In primitive beliefs, people think that the people of this clan originated from a certain species, and in most cases, it is considered to be related to
Some animals are related, so totems are mostly animal images.
When a powerful tribe overcomes and merges with another tribe,
While retaining their own totems, they will merge the distinctive parts of tribal totems into themselves.
Totem, so after the fusion of various totems, a dragon totem with various animal characteristics was formed.
Therefore, the image of the dragon includes many kinds of animals: horns like deer, heads like camels, eyes like rabbits, necks like snakes, bellies like slugs, scales like fish, claws like eagles, palms like tigers and ears like cows.
Another reliable statement is that,
According to ancient documents, in ancient times, there were some famous tribes on the land of China, the most famous of which were.
The names are Yan Di tribe and Huangdi tribe in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and Shao Hao tribe and Jianghuai tribe in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.
Tai Hao tribes in the valley.
The leader of the Yan Di tribe is a "bull's head", so some scholars believe that the Yan Di tribe takes cows as its totem.
However, according to the surname "Jiang", it can be considered that the surname is matriarchal and Jiang is Qiang, so the matriarchal totem is sheep.