In ancient times, people in different dynasties had six interpretations of the image of the dragon:
1, "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" contains: "Dragons and scale worms are long, quiet and bright, fine and huge, short and long, reaching the sky at the vernal equinox, and diving deep at the autumnal equinox."
Erya, the ancestor of the dictionary, mentioned the image of the phoenix, but never mentioned the dragon. In the addendum to Er Ya Yi written by Luo Yuan in Song Dynasty, there is a "dragon interpretation": "horns are like deer, heads are like camels, eyes are like rabbits, necks are like snakes, bellies are like flies, scales are like fish, claws are like eagles, palms are like tigers, ears are like cows". Guo, who is also an appraiser of calligraphy and painting in the Song Dynasty, also expressed similar views in his paintings.
3. In the Ming Dynasty, the image of the dragon became more figurative and plump. "Wings of Compendium of Materia Medica" said: "The dragon is the first of the scale worms. A king has nine shapes: his head is like a camel, his horns are like deer, his eyes are like rabbits, his ears are like cows, his neck is like a snake, his belly is like a stork, his scales are like carp, his claws are like eagles, and his hands are like tigers. It has 8 1 scales on its back, and the number is nine and nine yang. It sounds like a coin. There is a beard near the mouth, pearls under the chin and scales under the throat. There is Boshan on the head, also known as ruler wood, and the dragon can't ascend to heaven without ruler wood. Breathing into the clouds can turn into fire and water. "
4. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Luo Guanzhong outlined the characteristics of the dragon through the mouth of Cao Cao: "The dragon can be big or small, and it can be raised or hidden; It's cloudy and foggy when it's big, and it's hidden when it's small; Rise and fly in the universe, hide and lurk in the waves. The party is deep in this spring, and the dragon changes at any time. "
5. In the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Mei wrote in "Woods Language" that "the thunderstorm is hazy, and the dragon wails like a cow."
6. Dong Yu, a painter in the Song Dynasty, thought that dragons "have horns like deer, heads like cattle, eyes like shrimp, mouths like donkeys, bellies like snakes, scales like fish, feet like phoenix, beards like people, and ears like elephants." This statement gained more recognition in 2 1 century.
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Species of dragons
1, Qinglong: It is one of the "Four Saints", "Four Elephants" (Qinglong, White Tiger, Suzaku and Xuanwu) and "Four Spirits of Heaven", also known as the Black Dragon, which represents the East and is blue, so it is called "Oriental Qinglong".
2. Ying Long: Also known as Dragonfly and Huanglong. A dragon with wings on its back, according to Shuo Wen Jie Zi, "A thousand years of dragons, a hundred years of dragon five, and a thousand years of Ying Long." It is said that the star of Xuanyuan Emperor was Ying Long, and his main achievement was to slay Chiyou and Kuafu.
3. Hu (huǐ): "Different Biography" contains: "In 500 years, Hu turned into a dumpling, and in a thousand years, the dumpling turned into a dragon." This is the childhood of the dragon.
4.qiú: Qiú is a little dragon with horns in ancient legends, and it is a young dragon without horns. Shuo Wen Jie Zi: The dragon has no horns. Every book is a dragon with horns. According to today's rhyme club. However, rhyming will still miss a lot of words. Shan Li's annotation "Ganquan Fu" is quoted from Shuowen, and the dragon has no horns. ?
5. Chi (chρ): The snake-like monster of the dragon genus is a dragon-like creature with no horns. If you are a dragon, the north and south of the country is a cockroach. ?
6. Jiao (jiāo): Generally speaking, it refers to the scaly dragon that can flood. ?
7. Ceratosaurus: refers to a horned dragon. According to "Yi Shu Ji", "A Millennium Dragon, a century dragon".
8. Fire Dragon: "The Draft of Qing History" contains: "A dragonfly entered the house of Fushan, and the building burned up in a short while." "On May 27th, 2006, people saw the Red Dragon of History in the two rivers near Zhangti. On the seventh day of June, Shi Mei Village saw Gaoping Fire Dragon. "In June of May and June, Longwangyu saw Juzhou Red Dragon, which was first big and then small, several feet long and burned by vegetation."
9. Panlong: refers to a dragon that squats 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.
10, Yunlong: A dragon wrapped in a cloud.
1 1, Wang Long: A dragon with a side head.
12, walking the dragon: Legend has it that carp becomes a dumpling, a dumpling becomes a dragon, and a dragon will become a dragon to a certain extent.
13, Yu Hualong: Yu Hualong is a dragon with a dragon head and a fish body, and it is also a form of "dragon-fish mutual change", which has existed for a long time in ancient times. In Shuo Yuan, there is a record that "the cold abyss under the white dragon turned into a fish in the past". The popular carp tells the story of the mutual change between arowana and fish.
14. Dragon: The dragon lives on the coast or at the mouth of a river. It looks like jiaozi, or it may be one of them. Storks have an incredible ability to see all kinds of visions from the air exhaled by their mouths. Most of these phantoms are pavilions, luxury goods that no one has ever seen. From the window, you can see well-dressed people walking around. This is often called a mirage.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Longlong