Dragon s legend or story, what are the legends and stories of dragons?

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. ”

1. The origin of the dragon

The dragon is the oldest totem of the Han nation. In ancient times, people revered nature and worshiped divine power, so they created such an idol that could call wind and rain and have boundless power, worship it, and pray for peace.

The image of the dragon has undergone continuous development and change, and in the long course of history, through wars and alliances, the nation that believes in the dragon totem has gradually become the leader, and the dragon totem has gradually become the banner of the entire Chinese nation. The image of the totem that other peoples originally believed in was gradually absorbed and enriched into the image of the dragon, so that the characteristics of the dragon became more and more, and eventually the dragon became the representative of the emperor.

2. The legend of the dragon

1, Ye Gong is a good dragon.

It is said that Ye Gongzi Gao liked dragons very much in the past, and dragons were carved on furniture and clothes. 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. The dragon's head was placed on the windowsill to visit, and the dragon's tail reached into the hall.

When Ye Gong saw that it was a real dragon, he was so frightened that he turned around and ran, as if he had lost his soul, his face changed suddenly, he couldn't control himself, and he fainted on the ground.

2. God punishes the evil dragon.

In May of the 55th year of Qianlong, the dragon rose in Zhoushan in Dinghai, drifted into the fields, and drowned the population; On the third day of the month, the dragon cut three sections, the tail was missing, and its scales were as huge as a sunflower fan.

3. The skill of slaying dragons.

Once upon a time, there was a man who wanted to learn a surprising skill. When he heard that he could slaughter dragons, he thought, "This is a rare skill in the world." So he went to worship Zhiliyi as a teacher.

He studied and studied, and studied for three whole years, tossing all the family property, before he learned the skill of slaughtering dragons. But what's the use of learning skills, there are no dragons in the world, where can his wonderful skills be displayed.

4. Put the finishing touch.

Zhang Seng Miao painted four dragons on the wall of Jinling Anle Temple, but did not draw eyes, he often said, click on the eyes of the dragon and fly away. People thought it was ridiculous, so they clicked on one of the dragons. After a while, thunder and lightning broke the wall, and the dragon flew into the sky on the clouds, and the dragons that were not spotted were there.

5. The brute dragon is corrected.

It is said that Dayu has three magic weapons to control the water: one is the river map and jade slip given to him by Fuxi; The second is Ying Long in the sky, paddling the ground with his tail to guide him in the direction, Dayu along the line of Ying Long's tail, leading the migrant workers to dig the river and channel the flood; The third is the big tortoise, which throws the polycytes and polygons into low-lying places.

1. In ancient times, the representative of the Xia people was the dragon that had been passed down for thousands of years and became more and more divine. It is said that when Kun was ordered by the Emperor of Heaven to control the waters, he saw that the people on the ground at that time were forced by the flood, fleeing in all directions, unable to hunt and farm, and almost unable to survive. But the only way Kun can think of a flood of this magnitude is to contain it.

Seeing these floods continue to break through his dikes and dams, Kun could no longer bear the powerlessness of watching mortals suffer but could not do anything about it, so he decided to steal the treasure of the Heavenly Court, the "Resting Soil", a soil that would grow and prevent the containment of Kun from failing. With the help of the "Resting Soil", the mortals escaped the catastrophe of the flood and began to leave the barren hills and caves and start life again on the ground. Kun was very relieved to see that these mortals were able to start living and working in peace and contentment because of his help.

Just as he was about to go back to the Heavenly Court, Yao, the master of the Heavenly Realm, was very angry that the "Xiyang" had been stolen. So the "rest of the soil" was retracted, and the flood re-ravaged the ground, and the scene of living and working in peace and contentment became an ocean again. Helpless, not only was he unable to save these mortals, but he was also killed by Yao with thunder and lightning ("Xi Yao killed Kun in Yushan......"The Seventeenth Year of Zhao Gong").

2. After being killed by lightning and lightning, the Kun, who failed to control the water, was full of resentment, not only did he not look blind, but his body did not decay after three years. Yao was afraid that Kun's body would have any changes, so he sent warriors to dissect Kun's body with a sharp Wu knife, but he didn't expect Kun's resentment to accumulate in his abdomen and turn into a yellow dragon, which was also Kun's son Yu ("Kun died, and at the age of three he was rotted, and he was cut into a Wu knife and turned into a yellow dragon. —The Classic of Mountains and Seas, The Classic of the Sea, Guo Fu's note, quoted in "Returning to Tibet, Enlightening and Devouring"; "Kun died at the age of three without rotting, and the deputy was Wu Dao, which was used to use Yu.

Lu Shi Hou Ji", quoted in "Returning to Tibet, Enlightenment and Destruction").

3. The "Dragon Cutting Platform" and "Staggered Gorge" in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River are said to be the places where Yu cut off a dragon that opened the waterway indiscriminately and almost missed a major event. The Xia Dynasty, which was then established, was both the first dynasty in Chinese history and a clan with the dragon as its totem.