Records of Five Elements in the Book of the Later Han Dynasty recorded that in June of the first year of Longliang Ming Temple, Lingdi Guang and Dingchou, black gas fell into the East Hall of Wen Ming Temple in Gong Bei, which was as black as a car cover and colorful as a dragon. Are dragons really gaseous creatures or small tornadoes?
"Huayang National Records" Volume III, Shu Zhi: "In the twenty-four years, Huanglong saw Wuyang Chishui for nine days." In the twenty-fourth year of Jian 'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huanglong appeared in Chishui, Wuyang, and left after nine days. This is definitely not a tornado. Bian Xiao has never seen a tornado lasting nine days.
According to the Book of Jin, there is a black dragon and a white dragon, both of which were found in Longshan. I personally led a team to observe, and walked more than 200 steps to sacrifice Taizai. The two dragons frolicked for the first time, lost their horns and left. When you are happy, go back to the palace, forgive its territory, call it the New Palace Dragon, and set up the Longxiang Buddhist Temple on the mountain. The story tells that there is a black dragon and a white dragon in Longshan. Murong Mu, the former emperor of Yan, heard the news and led his ministers to Longshan, standing at a close distance of about 200 steps from the dragon. Two dragons are intertwined in the air in the sky. They fly in the sky for a while before flying away. Murong Mu was very happy after reading it. Immediately after returning to the palace, he issued an amnesty decree to the state, named the newly-built palace Helong Palace, and built Longxiang Buddhist Temple on Longshan. The shape of the two dragons is not explained in the article, which also reads like a tornado.
"Xuanshizhi Dragon Palace" in the Tang Dynasty records: "Fenshui runs through Taiyuan and flows southward. There are two bridges in the water, and there is a dragon view under the south bridge, so there is a dragon temple under the bridge. Therefore, when the Prime Minister Linghu Chu lived in Beidu, Yi Long came out of the temple and all the men and women in Beijing looked around. When they approached the food, they left cheerfully, and then a thunderstorm began. ...... Tang Chu and Shi. " This dragon-to-ground incident was witnessed by a large number of people, and there was a thunderstorm, which also meant a tornado.
"Supplement to the Year of the Tang Dynasty" records that one day in the last years of Tang Xiantong, a Qinglong fell in Tongcheng County and died on the spot because of a throat injury. This dragon is more than ten feet long, half body and half tail. The tail is flat. Its scales are similar to those of fish, with double horns on its head, a mouth that must be two feet long, feet under its abdomen, and a red membrane on its feet.
"Yuan Shi Wu Xing" says: In July of the twenty-seventh year of Yuan Dynasty, the dragon was seen in Longshan, Linxiong County, Yidu, and a huge stone weighed a thousand pounds. This case is a relatively standard tornado event. In China, tornado, as an uncommon astronomical phenomenon, has not been recognized by the public. In ancient books, tornadoes are generally called: dragons or dragons, Ying Long, hanging dragons, etc.
According to the Records of Lin 'an Prefecture, in the fourth year of Chongzhen (A.D. 163 1), a dragon was found in Yilong Lake in the southeast of Shiping County, Yunnan Province. "Claws and scales are exposed, and their number is dozens of feet long." Dragons appeared in Longshan and Yilong Lake, probably more than once. Otherwise, it would not be called "Longshan" and "Yilong Lake"!
Lang Ying's "Seven Manuscripts" records that in the thirty-second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1 162), a dragon was found near Taibai Lake, with a huge scale, a white belly and a green back, fins on its back and high horns on its head, and it could smell foul for miles away. The local people covered its body with mats, and the government sent people to offer sacrifices in person. The dragon disappeared after a thunderstorm overnight. It left a deep ditch where it lay.
According to the Records of Yongping County, in the summer of the 19th year of Daoguang (AD 1839), a dragon landed in Laoting County in the lower reaches of Luanhe River, and flies were everywhere. The locals built a shed for it to keep out the sun and poured water on it. Three days later, in a thunderstorm, the dragon left its position.