What is the dragon lady?

Dragon Lady is a figure in myths and legends.

The dragon lady is the wife of the dragon king in myths and legends, and is often the daughter of the dragon king. The legendary image of dragon girl originally came from Buddhism. Buddhist scriptures were translated into Chinese in the Tang Dynasty, so the image of dragon girl introduced by Buddhism first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The representative of the dragon girl in Li in Tang Dynasty is Chuan, whose image is a woman who is saved by a man and falls in love with him.

Influenced by Liu Yichuan, many images of dragon girls in later generations are mainly heterogeneous images of marriage and love with human beings. The girl dragon girl around Guanyin Bodhisattva is the 19th woman in the "Twenty Celestial Realms", Sagarra, the daughter of the King of Chang. She is clever. When she was eight years old, she happened to hear Manjusri Bodhisattva say Hokkekyo in the Dragon Palace, and she had an epiphany, so she went to jiusan to worship Buddha and made the Buddha herself.

The origin of the word "dragon girl";

According to Li's Biography of the Tang Dynasty and China Folklore, during the Yifeng period in the Tang Dynasty, scholars went from Chang 'an to Korodi and returned to the south via Jingyang, Shaanxi. A beautiful girl is herding sheep by the river in Lu Yu, with a sad face and looking at the south and crying. Asked the reason, I realized that she was the daughter of the Dragon King of Dongting and married the second son of King Jinghe. The dragon lady was bullied in the Dragon Palace in Jinghe, and was also driven out of the palace to graze sheep in the suburbs, where she slept and suffered.

Knowing the unfortunate experience of the dragon girl. Liu Yi was very angry and decided to go to Yueyang to deliver letters to Dragon Lady. Liu went all the way to Dongting Lake and found the orange well mentioned by the dragon lady. On an orange tree near the well, she tapped the dragon lady Jin Chai three times, and the sea patrol hag was shocked to descend from the orange well to the Dragon Palace in Dongting Lake, where "the pavilions are opposite, the portals are tens of millions, exotic flowers and exotic trees are all-encompassing".

Knowing that the dragon girl was humiliated and bullied in Jinghe, the dragon king couldn't help crying. Qiantangjun, the younger brother of the Dragon King who was imprisoned in Dongting, was very angry when he learned about his situation. Break free from the chains, turn into a red dragon, go straight to Jinghe River, kill Jingyang Jun's family and recapture the dragon girl. Dragon Lady was saved, deeply admired Liu Yi, and was willing to commit suicide. However, honest and kind Liu Yi insisted that "a gentleman values righteousness over profit", so he declined politely and went home alone. Dragon girl respects him more and follows him. After many twists and turns, she finally formed a happy couple with Liu Yi.

According to the story, Liu Yi is a shepherdess in Lu Yu. This woman asked him to deliver letters for her, claiming that she is the daughter of the Dragon King of Dongting. Liu Yi sympathized with the misfortune of the dragon lady and asked curiously, "Since you are the dragon lady, what's the use of herding sheep?" Does God keep livestock for slaughter, just like people? "The dragon lady replied," This is not a sheep, but a rain worker. "Liu Yi asked," What is a rain worker? " Dragon lady replied, "thunder or something." "Dragon lady is a shepherd, and she is not a special sheep, but an elf who follows the dragon to fetch water.