500 years, and a dumpling into a dragon in 1000 years; In another 500 years, the ceratosaurus will become Ying Long in a thousand years. " It means that hydra can become a dragon after 500 years of practice, and a dragon after thousands of years of practice. After becoming a dragon, it takes 500 years of practice to become a dragon, and finally it takes thousands of years of refining to become a Ying Long.

Octopus: It's a kind of dragon. It's imagined based on reptile-snake, and it's often 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 Hualong, which appeared on bronze decorations in the late Western Zhou Dynasty, but not much.

Mr. Qiu Shijing thinks: "The (dragon) pattern is similar to the (dragon) pattern, but the pattern is slightly simplified and the dragon body is more vivid." Mr. Ma Chengyuan thinks: "Plain pattern is the pattern of a snake."

Lizard lizard, or "slug" in ancient books. The poem of the first month: "Hu is a lizard", which has always been regarded as a lizard by theorists. So it can be seen that the words' slug' and' lizard' were very common in ancient times. Slug is a famous Shan Gui in ancient legends of China, and its prototype is lizard.