1. On February 2, the dragon raises its head. The Dragon Heads Up (the second day of the second lunar month), also known as the "Spring Plowing Festival", "Farming Festival" and "Spring Dragon Festival", is a traditional Chinese folk festival. Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, legend has it that it is the day when the dragon raises its head. It is a traditional festival in China. Celebrate the "Dragon Head Festival" to show respect to the dragon and pray for rain, so that God can bless the harvest.
2. Longyou was tricked by shrimps in the shallows, and tigers were bullied by dogs when they fell to Pingyang. "A dragon swims in shallow water and is tricked by a shrimp" is a folk saying. It is similar to a tiger that falls flat and is bullied by a dog, a phoenix that falls on a slope is inferior to a chicken, etc. It is a metaphor for a person who is bullied by a weak person after losing power.
3. Dragons mate with dragons, phoenixes mate with phoenixes, and mice’s friends can dig holes. Dragons make friends with dragons, phoenixes make friends with phoenixes, and mice’s friends can dig holes: a metaphor for making friends with whoever they want.
4. Eat like a dragon and work like a worm. He is very excited and energetic when eating, but like a worm when doing housework and labor.
5. A dragon cannot survive without clouds, and a fish cannot survive without water. First of all, this is a proverb, which means: the existence or development of anything depends on other things.
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The dragon ranks fifth among the twelve traditional Chinese zodiac animals. It is also called the phoenix, turtle, and lin in the "Book of Rites·Liyun Ninth" "Four Spirits". The Dragon in Western mythology is also translated as Jackie Chan, but the two are not the same. The creatures in ancient Chinese folk myths and legends that can be seen in Chinese classics cannot be found in reality, but the components of their images are derived from reality and play the role of dispelling evil, avoiding disasters, and praying for blessings.
In China, the dragon has gone through four major stages of development: the totem worship stage, the god worship stage, the combination of dragon god worship and emperor worship, the combination of Buddhist Naga dragon worship and Chinese dragon worship. The combining stage.
In the totem worship stage, some tribes in ancient China regarded the dragon as a totem, as the ancestor and symbol of their tribe. According to historical documents and related legends, the dragon (originally a snake) was originally the totem of the Fuxi clan, and later became the totem of the Taihao (Taihao) tribe. The Taichong tribe is one of the most important origins of dragon totem worship.
In the stage of god worship, agriculture and animal husbandry gradually took shape, and religious beliefs also developed, transitioning from relatively single totem worship to polytheistic worship. Dragon totem worship also developed into dragon god worship. People deify the dragon and regard it as the god of water and rainbow. After the dragon was deified, it was integrated with the worship of the emperor. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the great unification of China required a suitable god to integrate the beliefs of various places and ethnic groups, so dragon worship was combined with emperor worship.
Ancient Chinese emperors described themselves as the incarnation or son of the Dragon God, or as people protected by the Dragon God. They used the dragon to establish authority and gain widespread trust and support from people. In this way, the dragon gained a more prominent status and played a very important role in the development of Chinese dragon culture.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Dragon Heads Up