龙

THE CHINESE CHARACTER

“龙”
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE & CIVIL ENGINEERING
ID: | 28th DECEMBER, 2021
 Winged serpent is a sort of baffling animal that shows up in Chinese fantasies and
legends, and it is found in different spaces of the Chinese person culture circle. As an overall
term: Winged serpent is a gigantic legendary animal with the qualities of snakes, falcons, cows,
deer and different creatures, found in old developments on the planet. Mythical serpent clans in
various locales have various qualities and appearances, for example, the old winged serpent of
Babylon, the Naga of India, and the Nidhogg who chomps the World Tree. In antiquated Chinese
folklore, the winged serpent is one of the four promising monsters. The beginning of various
assessments about it, it was said that in old occasions the sky lightning , was supposed to be a
crocodile , was supposed to be a snake , it was said that the symbol intertwined; at present more
valid contention is that the mythical serpent is gotten from a dark mythical beast star grouping.

It is said that Fuxi and Nuwa, the predecessors of individuals in China, were all heads of
winged serpents (or heads of snakes). The precursors of the Chinese country of Yan Ruler ,
Huangdi , the unbelievable and Da are firmly related, as per legend Yandi for his mom
acceptance "mythical serpent head" was conceived, and passing into a Red Winged serpent. Liu
Bang guaranteed that he was brought into the world of his mom and winged serpent intercourse.
These legends show that the Chinese have been firmly connected with winged serpents since old
occasions, and the expression "mythical beast's relatives" isn't found in chronicled records. The
expression "Mythical beast's Relatives" just became well known in 1978 with Hou Dejian’s tune
"Winged serpent's Relatives".".

Fig 1: The dragon that resists catastrophe and ascends to heaven

The most punctual Chinese mythical beast formed example found up until this point
comes from the Xinglongwa Social Chahai site around 8,000 years prior. It was found in 1994
and situated in Aohan, Inward Mongolia, close to Fuxin, Liaoning. It is a mythical serpent
molded heap made of red-earthy colored stones. The showed mythical serpent is almost 20
meters long and two meters in width. It has a serpentine appearance in the focal square of the
town ruins. Certain individuals feel that this winged serpent formed heap has the picture of an
advanced mythical beast. It is hard to keep the heaped mythical serpent shape unblemished
without seeing the entire winged serpent during the exhuming. In 1996, two earth-plastic
mythical serpents were found at the Yangjiawa site in Huludao City, Liaoning, likewise 8,000
years prior. The second is the winged serpent design stoneware pot found in the Xinglongwa
culture 8000-7000 years prior, which is cut with an adamant snake-like mythical beast design.
Then, at that point, there are four gatherings of regions found in 1987 at the Xishuipo Yangshao
Social Site in Puyang, Henan Territory, 6500 years prior (Gathering 1: Beidou Mythical serpent
and Tiger, Gathering 2: Mythical serpent, Tiger, Deer and Bird, Gathering 3: Riding Winged
serpent, Rising to Paradise, Gathering 4: The lord of the late spring solstice), known as the
"principal winged serpent of China" around then. The previous mythical serpents found in
southern China incorporate the head-rising winged serpent and the head-twisting mythical beast
from the Panshan site in Pukou Ying over 5,000 years prior, and the jade pig mythical beast from
the Liangzhu site in Yuhang , and so forth.

Fig 2: The Hongshan cultural jade dragon discovered in 1984, its age is about 5000 years ago

Mythical beast in East Asia ordinary in the zodiac are organized in the fifth, the relating
expanded are e. In the homologous Indian zodiac, it compares to the Nagara Mythical beast
Snake Group. The mythical serpent, the phoenix, the unicorn, and the turtle are all things
considered alluded to as the "four monsters". The banknotes gave by Hong Kong Standard
Sanctioned Bank in 1979 depend on these monsters. (There are additionally many books and
verifiable works referenced "four propitious" are: Jia Yu, positioning, PI, Suan Ni.) Winged
serpent and White Tiger, Suzaku, basalt is Chinese stargazing of four pictures.

Among them, there are two generally spread: one hypothesis is that the winged serpent
was initially a snake on the ground. Later a long, long an ideal opportunity to assimilate the
profound energy of the sky and the earth and the pith of the sun and the moon, the snake turned
into a mythical beast, and the winged serpent at last changed into a mythical beast. Really at that
time can handle wind, downpour and flying, that is, in the antiquated " Shu Yi Ji ", the supposed
"Fall 500 years into a winged serpent, 1,000 years into a mythical beast, a mythical beast 500
years into a horned winged serpent, and 1,000 years into a Yinglong ".One more method of
saying that will be that in old occasions there was a door in the ocean called a winged serpent
entryway. This gantry is extremely huge that you can't see the entire picture. At some point, a
carp swims under the mythical beast entryway and is obstructed. The carp needs to get around
the mythical serpent entryway and swim to different spots. Later incalculable leaps, the carp at
last bounced over the mythical beast entryway, however as of now the carp transformed into
another picture, with a long body covered with scales, two tusk like horns on the head, and four
additional legs. , There are bird hooks, which can enter the sky up and plunge into the ocean, and
can call the breeze and call the downpour. This legend later turned into the narrative of "fishing
over the winged serpent entryway".

Candle Dragon: The face is long and the body has no feet.

Chilong : It has no horns and is yellow, like a dragon-like beast. Another one is said to be a
female dragon without horns.

Aolong: The big tortoise in the sea, another said it is a fish, the head of the fish, the fish jumped
from the dragon gate.

Mirage: It can exhale, resembles a large oyster, is called a giant clam, or is a kind of dragon.

Qilin: The male beast is a unicorn, and the female beast is a lin.

Ryoma: Horse body and dragon scales.

Flood Dragon: There scales called Flood Dragons, and they live in lakes and other water
gathering places.