The "Modern Chinese Dictionary" (1983 edition) defines "dragon" based on historical legends: dragon, a magical animal in ancient Chinese legends, has a long body, scales, and horns. It has legs, can walk, fly, swim, and create clouds and rain.
It is in the face of this definition that people have fallen into deep confusion. Someone has searched all the biological information at home and abroad, but cannot find an animal that can correspond to the above definition. Therefore, a conclusion that is not too rash comes naturally: the dragon is nothing more than a deified creature. Some even called it a "hypothetical masterpiece of biology."
Ma Xiaoxing, 49 years old, is an enthusiast of ancient books and paleontology. In order to study dragons, he has consulted a large amount of information and done a lot of investigations for more than ten years. He believes that dragons are rare animals that once existed and were deified by people. It is somewhat incredible that the "hypothesis" of dragon, which comes from empty imagination, has shrouded Chinese culture for thousands of years, and has become more and more powerful. When you open ancient Chinese books, poems, poems, novels, and even philosophical works and political papers, the image of the dragon is everywhere. Since people subjectively believe that the Dragon Legend is a myth, they will not take these texts seriously. However, the "Zuo Zhuan", a history book that people trust, mentioned that Emperor Shun gave the man who raised a dragon for him a surname of Dong, which was named Huanlong, which means the person who raises the dragon; historians who have always been cautious about bizarre ancient legends Sima Qian also recorded in "Historical Records" that there was a person who specialized in raising dragons in the Xia Dynasty, named Yulong. There are countless records about "fallen dragons" in historical books of the past dynasties.
Ma Xiaoxing firmly believes in the existence of dragons. He said: "From historical records from different dynasties, and from the recollection of Ren Dianyuan's personal experience on the banks of the Songhua River in 1944, we vaguely realize that there was indeed a time in the world. There is such a strange animal that can walk, fly, and swim, and our thinking cannot help but change.
When something we thought we were familiar with is revealing its truth in some way, why don't we look at it differently and re-understand the mystery of the dragon that has been explained thousands of times?