Do dragons really exist in reality?

Dragon is one of the oldest mysteries in China culture. In the ancient ruins of the Yin Dynasty, the hieroglyphic "Dragon" has existed for a long time. It seems to be an animal with horns, a big mouth, tattoos and twists and turns.

Xu Shen, a scholar of Han Dynasty, was born in 1857. It said: "The dragon, the scale worm's length, can be quiet and bright, short and long. The vernal equinox ascends to the sky and the autumnal equinox dives deeply. " In myths and legends, Fuxi and Nu Wa, the earliest ancestors of the Chinese nation, were dragons and snakes with human heads and snake bodies. Fuxi and the picture of female disaster in the cultural relics of the Han Dynasty are examples of the image of "descendants of dragons".

The image of the dragon seen today is based on a snake, which accepts the four feet of a beast, the mane of a horse, the tail of a beard, the horn of a deer, the scratches of a dog, the scales and whiskers of a fish. ......

Scholars have accumulated the results of people's textual research for thousands of years and reached a relatively consistent conclusion: dragons are only imaginary animals symbolizing a better life in ancient times; Dragon originated from totem worship in primitive clan society.

According to experts' research, the earliest totem of "dragon" is the ancient Wuyue people in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. One of the evidences is that Wu Yue had the popular custom of serial tattoos in ancient times to show his status as a "son of the dragon" and pray for protection; Secondly, there are ancient books & gt It is said that the dragon boat race originated from Gou Jian, the King of Yue, and the Dragon Boat Festival also originated from wuyue.

Later, as the same concept and ideology as * * *, the dragon represented the "totem" and symbol of the whole Chinese nation.

The divinity of dragons can be summarized by love the water, flying, flying, fickle, supernatural, auspicious, ominous and indicative.

In the divinity of dragons, "love the water" ranks first. This is because dragons are originally "water" and "water phase", or that dragons originated from "water" and "water phase". Many vague collection objects of dragons can be said to be "water objects" or "water phases". Fish, crocodiles, hippos, seahorses and buffaloes live in water; Snakes and lizards like to be in wet places; Pigs, cows, horses and deer can't live without water. However, clouds, thunder and lightning, rainbows, tides, tornadoes, mudslides and other natural phenomena are closely related to rain and water. It seems that jujube can be called "water phase". How can a dragon that originated from water and water not "like water"?

The divinity of "love the water" makes the dragon particularly competent for running clouds, distributing rain and managing water.

"Good flying" occupies a particularly important position in the basic divinity of dragons. Dragons "fly well" for several reasons: First, as the fuzzy collection objects of dragons, clouds, thunder and lightning, rainbows, etc. are originally "astronomical phenomena" flying in the air; Second, fish, crocodiles, snakes, etc. Swim fast in the water, while horses, cows, deer, etc. Running at a speed similar to "flying" on land; Thirdly, due to the fuzziness of thinking, the ancients often put fish, crocodiles, snakes and so on. Diving, horses, cows, deer, etc. Running on land, there are clouds, thunder and lightning, rainbows and so on. Flying in the air is a different manifestation of a sacred object, so that if you can swim in the water and run on the ground, you can fly in the sky. Fourthly, since human beings have a spiritual life, they have been dreaming of transcending their own limitations, getting rid of the suffering of this world and soaring to the sky full of stars, moons and white clouds. As a sacred object that embodies the ideals of the ancients, the dragon can't fly, and it is not a dragon if it can't fly well.

The divinity of "flying well" makes the dragon a natural convenience for some immortals, sages and emperors.

The direction and field of "flying" is naturally and can only be a mysterious, vast and supreme sky. Therefore, "flying well" is bound to "reach the sky." As early as the black pottery ear basin unearthed from Hemudu site in Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, there were patterns depicting "fish algae pattern" and "bird pattern" together. The "bird and fish pattern" unearthed from the site of Beishouling in Shaanxi Province also connects the birds flying in the sky with the fuzzy collections of fish, dates and dragons swimming in the water, indicating that as early as the early Neolithic Age, at the beginning of the fuzzy collection of dragons, many architectural sculptures and paintings in later generations made dragons appear in boundless sky and clouds, such as the Yunlong column in the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Yunlong stone in the Temple of Heaven and the Pearl Dragon in the Confucius Temple.

Dragons "like water", and water gathers on the ground; The dragon "flies well" and soars in. In this way, the dragon has the ability to communicate with heaven and earth and become a bridge and messenger between heaven and earth. Those emperors compared themselves with dragons because they saw the divinity of dragons and their ability to act as bridges and messengers between heaven and earth.

Because the dragon is a fuzzy collection of many objects, and there are such differences between the collected objects, the dragon has a "fickle" divinity. In the eyes of the ancients, Long Zaitian can be clouds, electricity or rainbows, pigs, horses or cows on the ground, fish, crocodiles or snakes in the water. That is to say, clouds, electricity and rainbows in the sky, pigs, horses and cows on the ground, fish, crocodiles and snakes in the water and so on. Can be variants and incarnations of dragons.

The dragon has an impetuous divinity, and if it changes, it will inevitably produce some lightness, knowledge, implication, effectiveness, absurdity, strangeness and weirdness. Therefore, the dragon has a supernatural divinity and has become one of the "four spirits" in the minds of the ancients (the other three spirits are forest, wind and ghost).

One of the purposes for people to create and worship God is to believe that God can bring benefits to themselves. Dragon is a mythical creature created by ancient people's fuzzy collection of many animals and astronomical phenomena. If this mythical creature can't bring happiness and auspiciousness to the world, what did the ancients create it for? The gods of the above dragons all provide the foundation for the divinity of the dragon's symbol auspicious Kerry: the dragon loves water, and water is the lifeblood of production and life; Dragonfly well, flying is the yearning to transcend suffering and get rid of difficulties; The dragon reaches the sky, and the sky is where the emperor of heaven and the gods live; Dragons are fickle, and change is an adaptation to the living environment; Dragons are supernatural, which makes them mysterious and extraordinary. If all these advantages are concentrated on one person, how can the dragon be unlucky?

Dragons can be "auspicious" or "unlucky". This is also in line with dialectics, which is based on the verification of reality and the historical and moral evaluation. For example, the "dragon demon" that led to the demise of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the chaos in the ancient three temples, "the sun demon comes out at night, the dragon is born in the temple, and the dog cries in the city", and so on.

In the temperament of the dragon, there is also a fierce and arrogant side. We usually call it "demonstration". The dragon's "demonstration" stems from the habit and harm of the dragon's fuzzy collection objects. For example, crocodiles in the bay hurt people cruelly, poisonous snakes bite people maliciously, thunderstorms flooded rivers, tornadoes swept away people and animals and trees, mudslides destroyed houses and fields, and so on. The ancients had no scientific explanation for these phenomena, so they had to say "dragon anger", "dragon resentment", "dragon revenge" and "dragon evil"