Stories about dragons, stories about dragons

1, Ye Gong is a good dragon.

Ye Gong likes dragons, and dragons are engraved on the clothes belt hooks and wine vessels, and the carved decorations in the living room are also dragons. He loved dragons so much that after being known by the true dragon in the sky, he descended from the sky to Ye Gong's house, and the dragon's head was on the windowsill to visit, and the dragon's tail stretched out into the hall. When Ye Gong saw that it was a real dragon, he turned around and ran, so frightened that he seemed to have lost his soul, frightened, and couldn't control himself.

From this point of view, Ye Gong doesn't really like dragons, he just likes those Wuqiaohu things that look like dragons instead of dragons.

2. Lock the dragon well.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a new official who took office, I heard that the famous Yu Wang Zuojiao Well was here, and he didn't have time to change off his official uniform to run to see, to the well, the master reminded him that he was afraid of falling the hat into the well, the county official put the hat cavity at the mouth of the well and stretched out his head to see, only to see a dark, suddenly there was a sound under the well, and there was a faint sound of dragon roaring and big waves. The master hurriedly snatched the official hat, pulled up the county official, and left. The well slowly calmed down.

It adopts the common method of shaping "idols" of our Chinese nation. For example, the dragon is the symbol of our nation, but this is a combination of the totems of many ancient tribes gradually created and added. As powerful tribes gradually annex other tribes, they continue to add elements related to those extinct tribes to the banner to promote common ground while reserving differences to solve the problem of ethnic integration.

Let a dragon have a lot of totemic "souls" on his body. Look, the practice of adding stars to the Star-Spangled Banner is probably learned from our ancestors, and the bear that broke into the North American cornfield picked one more corn and added a star as a mark. The essence is the same as the gradual integration of tribal totems by our ancestors, only the difference between abstraction and image.

It is said that the totem of the Yellow Emperor tribe was originally a big carp of the Yellow River, and with the continuous eclecticism of the tribes, the totem gradually absorbed the content of other tribes. Eventually, the carp evolved into a dragon. After arduous efforts, the carp finally turned into a dragon, and now it is an inspirational classic.

But who can say whether the origin of this ancient story is related to the process of integration of our race? I think maybe it's possible.

If the current reindeer are called the "four dissimilarities" because they synthesize the images of some other animals, then the dragon is even more "excessive" than it. It is said that dragons have a head like a camel, a snout like a crocodile, eyes like a cow, a neck like a crane, scales like a carp, horns like a deer, feet like an eagle, a body like a snake, a tail like a lion, and so on. They represent the demise of some tribes, but they also reveal the continuous new integration of ethnic groups.

It seems that the characteristics of multi-ethnic groups seeking common ground while reserving differences have a long history. And "scales like carp", this reminds me of the legend that the dragon is the most afraid of revealing the scales, is this a deliberate allusion to the scales that evolved from the Yellow Emperor tribe, moving this part, it is fundamentally moving? The face of the dragon, after thousands of years of transformation, was finalized in the Northern Song Dynasty.

Since then, the dragon has the above-mentioned standard image, and also has the following internal characteristics: "It can be big and small, and it can rise and hide; The big one is the clouds and the fog, and the small one is hidden and hidden; Ascending soars between the universe, and concealment lurks in the waves. ”