Of the 12 zodiac signs, why is there only a dragon? Were there really dragons in ancient times?

In ancient times, there should really be a dragon, if there is no dragon, it is impossible to appear in the zodiac, the dragon is a mascot in our country, so it is not visible.

The dragon described in ancient China has always existed, but it is not an animal at all, and people think that it is a symbol of gods, so it is not among the twelve zodiac signs; In ancient times, dragons did not exist, and this is a mythical animal created by people based on legends.

In the 12 zodiac signs, all 11 genera can be found, but the dragon is difficult to find now. The dragon in the zodiac is a row that sits behind the rabbit and before the snake. These will be very interesting in themselves, because the dragon is the time performance in the third month of the lunar calendar, then we think about it carefully, Luoding March is the time when the situation of various things in nature is more changeable.

You see, the withered leaves of the tree are gradually emerging green leaves, and the temperature is gradually mild, and the swallows are flying back from the south to make their nests. It can be seen that this dragon, which everyone has never seen, can be said to be well-known in our lives.

The dragon gives us the feeling of being elegant, sublime and invincible. It's because no one has really seen it, so we have to imagine. That only adds to the mystery.

There are also sporadic accounts of dragons in historical books, but there is no ** and origin of dragons, only endless legends and fascinating myths and legends. From ancient times to the present, the dragons in this genus are all prevalent in an illusory way, and it is often said that the dragon sees the head but does not see the tail, and we have never seen the head and tail. The dragon is a mythical creature in ancient myths and legends in China and other Asia-Pacific regions, and it is the head of the scale insect.

It is one of the most iconic ethnic cultures of the Chinese nation in the Asia-Pacific region, such as the Han people, and the legend of the dragon and other ancient cultures are relatively rich. The most basic feature of the dragon's brand image is "nine likes", and there are still objections to which nine small animals are actually there. Legends are often seen in their ability to show and hide, to be small and huge, and to be short and long.

The beginning of spring ascends to the sky, the beginning of autumn dives into the abyss, and the brand image of the dragon, which is already the end of the development trend, is more complicated than the original dragon.

Many authorities feel that dragons occur a lot in ancient texts, perhaps they are real, and that dragons also occur in the Chinese zodiac, and that other genera are all real in daily life. Therefore, relevant experts and scholars are also constantly trying to find some dragon imprints, fish species are the most conjectured animals, because there are some fish shapes and dragons are very similar, such as the emperor ribbon fish, the body length is 5 meters, in the case of swimming in the water like a flying dragon, but although some like, but still far away, the most important thing is that this fish does not have front paws, and can not fly.

There is a dragon in the zodiac, I think this creature really existed in ancient times, but it has not been confirmed, the reason why it does not exist is because we have never seen it, but not seeing it does not mean that it has not existed,It's just that they may have been extinct for a long time, just like dinosaurs and other creatures, but we found their fossils, but we didn't find dragon fossils, I think it may be because dragons live in water, not on land like dinosaurs, so there are fossils about them that have never been found, because water is not what we are good at.

We can do any activity on land, but we can't in the water, we can live on land all the time, but we can't stay in the water for too long, and because of this, our activities are limited, and after a long time in the water, it is even more difficult to find traces of dragonsAnd the animals in the zodiac except the dragon all exist, we have seen it in daily life, since the other eleven animals exist, if you suddenly add a virtual animal, there will be some sense of disobedience, so I think the dragon should be as real as the other eleven animals.

Although we have not seen the dragon, but there is a totem about the dragon we often see, the earliest can be traced back to the Xia Dynasty, if the dragon did not exist, then in the Xia Dynasty why the dragon as a pattern, but also gradually become the symbol of our Chinese Ming people,Moreover, the "Shengjing Times" also released a report on the "stranding of the dragon" before, which caused a lot of sensation at the time, and there was also a picture and truth at that time, which can confirm that the dragon existed.

However, the reason for its disappearance is unknown, it may really be extinct, or it may be as it is said in mythological storiesThey live in a place that we can't see, and it is its mystery that makes us yearn for and respect dragons even more.

I don't think so, maybe the ancients didn't describe the creature in detail, which led to the appearance of the dragon creature, if there really is, then why haven't people found anything related to this creature until now.

There should be no such creature, this is a spiritual totem created by the ancients according to their own imagination.

Dragons are the result of people's worship of supernatural powers, and they do not really exist, as can be seen from the origin of dragons.

The zodiac dragon is a totem.

In primitive societies, each tribe had its own totem to represent the symbol of its own tribe. Each tribe's draft wheel totem is different, due to many reasons such as culture, legends, and environment. Later, with the development of society, the tribes were constantly unified, and then formed our today's Chinese civilization, and many tribes disappeared.

When some tribes unite with other tribes, their totems will also change, and the totems of other tribes will be added. And dragons are the result of the fusion of many tribes. The image of the traditional dragon in China is "horns like a deer, a head like a camel, eyes like a rabbit, a key buried letter like a snake, a belly like a mirage, scales like a fish, claws like an eagle, palms like a tiger, ears like a cow."

It can be said that this is also a big basis. Moreover, this totem is conducive to the unity of the newly formed regime.

The image of a dragon

From the current archaeological point of view, archaeological scientists have not found any fossils of species that match the description of dragons today, so the dragon creature still exists only in mythology.

However, as the totem of Chinese civilization, the image of the dragon has appeared in China as early as about 8200-7400 years ago, and at the beginning of the 20th century, when China excavated a large number of sites, the Neolithic culture was found in Xinglongwa Village, Xinglongwa Town, Inner Mongolia, which is called "Xinglongwa culture" in archaeology.

In the Xinglongwa culture, archaeologists have found the earliest dragon-shaped pendulum sculpture, which is about one meter long and about 2 meters wide, with its head open and mouth bent and arched.

According to the speculation of the zodiac, it can be found that the zodiac has a history of nearly 3,000 years, and in the zodiac, in addition to the dragon, we can find that the remaining eleven animals have really appeared in daily life, only the dragon is a creature, and no one has actually seen it. But that doesn't mean we haven't seen it doesn't prove that dragons don't exist. It stands to reason that if the ancients had never seen dragons, then how could they add dragons to the zodiac, and it would be a bit too abrupt to compare them with the eleven real animals.

It is likely that thousands of years ago, dragons were real, but some things happened later that led to the genocide of dragons, so people have never seen dragons in reality. Just like the giant panda now, in the Qin and Han dynasties, the number of giant pandas was very large, and it was not as rare as it is now, but became a protected animal. But after 2,000 years, the giant panda is almost extinct, and it can only be seen in the Sichuan region of China.

It can be seen from here that after the continuous changes of the times, the impact on species is still relatively large.

In those ancient books, dragons are also recorded, and dragons are originally very rare and spiritual animals. It is likely that in ancient times, the dragon species was already on the verge of extinction, coupled with the changes of the times and environmental pollution, some wild animals like are on the verge of extinction, not to mention a rare species like dragons.

Maybe the dragon was already an endangered animal in ancient times, so it was not very common in ancient times, and there was no concept of protecting endangered animals in ancient times, so dragons became extinct for some reason, so dragons may have really existed.

There is an argument that the influence of power. In ancient times, rulers generally referred to themselves as True Dragons and True Emperors to prove their supremacy and dignity. .

The symbols used to represent their own totems are different for each tribe. Due to many reasons such as cultural legends and environment, with the development of society, the tribes continued to unify, forming our today's Chinese civilization. , and the dragon is the product of the fusion of many tribes, so the totem of the dragon looks like it is made up of many animals, and this totem is conducive to the unification of the new regime.

does not exist.

The dragon is a totem created by people, as a symbol of civilization of the Chinese nation, given some special meanings, so it naturally became an animal and joined the zodiac; In ancient times, there was no such thing as a dragon, which was a spiritual symbol that people fabricated out of thin air.

The dragon has some special meaning and status in the hearts of the Chinese, and many scholars believe that the dragon is real, otherwise only the dragon in the zodiac is not in reality.

Dragons appear in many classical texts, and perhaps dragons have existed in real life. There must be a reason why there are dragons in the zodiac. So many scholars try to find clues about dragons.

At first, everyone speculated that the fish were dragons, because some fish were really similar in appearance to dragons, such as the emperor ribbon fish, and when they swam, they really resembled dragons, but the fish did not have claws like dragons, and they did not fly in the air.

In ancient times, emperors thought that they were the true sons of heaven and boasted of dragons, which shows how noble dragons were in the hearts of people at that time. In mythological stories, dragons can not only call for wind and rain, but also fly, and the dragon scales on their bodies are shining.

But so far, there is no favorable evidence that dragons are real, but there are some speculations and ideas about the real existence of dragons.

According to the literature, the 12 zodiac signs can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, which has a history of thousands of years. The eleven of the zodiac signs are real, but the dragon is not, or rather, we have not seen it now. If dragons never existed, wouldn't it be a little incomprehensible to add what wasn't in reality to the zodiac?

In the Central Plains a long time ago, there were actually a large number of elephants, it is understood that there were elephant armies in the Xia and Shang periods, and the climate and temperature at that time were more suitable for elephant production, so the output was relatively large. Let's talk about pandas, pandas are very rare now, but pandas were everywhere before, and panda bones have been unearthed in the Bailuyuan area. But nowadays, the number of giant pandas is very small, and they are concentrated in Sichuan and other places, which shows how much has changed over the past thousands of years.

Dragons are recorded in the classics as rare animals, perhaps dragons were rare a long time ago, and it is impossible to see them now, so they existed, but they are not available now.