{"id":6555,"date":"2019-11-20T17:06:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/the-candle-dragon-zhu-long-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T17:06:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:06:07","slug":"the-candle-dragon-zhu-long-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/the-candle-dragon-zhu-long-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Candle Dragon \u70db\u9f99"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Why there exists the change of the four seasons? Why  does day alternate with night? This it all because there lives a  powerful Candle Dragon.<\/p>\n<p>It was said that, to the north of the Chishui River beyond the  distant Northwest Sea, there was a strange mountain named Zhangwei  Mountain, in which lived a magical god of mountain who wore a human  face, yet with a curving snake-like body of more than 1000 li.The whole  body of the mountain god was thoroughly red like a fiery dragon. His  eyes were also quite different from ordinary people, like two olives  vertically hung on the face, which turned into two straight slits when  he closed them.<\/p>\n<p>The mountain god was so mighty that when he closed his eyes, night  befell the earth and when he opened them, the world turned into daytime.  He winked and winked, and days and nights occurred alternately.<\/p>\n<p>The mountain god never slept and he always curled up there without  eating, drinking or breathing. Once he breathed, there would appear the  fierce wind and torrential rain; once he blew, there would be winter in a  second with the sky filled with black clouds and heavy snow storms;  once he sniffed, there would be midsummer in no time with scorching sun  that could even melt the stones.<\/p>\n<p>The red and long body of the mountain god could shine divinely, and  even the dark and deep underground was brightened. He often held in  mouth a candle lightening the dark gate of heaven in the north, thus he  was called &quot;Candle Dragon&quot; or &quot;Candle Yin&quot;,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-4288700380\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why there exists the change of the four seasons? Why  does day alternate with night? This it all because there lives a  powerful Candle Dragon.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2837],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology"],"views":369,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}