Brief introduction of dragon totem content

Hu Xiaoqi Fuxin long cultural research institute

The dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, which is determined by the cultural inheritance and development in China for 8,000 years, and has long been accepted by most people. However, some experts and scholars do question that dragons are not the totem of the Chinese nation. According to the concept of totem, animals as totems should be real animals in reality, while dragons are fictional, and fictional animals cannot be used as totems. Totem is related to clan by blood, while dragon is fictional and has no blood relationship with people. Animals, as totems, should be worshipped by people, and in the Chinese nation, there are legends of killing dragons, chopping dragons and eating dragon meat; The general "totem theory" can't answer questions such as "the origin of dragons". People who say that the dragon is not a totem of the Chinese nation actually have no idea about the origin of the dragon and what a totem is.

To answer whether the dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation, we must first correctly answer the question of the origin of the dragon; Secondly, we must figure out what totem is; The third is to answer why the dragon has become the totem of the Chinese nation. These three questions are indeed very complicated and difficult, and many experts and scholars have spent their whole lives trying to find satisfactory answers. Therefore, these three issues are still the focus of academic debate. Based on the research of experts and scholars, this paper attempts to briefly answer these three questions by synthesizing all kinds of reasonable research results.

First, the origin of the dragon

1, the origin of Chahai Shilong. The discovery of Shilong 8000 years ago in the tea sea of Fuxin provided important material evidence for solving the mystery of the origin of the dragon. This stone dragon is about 20 meters long and 2 meters wide, like the body of a huge python, but it has no head or feet, which is the most primitive form of loong. Wen Yiduo, a famous scholar, said when studying the origin of dragons: dragons originated from snakes, and snakes are dragons. When studying the origin of dragons, many experts think that dragons are closely related to snakes, and the dragon body is the snake body, which everyone can admit. If dragons originated from snakes, do pythons in nature have such a big body?

2. Explore Oracle Bone Inscriptions's explanation of dragons. Oracle Bone Inscriptions, hieroglyphics, like a dragon. Original intention: In ancient legends, a magical animal with scales and beards can make clouds and rain.

Oracle Bone Inscriptions gave the most vivid explanation of the word "dragon", which was both vivid and highly summarized. Animals and snakes are used to describe dragons in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. First of all, it is a mysterious force driven by heaven, which is the highest god in the eyes of the ancients. Second, its sound is rumbling; Third, its image is lightning, its body is like a python, and its head is hidden in the clouds; Fourth, her tool is the cloud; Fifth, its function is to accept God's will and sow rain. According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions's explanation of dragons, many people think that the ancients mystified snakes or some animals, which is the myth of dragons.

What animals in the animal kingdom have such great magical power? At present, there are different opinions about the origin of dragons in academic circles. For example, python theory, crocodile theory, lizard, dinosaur, giant salamander, hippo, pig, horse, cow, dog, pine tree, Thor, lightning, cloud god, rainbow, spring scenery, snake-based comprehensive totem theory and so on. , are far-fetched, unconvincing, unable to justify. All animals don't have the function of dragons. No matter how big a python is, it can't fly in the sky, let alone call the wind and rain. Crocodiles and pythons can't fly into the sky, can't summon wind and rain, and have no ability to destroy houses and trees. Why should the ancients fear and worship these animals without earth-shattering skills?

3. Looking at dragons from Shuo Wen Jie Zi. Xu Shen explained in Shuo Wen Jie Zi: "The dragon, the scale worm's length, can be quiet and bright, can be fine and huge, can be short and long, the vernal equinox reaches the sky, and the autumn equinox is deep." The characteristics of dragons are introduced simply and clearly.

A dragon's body is like a python. Sometimes it is dark, sometimes it is bright. It is big or small, short or long, long enough to connect the world and the earth; Dragons appear in spring and climb into the sky, but they hide and disappear in autumn.

Is there such an animal in nature that can be quiet and bright, fine and huge, short and flat, ascend to the sky at the vernal equinox and dive deep at the autumnal equinox? The answer is clear, there is no such animal in nature. So what makes you think dragons are aquatic animals according to Xu Shen's description of dragons? Is the length of inchworm an animal? Are all the animals in the water diving at the autumnal equinox? Many researchers are based on this explanation, saying that the length of the long forest worm is a scaly animal, either a python or a crocodile; Divers must be animals in the water, which is obviously a misunderstanding. But the natural phenomenon of dragon mentioned by Xu Shen does exist in nature.

4. Explore six natural phenomena about dragons in the Book of Changes. The earliest writing about the ecological characteristics of dragons belongs to Zhouyi. The Book of Changes takes hexagrams as the unit, and there are sixty-four hexagrams in the book. Each six-pointed star has four components. That is, painting, name, character and character. The structure of Yi Gua is divided into three levels. The smallest unit is, and the basic unit is. Each hexagram consists of two hexagrams, or six hexagrams. There are eight hexagrams, namely Gan, Kun, Kan, Li, Xun, Zhen, Gen and Dui. They respectively represent eight natural substances such as astronomy, geography and divination. Eight Classics and hexagrams overlap each other to form sixty-four hexagrams. The combination of classics and hexagrams resulted in compound hexagrams with internal relations. According to the physical properties of the things represented by the Eight Classics and the Eight Diagrams, a series of contradictions are formed to symbolically summarize various phenomena of nature and society. Gua Ci, Yi Ci, Nuo and Xiang explain these contradictions from different angles, so as to judge the fate of the object and personnel. In ancient China, The Eight Diagrams of the Book of Changes was a cultural and ideological theoretical system widely used by all social strata, and was used by politicians, rulers and military personnel to strategize and govern the country. People regard it as a tool to keep healthy, predict their fate and make profits in business. The practical application level of Zhouyi Bagua lies in the depth of understanding its meaning. A master, as a Tessa and a hero, has the ability to reach the sky and the earth. For thousands of years, gossip has been closely arranged and combined, and the logic is as constant as mathematical axioms. People's interpretation and understanding of gossip exists in different periods and schools. Since ancient times, the cause of gossip has been a mystery, and no one can come up with scientific facts to analyze the complete origin of gossip.

The Eight Diagrams originated in innate gossip created by Fuxi (about 7000 years ago), and used the combination of Yin and Yang to illustrate the eight primitive substances of heaven and earth. Later, Taoism regarded Fuxi as a god. The acquired gossip comes from Zhou Wenwang, and the acquired gossip is different from Fuxi innate gossip. Its meaning remains unchanged. Eight diagrams symbolize eight natural phenomena: heaven, earth, thunder, wind, water, fire, mountains, so as to infer the changes of nature and society. Eight natural phenomena intersect to form sixty-four hexagrams. The dragon's environment and form in the book of changes "Gangua" show good fortune and bad luck: the hidden dragon in Gangua is in the deep, or sees the dragon in the field, or leaps over the imperial garden, or the dragon is in the sky, or the dragon has no head, or the dragon has regrets. These six hexagrams in the melon are all declared as natural images.

Fuxi also observed the "dragon" in the sky to determine the season and the beginning of the year. In the Book of Changes, the first nine days of divination "don't use hidden dragons", the second day of divination "see dragons in the fields", the fourth day of divination "jump into the deep", the fifth day of divination "drop dragons", the ninth day of divination "drop dragons" and the ninth day of divination "have no heads", indicating that dragons are just below the horizon. This "six dragons" refers to the changes in different seasons and seasons, and the astronomical phenomena seen at dusk. If twelve months of the year correspond to six-shaped dragons, November and December, don't use hidden dragons; In February of the first month, I saw dragons in the fields. March and April, working all day; May and June, or jump in the deep sea; In July and August, the flying dragon is in the sky; In September and October, Kang Long regretted it.

The Book of Changes explains the truth of being a man by observing astronomy and investigating geographical and natural phenomena, leaving us precious wealth. We don't discuss the truth of being a man here, but emphasize divination. We say that since all the 64 hexagrams are natural elephants, and the six forms of dragons in the dry hexagrams are also natural elephants, when discussing the origin of dragons, we should think from natural phenomena. The dragon that the ancients saw at that time should be an objective natural phenomenon, not invented by the ancients. Sixty-four hexagrams are all objective images of nature and are true. Why do we insist that the shape of the dragon is fictitious when discussing the origin of the dragon? Through the analysis of cantaloupe, it can be inferred that the dragon shape in cantaloupe must also be a real natural phenomenon.

Let's further analyze the divinatory image of "it is auspicious to have a leaderless group of dragons". Why are there leaderless people? When our ancestors saw the dragon for the first time, they only saw the body of the dragon, but could not see the head. The dragon's head is always hidden in the clouds, and a dragon has no head. All dragons have no heads, so there is the concept of headless dragon. We have to ask why the ancients didn't make a pack of headless wolves. A group of headless tigers and a group of headless bears? Why did you invent the word leaderless? According to dialectical materialism epistemology, people's knowledge comes from social existence. Let's talk about Fuxi, an ancient man. In Fuxi era, a mysterious and horrible natural phenomenon was often seen in the summer sky. A python is flying in the air, making a rumbling sound. Its head is always hidden in the clouds. People have never seen the head of this python, so the concept of leaderless was born. Therefore, it is auspicious to take the homonym "Ji" of the last word "Ji" of "Dragon without Head", which means that the hexagram of "Dragon without Head" is auspicious. That's how leaderless was born.

Because the dragon has no head, its body is like a huge python. As soon as it appears, it is attached to the ground, making a rumbling sound, accompanied by storms, lightning and thunder. What kind of natural phenomenon is this?

5. We began to further explore the essence of dragons from Fuxi, the ancestor of China. Fuxi is a snake head; According to the literature, Fuxi used dragons to keep accounts, and all department heads were named after dragons. Fuxi himself is called the Dragon Master. Fuxi's "correct surname, make marriage". China's surname originated from Fuxi. He asked others to take their animals and plants as their surnames, or their residence and official position as their surnames, while Fuxi himself took the wind as his surname. Why did Fuxi paint his head on the snake? Why is the official name decided by the dragon? Why did Fuxi give his surname Feng? What is the relationship between "dragon snake wind"? The traditional Chinese character of the wind is "wind", and the outer frame of the wind represents the meaning of the sky. There is a bug in the world that has the word wind. Shuowenjiezi explains that "wind" is a "worm driven by wind", and the worm here is a dragon, because the word dragon is called the length of a scale worm in Shuowenjiezi, which means that the dragon is shaped like a snake, and because snakes are also called long worms, dragons are closely related to snakes. Insects (dragons) can only be produced when the wind moves, which shows that the relationship between wind and dragons is also very close. Through the above analysis, we can draw a conclusion that the relationship among "dragon, snake and wind" is that the dragon is named after its rumbling sound, and the image of the dragon is a snake. There are big snakes flying in the world, which will inevitably produce wind. So the essence of the dragon is the wind. Fuxi, our ancestor, called this big snake that boomed and fluttered between heaven and earth a natural phenomenon of dragons, but it was actually a tornado. Because the ancients believed that thunder, electricity, wind, rain, clouds and rainbows were all manipulated by gods, the natural phenomenon of tornado was also regarded as sacred. When the ancients first painted dragons, the image of dragons was like a python. In order to distinguish between dragons and snakes, and avoid the mixing of dragons and snakes, the ancients called snakes crawling on the ground "little dragons"; This big snake, which can reach the sky and bring rain to fly in the sky, is called "dragon", from which the word dragon is in the sky and there is no leader.

Chahai Shilong has no head and no feet, which is consistent with the phenomenon that dragons in ancient times had no head described in the Book of Changes.

Looking through the ancient books, there is no record of tornadoes in the documents before the Han Dynasty. Is this an omission of the ancients? No, the ancients did not miss it. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's and Zhouyi's descriptions of dragons completely conform to the characteristics of tornadoes, and the dragons recorded by the ancients are tornadoes. It's just that no one has studied this before. Ignoring the connection between dragons and natural phenomena. The excavation of the stone dragon in Chahai, Fuxin, proved that the dragon 8000 years ago had no head and claws, which was enough to prove that it was a tornado.

The explanation of the word "dragon" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi shows that the primitive dragon is not fiction, but a natural phenomenon, and only the natural phenomenon tornado can conform to the explanation of the word "dragon". The length of a scale insect is that it has a long body like a python, and a tornado has a long body like a python; It can be quiet or bright. Tornadoes can be divided into black dragons and white dragons. When a tornado appears in the dark sky, it is often accompanied by lightning, so it can be quiet and bright. When there is a tornado in the distance, the dragon observed by people is of course thin, and it will feel thick when it is observed close; Similarly, it can be short or long, connecting the sky and the earth; Tornadoes occur in spring and summer, and summer is more than spring. Tornadoes can suck water from rivers, lakes and oceans into the air and bring rain. After the autumnal equinox season, the objective conditions for the occurrence of tornadoes have disappeared, and people naturally can't see tornadoes, thinking that dragons dive into the water. This is actually a misunderstanding.

We find that Oracle Bone Inscriptions's interpretation of the word "dragon" is very consistent with that of a tornado. There is no exaggeration or myth at all, but the natural phenomenon of tornado is mistaken for a mysterious terrorist force and the highest god in the hearts of the ancients.

To be exact, people in ancient times have long discovered and recorded the natural phenomenon of tornadoes. Due to the low level of productivity, people's ability to understand nature is limited, so they can't accurately describe the natural phenomenon of tornado, and mistakenly think that tornado is a sacred thing sent by heaven to adjust rainfall; It makes a rumbling sound; Its body is like a snake; It goes up and down and flies in the air; Its appearance brought lightning and storms; Its power is enormous, which can destroy houses, uproot trees and drag people and animals into the air. The disaster caused by tornado is very terrible. After the tornado, a rainbow appeared in the sky, showing a peaceful scene. The rain brought by the tornado relieved the drought in China. The ancestors in the inland arid areas also hoped that the dragons would bring more rain and good weather.

Some people will retort that tornadoes can be driven or ridden? The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that the emperor sent Ying Long to defeat Chiyou and Dayu to control water, Lapras traveled around the world, and the Yellow Emperor Lapras ascended to heaven. ...

Wang Chong, a scholar in the Han Dynasty, said: The world says that the Yellow Emperor ascended to heaven by riding a dragon, which is false. The secular praise for the Yellow Emperor's ability to ride a dragon to heaven is probably false.

Shan Hai Jing is an ancient mythological novel. The stories mentioned above are all stories in fairy tales. This novel records the rich natural resources in China and describes the characteristics of dragons in many places. Dragons can fly to the sky, rain, be quiet, be bright, rumble, and make fake dragons to beg for rain. This is an objective and true description of tornadoes, and it is no exaggeration. The emperor sent Ying Long to defeat Chiyou, Dayu Lapras to control water, and Emperor Lapras ascended to heaven. These are all fictional fairy tales. Legend has it that Chiyou's iron arm and copper head are very powerful. Perhaps Chiyou was defeated by a tornado when he invaded the emperor's territory, which led to the legend that the emperor defeated Chiyou with dragons. The ancients showed China people's reverence for dragons through the mythical novel Shan Hai Jing, which mainly reflected China people's good wish to use, control and harness dragons to serve mankind.

6. The dragon is the myth of aquatic life. Legend has it that dragons can eat, eat and ride. Dragons are aquatic creatures. See Zuozhuan Zhao Gong Twenty-nine Years. In autumn, dragons appear on the periphery of the crimson earth. Wei Xianzi asked Cai Yong, "I heard that insects are not as clever as dragons because they can't be caught alive. Do you feel very smart? " Cai Mo said: "It is really that people are not smart, not that dragons are smart. Dragons were raised in ancient times, so there are dragons and dragons in China. " The fairy said, "I have heard of these two families, but I don't know their origins." What are you talking about? " Cai Mo replied: "In the past, the king of Shu had a descendant named Dongfu. He really liked dragons, and he could understand their hobbies and feed them. When Rondo went to him, he tamed and raised dragons to serve Shun Di. Shundi gave him the surname Dong and Chilong, and sealed him in Chichuan. The Chi family are his descendants. Therefore, Shun Di has kept dragons for generations. Kong Jiashun, the monarch of Xia Dynasty, received a dragon drive from the emperor, and the emperor gave him two rivers, one male and one female. Kong Jia couldn't support them, and he didn't find Kay Long Xing. Some people, Tao Tang's family has declined. Later, Liu Lei learned how to train dragons from Chilong's family to serve Kong's family and improve them. Kong Jia rewarded him with the name of Yulong, and replaced the descendants of Qian Wei with him. One of the females died, so Liu Lei secretly chopped it into a paste for Kong Jia to eat, and Kong Jia ate it, and later asked Liu Lei to find it again. Liu Lei got scared and moved to Lu Xian County. Fan is his descendant. " The fairy said, "Why not now? Cai Mo replied, "There are officials in charge of everything. Officials should consider these things sooner or later when they have a fixed management style. If you neglect your duty, you will lose your life. If you lose your official position, you can't get paid. Officials have been engaged in this work for generations, and creatures will come. If eliminated and discarded, organisms will lurk on their own, and depression will not grow. So there are officials in charge of the five elements, called the five senses. They inherit the surname from generation to generation, the title is the Lord and the sacrifice is your god. Respect and worship them in the sacrifices of the land gods, the five-grain gods and the five-element gods. The length of the wood officer is called Ju Mang, the length of the fire officer is called Zhu Rong, the length of the gold officer is called Ru Shou, the length of the water officer is called Xuanming, and the length of the soil officer is called Been. The aquatic creature dragon has been abandoned, so it can't be captured alive.

From the conversation between Wei Xianzi and Cai Mo, we can see that dragons appear in the periphery of crimson land. Wei Xianzi and Cai Mo have never seen dragons, and they started talking about dragons only when they heard that dragons appeared in the suburbs of crimson land. Because the "dragon" can't be captured alive, this is indeed a truth. Because the essence of dragons is wind, who can catch tornadoes?

The dialogue leads to Cai Mo's discussion about dragons. "I heard that ancient people, Emperor Shun's family, have kept dragons for generations, including the Dragon Family and the Dragon Family." It shows that Wei Xianzi, Cai Yong and Zuo Zhuan have never seen dragons, but they just heard that there were dragons in ancient times. "Kong Jia, the monarch of Xia Dynasty, obeyed the emperor, and the emperor gave him the dragon to drive", indicating that Shundi's dragon was used for driving. A dragon that can drive can't be a snake, a crocodile or a giant salamander. Only horses. In ancient times, horses over eight feet were dragons, so this kind of dragon that controls Shun Di should be horses over eight feet. Also known as the dragon horse. If the dragon drives the horse and the horse dies, of course the meat can be eaten. It is unreasonable for the author of Zuo Zhuan to describe the dragon-horse drive as an aquatic creature. Since ancient times, who has seen creatures in the water drive? What document records that animals in the water can drive? Which unearthed cultural relic proves that aquatic creatures can drive? In the real nature, there are no aquatic creatures that can drive. Therefore, Dayu's dragon cart, also a kind of carriage, cruised around Lapras to control the water.

"The official in charge of water has been abandoned, and the dragon can't be captured alive from now on" is even more unreasonable. Whether the dragon can be captured alive is related to the officials in charge of water. But it illustrates the fact that people have never caught a real dragon. Why can't you catch the real dragon? Can people catch tornadoes? Can't! If dragons are really aquatic creatures, then no matter how clever and cunning dragons are, they can't escape human capture. Wei Xianzi, the monarch of the State of Jin, and later people have never seen a real living dragon. This is a fact.

In the twenty-nine years of Zuo Zhuan, the discussion with Zhao Gong about dragons can only be legends and rumors. Zuo Qiuming thought it was heard and said that killing dragons, guarding dragons and eating dragon meat. How can we take the hearsay and legend as the basis for textual research? My conclusion is: just because dragons can bring rain and absorb water, they can't be said to be aquatic creatures. It is untenable to prove that dragons are aquatic animals with the viewpoint of Twenty-nine Years of Zuo Gong.

7. The conclusion about the origin of dragons. The mistake of the ancients was that they regarded the frightening natural phenomenon of tornadoes as gods and mistakenly thought that tornadoes were mysterious animals in charge of sex and rain in heaven. The mistake of later generations is that they are narrow-minded and always study and discuss the origin of dragons around animals, so they make mistakes again and again. Why do we have to touch animals? Up to now, the historical records about dragons are very rich, but there are no historical records about tornadoes in ancient books, only in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Is the historical data not rich, or is there something wrong with our thinking? The answer is: there is something wrong with our thinking. Legend has it that dragons can eat, eat meat and ride horses. Later generations mistakenly think that dragons are aquatic animals, and infer that dragons originated from crocodiles, pythons, hippos and other animals, which leads to misunderstandings in the study of dragon culture. Another way of thinking, we will find that the characteristics of dragons and tornadoes are very close, and all the mysterious characteristics of dragons originate from tornadoes. So we come to the conclusion that dragons originated from tornadoes.

Tornadoes are disastrous weather, but they can also bring rainfall and alleviate the drought in the north. Therefore, the ancestors of China people living in Northeast China, North China and Northwest China are in awe of dragons and look forward to them. Whenever there is a drought, people pray for the dragon to come early and bring rain, and gradually form a sacrificial culture ... (see Deciphering the Stone Dragon in the Sea)

Second, what is a totem?

Totem is the symbol of a tribal people, totem is the flag of a tribal people, and totem symbolizes a national spirit. It is also said that totem represents the blood relationship of the tribe, and totem is the patron saint of the tribe. This statement is incorrect, lacking scientific basis and unconvincing. For example, the dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation. Is the dragon related to the Chinese nation? Tigers, bears, wolves and eagles used to be the totems of some ethnic groups. Are these ethnic groups related to these animals? Obviously there is no blood relationship, nor is it the patron saint of these ethnic groups.

Totem is a sign that a nation or tribe is different from other nations or tribes. In ancient times, wars often occurred between tribes in clan society, plundering land, livestock and population. In order to survive and expand the sphere of influence of the nation, Emperor Yan and the emperor are brothers, and the two tribes also fought for their own interests. When there is a war, it is necessary to mobilize and organize people. In primitive society, there was no clothing logo like ours now. For example, athletes from all countries have their own sports clothes, and the ancients knew that there should be signs.

What should I use as a sign? Use the animal pattern that the tribe worships most as the logo. Different nationalities live in different areas, meet different animals and appreciate different animals, so the signs are different. It is marked with bears, tigers, wolves and eagles (not described here). Because the ancients mistook the tornado for the mysterious animal "dragon", thought that "dragon" was more fierce and powerful than any other animal, and tried to use the power of dragon to defeat opponents and strengthen the power of tribes, so many tribes in the north regarded the tornado "dragon" as a symbol of tribes. As a primitive dragon, a tornado is just a body similar to a python, so we can see that the symbol of the primitive dragon is a snake body, a standing snake and a flying snake. We know that in primitive times, the written records of Fuxi Nuwa were heads and dragons, but why do we see the patterns of heads and snakes? Now we finally understand that the original human head snake is the human head dragon. As the body of a dragon, the image of a tornado is like a big snake. Fuxi's surname is wind, because Fuxi thinks that the essence of dragons (tornadoes) is wind. As a tornado, dragons are the most powerful. If Fuxi wants to achieve his ruling goal, he must keep the most powerful surname for himself and let others take animals and plants as their surnames. Fuxi is called the Dragon Lord, which shows that his army is as powerful as a dragon and invincible. Fuxi remembered officials with dragons in order to make his officials as quick as dragons and improve efficiency. The reason why Fuxi is a snake with a head is our misunderstanding. In fact, Fuxi is a dragon with a head. Fuxi painted his head on the dragon's head, and used this pattern as a symbol of the tribe, so as to command the whole army by himself, defeat his opponents and realize the goal of the ruler. We later called it the leader of the dragon, perhaps from this. Therefore, Fuxi's head and dragon sign are symbols of rulers.

Totem is a flag, and logo is a flag. The logo pattern is painted on animal skins and usually hung in the center of the tribal square, so that the logo pattern can fly in the air. When the war broke out, the logo was inserted on the horse's back, and the horse was galloping and dancing with it. We can imagine what a spectacular scene this is. The logo map is a flag, a military flag and a battle flag, which plays the role of commanding, commanding, commanding and strengthening military prestige. Just like the warring parties in modern wars have their own flags, in fact, the ancients have long understood the role of flags, but these flags can't be preserved for a long time, and we can't witness them with our own eyes, or even find written records. All we can see now are tombs, stone carvings and written records dating back to 3000 years. For example, in pre-Qin ancient books, the dragon flag is the most, and only in the Book of Songs, there is "the dragon flag multiplied by ten, and the greatest one succeeded" (Ode to Shang Dynasty; Xuanniao ")," Dragon Flag Yin and Yang, Ring Bell "("Zhou Song; See ")," The dragon flag is presented, and the ear is liu er "("Truffle; Palace ") and other poems. These dragon flags were used to enjoy the ceremony, not only for offering sacrifices to Shang Zhouwang Wu Ding and the vassal Wang Lu, but also for offering sacrifices to the vassal when he came to Korea. The totem symbol of Fuxi Nuwa era is the dragon head.

So totem is a sign, a flag, not the blood relationship between ancestors and relatives. It is absurd to say that totem animals are related to ethnic groups but ancestors of a certain ethnic group.

Third, why did Chinese ancestors use dragons as totems? Make a flag? Dragon totem embodies a spirit. The ancients thought that the dragon was the most powerful, and it was connected with the world. It can remove all obstacles on the road, drag people and animals into the air, uproot trees and destroy houses. The speed of the dragon is extremely fast, which is a terrible force. Any animal and human are so small in front of the dragon. Yue Long Tiger Leaping: What a horrible scene. If the dragonfly flies, it will be struck by thunder, and the storm will destroy everything in sight. Tiger leaping is as fierce and terrifying as a hungry tiger pouncing on food. Long Yin Hu Xiao: What a terrible sound. Hearing a dragon moan is like hearing a tiger roar. Vibrant: Aren't you afraid of the living dragon and tiger in front of you? With the dragon's spirit and strength, it will be invincible and invincible. The ancestors of the Chinese nation relied on the dragon gods to defeat their opponents, constantly expand their territory, annex and integrate tribes. Dragon spirit is not only inclusive and harmonious, but also a tireless and never-ending spirit of struggle. Jackals, wolves, tigers, leopards, bears, eagles and other beasts all tremble before dragons, which is the most ferocious sacred object. Dragons are not only fierce and powerful, but also bring rainfall to alleviate the drought in the northern region. Every drought year, in order to look forward to early rain and good weather, people put the best food as sacrifices on the altar and pray for the rain of the "Dragon King". All people knelt down trembling and prayed for the appearance of the Dragon King, which is unimaginable to modern people.

Therefore, Chinese ancestors chose the dragon as a totem. Fuxi put his head on the head of the tornado "Dragon" and used the head of the dragon as a totem symbol. The leader of the dragon symbolizes the power of the ruler.

Because of this, the rulers of past dynasties called themselves the real dragon emperor.

Because the image of the primitive dragon is very simple, and the tornado has only a snake-like body, the ruler thinks it is not very beautiful, so the painter painted the dragon. After several dynasties' continuous innovation, processing, beautification, shaping, gilding the lily and making the finishing point, the image of the dragon was gradually improved, and the dragon we see today came into being. Therefore, dragon totem also has the spirit of innovation and development.

"Dragon" has infinite vitality, unpredictable and unpredictable. It is invincible, invincible, and can enter the sea from the top. Isn't it a symbol of the immeasurable creativity of our Chinese nation?

After 8,000 years of history, Chinese descendants, as descendants of the dragon, have continuously enriched, inherited and developed the dragon culture and deepened their understanding of the dragon. As the symbol and flag of the Chinese nation, the dragon totem may be out of date, but this "dragon" spirit is worth carrying forward. We should remove all obstacles on the road to the rise of the Chinese nation and let the spirit of the dragon be passed down forever.