{"id":6557,"date":"2019-11-20T19:10:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=6557"},"modified":"2019-11-20T19:10:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T19:10:34","slug":"the-nine-sons-of-the-dragon-long-sheng-jiu-zi-ge-you-suo-hao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/the-nine-sons-of-the-dragon-long-sheng-jiu-zi-ge-you-suo-hao\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nine Sons of the Dragon \u9f99\u751f\u4e5d\u5b50\u5404\u6709\u6240\u597d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Legend has it that the dragon has nine sons, but none  has grown into a dragon, with each having his own appearance. They are  (arranged by the seniority among brothers): Bixi, Chiwen, Pulao, Bi&#8217;an,  Taotie, Baxia, Yazi, Suanni and Jiaotu.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called &nbsp;&quot;nine sons of the dragon&quot; doesn&#8217;t mean that the dragon  has exactly nine sons. In traditional Chinese culture, the number&nbsp;  &quot;nine&quot; suggests a large number and is put in a supreme status. Nine is  not an exact number, but a noble number. That&#8217;s why it is used to  describe the number of sons the dragon has.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-662407276\"><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>Legend has it that the dragon has nine sons, but none  has grown into a dragon, with each having his own appearance. They are  (arranged by the seniority among brothers): Bixi, Chiwen, Pulao, Bi&#8217;an,  Taotie, Baxia, Yazi, Suanni and Jiaotu.<\/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":[44,118,135],"class_list":["post-6557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-culture","tag-culture","tag-traditional-chinese"],"views":369,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}