What does the dragon in the Analects mean?

Confucius. Scholars believe that the dragon in the story of Ye Gong's good dragon refers to Confucius, and Ye Gong has a good reputation for courtesy, so he invited Confucius from the University of Etiquette. The Analects of Confucius is a collection of quotations from Confucius and his disciples, which was compiled by Confucius' disciples and re-transmitted disciples until the early Warring States period. The book has 2 articles and 492 chapters.