{"id":13229,"date":"2019-11-22T01:35:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T01:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-13-dragon\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T01:35:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T01:35:27","slug":"chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-13-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/chinese-myth-figures-zhong-guo-shen-hua-ren-wu-13-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Myth Figures \u4e2d\u56fd\u795e\u8bdd\u4eba\u7269 13 Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The dragon is an imaginary divine animal of ancient  China. It is believed to have a snake body and tail, lizard legs, eagle  paws, deer horns and fish scales, with a beard at the mouth corners and a  pearl under the forehead. In Chinese mythology, the dragon changes from  time to time, controls the cloud and rain, and benefits everything in  the world. Chinese people call themselves &quot;descendants of the dragon&quot;,  because they regard the dragon as a symbol of dignity. In ancient times,  the dragon was not what they look today. Its image was gradually  evolved with the long history.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the remote past, most natural phenomena seemed inexplicable to  people. Therefore, an imaginary animal with the great power of wind,  rain and thunder became the totem of a nation. The dragon was an animal  in people&#8217;s imagination with the features of ferocious animals in the  forest, fish swimming in the river, birds flying in the sky and many  others. So, the image of the dragon gradually took shape and it was  regarded as the king of animals and a divine creature capable of doing  anything.<\/p>\n<p>The early form of the dragon germinated in the Neolithic Age and the  first actual dragon image was discovered in a tomb of the primitive  society. It was created with shells in the shape of a lizard. The color  of the bold image was simple and elegant.<\/p>\n<p>The jade dragon excavated from a tomb of the Hongshan Culture of the  Neolithic Age is called &quot;the first dragon of China&quot;. Shaped like a &quot;C&quot;,  the jade dragon has a head similar to that of a pig. Some guess that the  original image of a dragon was somewhat like a pig. So the jade dragon  is also called &quot;pig dragon&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The image of the dragon keeps changing, but the spirit forges ahead  with the Chinese nation. The dragon was endowed with power in the Shang  and Zhou Dynasties, and broadmindedness in the Han and Tang Dynasties.  It was highly respected as the &quot;Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove&quot; in the  Wei and Jin Dynasties. And it was depicted as a wild horse galloping on  the grassland in the Liao and Jing Dynasties. The dragon used to be an  extremely sacred symbol of monarchical power and nobility. But now, it  has come to the ordinary people, serving as a favored mythological image  to all. The dragon has now become the symbol of China.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3952260971\"><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>The dragon is an imaginary divine animal of ancient  China. It is believed to have a snake body and tail, lizard legs, eagle  paws, deer horns and fish scales, with a beard at the mouth corners and a  pearl under the forehead. In Chinese mythology, the dragon changes from  time to time, controls the cloud and rain, and benefits everything in  the world. Chinese people call themselves &quot;descendants of the dragon&quot;,  because they regard the dragon as a symbol of dignity. In ancient times,  the dragon was not what they look today. Its image was gradually  evolved with the long history.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/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":[130,133,118],"class_list":["post-13229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-myth-figures","tag-chinese-mythology","tag-culture"],"views":177,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}