The Chinese Dragon

Bronze Dragon, Kang Hsi Period Dragon Colonnade at Chufu Frontispieces Page Emperor Kang Hsi in Dragon Robes 1 The Dragon Throne of the Recent Emperors 2 The Han Dynasty Dragons...

There are real dragons living in China to-day. These are not the horrible monsters that some have imagined them to be. They are friendly creatures highly revered by all the peop...

The elaborate conception of the dragon which we find to-day in Chinese art and literature is undoubtedly a very different animal from the one which was responsible for the origi...

To the majority of people the word “dragon” denotes one animal only. There are, however, at least eight species of animals which bear this name. These are the Lung Wang, the She...

Comparatively few Chinese of the older generation seem to question the existence of dragons or to doubt the marvelous powers usually attributed to them. In view of this fact it...

In spite of the fact that modern zoölogy has never included in the pages of its textbooks descriptions and pictures of the dragon as a creature of reality, yet there are men in...

The dragon is not a conception of the Chinese mind alone. It also occupies a prominent place in the legends and literature of most of the countries of Europe. Cicero in his “de...

“The whiskers of the dragon,” according to a book of the Yuan dynasty, “are three feet long and purple in color. If dragon whiskers are mounted upon a crystal handle like a hors...

The surface of the earth is believed to be covered with a network of invisible paths of the dragon known as Lung Mei. People who build their houses or find graves for their dead...

Deaf people are called “lung,” a character formed by the combination of the dragon and ear characters signifying a person with ears like a dragon (which we are informed is deaf).