The things you don't know about the zodiac dragon

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As a long-standing folk cultural symbol, the zodiac has left a large number of poetry, spring couplets, paintings, calligraphy and folk crafts depicting the image and symbolic meaning of the zodiac throughout the ages. In addition to China, many countries in the world issue zodiac stamps during the Spring Festival to express their blessings for the Chinese New Year. Regarding the zodiac, although you have a certain understanding, there must be many things you don't know. Let us take a look at the things you don't know about the zodiac dragon.

Zodiac Dragon

There are many theories about the origin of the dragon. According to Wen Yiduo, the clans with the snake as the totem have successively merged many other totem clans, forming "the main body of the snake, the head of a horse, the tail of a hyena, the horns of a deer, and the claws of a dog. , A dragon totem made of a mixture of fish scales and whiskers".

The dragon in ancient mythology is not sacred and inviolable. Nuwa refining stones to repair the sky, "kill the black dragon to help Jizhou". The dragon became a symbol of imperial power after the Han Dynasty. The emperor wears a dragon robe, sits on a dragon chair, rides a dragon boat, and sits on a dragon's robe. The emperor died called Long Yu Bintian. The dragon robe of the Qing Dynasty was composed of nine golden dragons combined with the "Nine-Five Sovereigns", and the dragon patterns of the Forbidden City in Beijing are numerous. People will suffer misfortune if they use dragon patterns.

The dragon is the god of clouds and rain. "Huainanzi. Shuo Lin Xun" said, "Drought will repair the earth dragon", and the "Lun Heng·Lunlong Pian" says, "The husband and the earth tiger cannot cause wind, and the earth dragon can cause rain". Since the Song Dynasty, almost every village has a Dragon King Temple. Whenever floods and droughts occur, people have to offer sacrifices to the Dragon King, let it control the rain, and pray for good weather.

It is also said that the dragon cannot decide to rain on its own. In "Journey to the West", the dragon king of Jinghe was beheaded for violating the rain will of the Jade Emperor.

The dragon symbolizes the outstanding and extraordinary. Confucius praised Lao Tzu for "the dragon rides on the wind and the clouds for nine days"; Zhuge Liang is called "Mr. Wolong", Cai Yong is often drunk lying on the street and known as "drunken dragon", and his parents hope that his son will become a dragon...

The pattern of dragon and phoenix was widely circulated after the Tang Dynasty. It not only symbolized the authority of the emperor and empress, but also symbolized the happy combination of husband and wife, and also symbolized the harmony between spiritual and material yin and yang. The dragon and phoenix pattern is the most representative image symbol of the Chinese nation.

The things you don't know about the zodiac dragon

The dragon is smart, talented, and temperamental. Even if he doesn't wear makeup, he will look good. However, in order to make himself more beautiful and perfect, he actually puts some concealer on his face or often makes some facial masks at night, but we can't see or see the dragon's makeup.

Therefore, their biggest secret is to dress themselves up with makeup, which is unknown to many people, and such makeup is not easy to be seen. After all, in our eyes, people who belong to the dragon are naturally beautiful, and they are very good. I did not think that they would dress themselves up.