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: "The flat pattern is the decorative pattern of the coiled snake."
lizard, or' slug' in ancient books. Poem Xiaoya in the First Month: "Hu is a lizard", which has been regarded as a lizard by all previous commentators. It can be seen that the words' slug' and' lizard' are common in ancient times. The slug is a famous mountain ghost in ancient legends, and its prototype was originally a lizard.
Mr. He Xin's book Talking about Dragons and Phoenix says: "The prototype of dragons comes from ancient alligators and lizards, and is supported by many evidences such as documents and archaeological relics. On this basis, a new method of understanding and interpretation is constructed through language analysis (paying special attention to analyzing the living language preserved in ancient documents, that is, oral materials). This theory has been accepted by quite a few people. Later, Mr. He Xin's evidence of paleontology, materials of paleohistory and geography, and records of ancient documents pointed out: "There was indeed a horrible animal on the mainland and ocean of ancient China, which was actually the biological principle of the so-called dragon in ancient legends. In other words,' dragon' did exist in ancient times, which is called' Malay crocodile',' Gulf crocodile' and' Gulf crocodile' in modern biological taxonomy.
In ancient literature, this giant crocodile has always been called "Dragon", which is closely related to lizards. From this, we can understand the following legend in Shuo Yi Ji: The true meaning of the legend that "the scorpion turns into a dumpling in 5 years, and the dumpling turns into a dragon in 1, years" should be: the ancients thought that lizards could grow into dragons in 5 years, and dragons could grow into dragons in 1, years.