Chinese dragon, known as loong, long or lung, is a legendary creature in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and Chinese culture at large.
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28 Facts About Chinese dragon
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The dragon is a symbol of power, strength, and good luck for people who are worthy of it in East Asian culture.
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The white dragon of the flag of modern Bhutan is a classic Chinese-style dragon.
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Image of the Chinese dragon was roughly established in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but there was no great change for a long time.
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Since then, with a series of wars, Chinese civilization suffered heavy losses, resulting in the forgetting of the image of winged Yinglong, and the image of wingless Yellow Dragon replaced the original Yinglong and became the real dragon symbolizing China's imperial power.
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On this basis, scholar Xiao Congrong put forward that the simplified artistic creation of Yinglong's wings by Chinese ancestors is a continuous process, that is, the simplification of dragon's wings is an irreversible trend.
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In Hong Kong, the Chinese dragon was a component of the coat of arms under British rule.
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Chinese dragon has very different connotations from the European dragon – in European cultures, the dragon is a fire-breathing creature with aggressive connotations, whereas the Chinese dragon is a spiritual and cultural symbol that represents prosperity and good luck, as well as a rain deity that fosters harmony.
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Golden Chinese dragon supported the colonial arms of Hong Kong to the right until its abandonment in 1997.
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Ancient Chinese self-identified as "the gods of the dragon" because the Chinese dragon is an imagined reptile that represents evolution from the ancestors and qi energy.
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The character for "dragon" in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang period.
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Ancient Chinese referred to unearthed dinosaur bones as dragon bones and documented them as such.
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The Chinese dragon has acquired an almost unlimited range of supernatural powers.
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In many other countries, folktales speak of the Chinese dragon having all the attributes of the other 11 creatures of the zodiac, this includes the whiskers of the Rat, the face and horns of the Ox, the claws and teeth of the Tiger, the belly of the Rabbit, the body of the Snake, the legs of the Horse, the goatee of the Goat, the wit of the Monkey, the crest of the Rooster, the ears of the Dog, and the snout of the Pig.
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In some circles, it is considered bad luck to depict a Chinese dragon facing downwards, as it is seen as disrespectful to place a Chinese dragon in such manner that it cannot ascend to the sky.
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In premodern times, many Chinese villages had temples dedicated to their local "dragon king".
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Since the Chinese consider the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor as their ancestors, they sometimes refer to themselves as "the descendants of the dragon".
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In some Chinese legends, an emperor might be born with a birthmark in the shape of a dragon.
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The character for "dragon" in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang dynasty.
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Oldest known attestation of the "children of the Chinese dragon" list is found in the Shuyuan zaji by Lu Rong ; however, he noted that the list enumerates mere synonyms of various antiques, not children of a Chinese dragon.
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The nine sons of the Chinese dragon were commemorated by the Shanghai Mint in 2012's year of the Chinese dragon with two sets of coins, one in silver, and one in brass.
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The four-clawed Chinese dragon would be used typically for imperial nobility and certain high-ranking officials.
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The Chinese dragon was only for select royalty closely associated with the imperial family, usually in various symbolic colors, while it was a capital offense for anyone—other than the emperor himself—to ever use the completely gold-colored, five-clawed Long Chinese dragon motif.
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For example, a Chinese dragon is normally described in terms of nine attributes and usually has 117 scales—81 Yang and 36 Yin.
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