For example, there is such a record in the Book of the Old Tang Dynasty-Ding Haishuo in June of Yuanhe seven years, in Meitianpo, Zhoushutong City, many people saw two dragons, one yellow and one white, rising from the slope by wind and thunder, flying at a height of 200 feet (60 meters) and a flight distance of six miles (3,000 meters), and finally falling into the floating pond.
There is even such a record in Supplementary Records of Tang Dynasty. In the last years of Tang Xiantong, a dragon fell from the sky in Tongcheng County (probably Anqing City, Anhui Province) and died on the spot. Many people saw this scene, and some people recorded it in detail.
This is a dragon with a cut in its throat. It is ten feet (30 meters) long, half-tailed, slender and flat, with scales on its body, feet below, red webbed soles, and horns on its head, more than two feet (6 meters) long and more than two feet long. Later, the officers and men arrived and wanted to give it to the country, but they couldn't lift it. They can only cut the dragon into dozens of pieces to transport it. But in Beijing, only the keel is left.
In "Tai Ping Guang Ji", there is also such a record. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, a man named Zhang Xiaosong appeared. He was appointed as the guardian of the North Court by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty. Zhang Xiaosong passed by Shazhou (now Dunhuang West) on his way to his post. He heard that there was a dragon rebellion in the local Heihe River and volunteered to kill the people. In the process, he used roast mutton as bait, ambushed a bow and arrow, shot and killed a dragon 100 feet (30 meters) long, and cut off its tongue and gave it to the country. It is precisely because of this brave and fearless performance that Emperor Taizong gave him a long-winded name, and his descendants inherited the history of sandbars.
Moon Hee in the Tang Dynasty also recorded a story about dragons. The story took place in Tang Dezong's time. Caught a dragon in Zizhou, Sichuan, and dedicated it to Wei Gao, then Jiannan's ambassador to Sichuan. This is a relatively small dragon, only more than a foot long, about three or four meters with today's measurement unit, so Wei Gao was able to put it in a wooden box and put it on the main hall of Daci Temple for replenishment.
This incident was legendary at that time, which aroused people's onlookers, so many people rushed to Daci Temple to see the dragon and prayed for its protection. But very helpless, because of the enthusiasm of the people, incense continued, and finally the dragon was smoked alive.
From the above records, we can easily see that in the Tang Dynasty, there were actually many dragons, and even these events were recorded in great detail, which made people begin to believe in the existence of dragons. Of course, this is also possible in a sense. After all, in the hundreds of years of the Tang Dynasty, there were several records about dragons, and our modern history was only a few decades. It is not impossible for people not to find them.