Ancient records about dragons, dragons really existed in ancient times

In the three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the things that the dragon saw were frequent, not only in the official history, but also recorded in many local chronicles.

For example, on June 9, Zhengde 12, nine black dragons sucked water from the river, and the boat was sucked into the air by a waterspout, but the woman in the boat was put back on the ground. During the Qianlong period, the dragon's tail was thrown down, and the water rose from the flat ground in mid-air. In the seventh year of Guangxu, a dragon appeared in the sky above Junshan, the water was blowing, the wind was howling, and a peasant was sucked into the air for dozens of zhang before falling to the ground.

However, these dragons usually occur during storms, and Lang Ying, a scholar who pretends to be a brother in the Ming Dynasty, raised a question: when the world sees a dragon, they either fight or fetch water, but there must be wind and rain, lightning and thunder, such bad weather, how can people identify whether they have seen the dragon in the real manuscript?

Therefore, some experts believe that what people encountered at that time may not have been real dragons, but natural disasters such as tornadoes and tsunamis.

While people were arguing about it, the real keel was revealed.

According to Tan Qian's "Zaolin Miscellaneous", in the 9th year of Chongzhen, a landslide occurred in Qudi Village, Shanxi, and a keel appeared. It is said that the dragon's head is the size of five buckets, the dragon's teeth are 3 centimeters wide, and the dragon's claws are meters long. Unfortunately, there were no archaeologists at the time, and people quickly dismembered it and hid the keel in their homes.

It turned out that some doctors confirmed that this was the keel, and the keel was recognized as a precious key medicine at that time. At that time, coinciding with the Xiaoice River period of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and plagues continued, and people needed keels for medicine.

So, does the keel really exist? According to some experts, the so-called dragon bones may be oracle bones used by Shang Dynasty sorcerers for divination, and after each divination, these oracle bones are usually buried in the soil, and thousands of years later, the medicine collectors dig them out and grind them into medicine. Therefore, the healers called the oracle bone the keel.

Whether the dragon exists or not, how many people have seen it with their own eyes, and what it really looks like are always mysteries. Perhaps, as experts say, the dragon seen during the Spring and Autumn period is the Chinese alligator, and the dragon seen by later generations may be a natural disaster such as a tornado.

Paleontologists have long believed that the horned dragon is a fictional image of ancient ancestors, which only exists in myths and legends. However, the fossil of the "New Chinese Dragon" unearthed in 1996 in Xinpu Township, Guanling County, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, has a symmetrical pair of "dragon horns" on the dragon's head, which is very similar to the mythical dragon, which has attracted the attention of paleontologists.

The fossil is collected in the Xingwei Paleontology and Fossil Museum of Anshun City, Guizhou Province, it is very well preserved, the total length is 7.6 meters, the dragon horn grows from the widest part of the head on the left and right sides, the double horns are symmetrical, about 27 centimeters long, slightly arc-shaped, this pair of "dragon horns" is upturned on the dragon's head, and the big debate resembles the image of the legendary dragon. The "dragon horn" of the "New Chinese Dragon" fossil in Guanling, Guizhou Province was discovered for the first time in China, providing physical evidence for the long-horned dragon in ancient legends, and providing a new idea for the study of the origin of the image of the Zen imitation dragon, which has great scientific and historical value.

It can be seen that perhaps the "dragon" has a real or roughly real ancient archetype in its form, but its function is mythologized.