Dragons give birth to nine sons What are these nine dragons like?

Generally speaking, there are two versions of the nine sons of the dragon, one is the prisoner of the cow, the jaw, the mocking wind, the pulao, the fox, the sage, the sting Many times, we often use the first expression, that is, there is no gluttonous nine sons. Some theories also include the head of the cocktail and the roar towards the sky (犼) as one of the dragons.

Why do we use the first one more often, because gluttony is one of the four fierce beasts Zhaoxiao, and the other three are Chaos, Qiqi and Han Jujube Guess Qi. Generally, the stool says that the son of the dragon is the representative of auspiciousness, and the gluttony is a fierce beast, so he will not be put in the nine sons of the dragon.

It doesn't specifically refer to that dragon, it's more general.

There is confusion about the pronunciation and ordering of the nine sons of the dragon.

Liang Haiyan, an expert on Longsheng Jiuzi of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that the books published in the book were inconsistent, and they were all plagiarized back and forth. Regarding pronunciation, there will always be no more quiet sources to the "foley of ancient Chinese", first, it is not necessary, and second, the pronunciation of ancient Chinese, Middle Chinese and modern Chinese is very different.

The dragon gave birth to nine sons means that the dragon gave birth to nine sons, and the nine sons did not become dragons, each of which was different. The so-called "dragon gives birth to nine sons" does not mean that the dragon happens to give birth to nine sons. In traditional Chinese culture, nine is used to represent a lot, with supreme status, nine is an imaginary number, but also a valuable number, so it is used to describe the dragon.

The saying that the dragon has nine sons has a long history, but there is no theory about which nine animals there are, and it was not until the Ming Dynasty that various theories appeared. Some scholars' notes in the Ming Dynasty, such as Lu Rong's "Shuyuan Miscellaneous Records", Li Dongyang's "Huailu Tang Collection", Yang Shen's "Sheng'an Collection", Li Xu's "The Old Man's Writing of the Ring Nunnery", Xu Yingqiu's "Yuzhitang Tanyun", etc., have recorded the situation of the dragons, but they are not uniform.

Nai, 龘, 爨, 隳, 鼗, 彠, 灪, 曩, 齉, 齆, 韛.

1. Nai: nài

Interpretation] original meaning Dading. Specifically refers to the big tripod and the head tripod.

Strokes] 14 strokes.

Compound] Liding: display the tripod ware with the feast. The ancient aristocracy allocated the number of tripods according to the number of knights.

2. 龘: dá

Collapse town recitation of the interpretation of the group of sleepy righteousness] to describe the appearance of the dragons taking off.

Strokes] 48 strokes.

3. 爨: cuàn

Interpretation] originally meant to cook on fire. It also refers to a person who burns a fire to cook. Resistant to this.

Strokes] 30 strokes.

Compound] separation: an idiom that refers to brothers living separately.

4. 隳: huī

Interpretation] means the destruction of a city wall or a hill.

Pen Xun Smile Painting] 15 strokes.

Compounds] Liver and gall: a metaphor for treating people with loyalty and sincerity.

5. 鼗: táo

Interpretation] The original meaning is the drum of the ethnic minorities in the north.

Strokes] 18 strokes.

Compounds] Changchang Xun Drum: a long-handled rocking drum, commonly known as "rattle".