{"id":22003,"date":"2022-11-22T14:45:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/?p=22003"},"modified":"2022-11-22T14:45:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T06:45:06","slug":"dragons-in-ancient-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/dragons-in-ancient-china.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Dragons Really Exist In Ancient China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"37c28470d9d6d3cb9ff74e663adb766a\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3594734025006597\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>As we all know, dragons and phoenix are creatures that people imagine, but they do not exist. But in ancient times, people were extremely awe of dragons. In ancient times, the feudal dynasties were autocratic, and the emperor had the supreme power. They also believed that they were the real dragon and the emperor. There are many legends about dragons in ancient times, such as Ye Gong&#8217;s love of dragons. The story we are going to introduce today is also related to dragons. In the Xia Dynasty, someone even raised a dragon. What&#8217;s the matter?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22006\" title=\"hu24m2jxhkl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hu24m2jxhkl.jpg\" alt=\"hu24m2jxhkl\" width=\"640\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hu24m2jxhkl.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hu24m2jxhkl-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nIn fact, dragons have been very rare since ancient times. People believe that dragons can call the wind and call the rain. Therefore, we can see that the uniforms of emperors in ancient dynasties are embroidered with dragons. In earlier times, people did not have such a high degree of reverence for dragons, but they still liked dragons very much. For example, Kong Jia, the emperor of the Xia Dynasty, liked dragons very much and always wanted to raise a dragon.<br \/>\nLater, someone really gave Kongjia two dragons. However, ancient people did not know much about the living habits of dragons. So Kongjia raised dragons at that time. Although Kongjia liked these two dragons very much, he did not know how to raise them. In order to keep the two fire dragons well, Kong Jia collected a lot of delicacies, but the two dragons did not like them at all. Over time, the life breath of the two dragons became weaker and weaker, and gradually began to die. Therefore, Kongjia was very worried and searched around the country for people who could raise dragons.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22004\" title=\"2kz35waquop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2kz35waquop.jpg\" alt=\"2kz35waquop\" width=\"640\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2kz35waquop.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2kz35waquop-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nSo, Liu Lei, who claimed to be an expert on dragon cultivation, came. Liu Lei is not an ordinary person either. It is said that Liu Lei&#8217;s Shifu is an expert in raising dragons, and Liu Lei also happens to get his Shifu&#8217;s true biography. When Kong Jia heard this, he was naturally very happy, so he quickly summoned Liu Lei to the imperial palace to take charge of raising the two living dragons. But in fact, Liu Lei did not know about the life habits of the dragon, so a few days later, a dragon was raised to death by Liu Lei.<br \/>\nLiu Lei knew that he would definitely be punished in the future. Instead of letting the emperor take the initiative to find himself, he would go to the emperor himself. So Liu Lei made porridge out of the dead dragon and gave it to the emperor Kong Jia, but he sneaked out of the palace and hid his name. He never mentioned that he would raise a dragon again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22005\" title=\"hqervoqaskh\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hqervoqaskh.jpg\" alt=\"hqervoqaskh\" width=\"640\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hqervoqaskh.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/hqervoqaskh-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nIn the relevant historical records, a more detailed description of the appearance of these two dragons was made. However, after carefully studying the relevant introduction, the experts found that this was not a description of the dragon&#8217;s shape, but a description of the crocodile&#8217;s shape. At that time, people did not know that it was just a crocodile.<br \/>\nSo, does the dragon really exist? At the very least, we do not have a clear historical record. But it is certain that the dragon has become a belief in our life. For ancient people, the dragon is of great significance. As for the raising of dragons in the Xia Dynasty, we can only say that this is just a figment of the imagination. Liu Lei is just a charlatan. In order to get the emperor&#8217;s reward, he went to the palace to cheat. In addition, we also learned that in the environment at that time, people did not respect dragons as much as future generations of emperors. Later generations of emperors believed that dragons were powerful. However, Xia emperors kept dragons in captivity as pets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"37c28470d9d6d3cb9ff74e663adb766a\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3594734025006597\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we all know, dragons and phoenix are creatures that people imagine, but they do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3174],"tags":[3186,3187],"class_list":["post-22003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancient","tag-ancient-china","tag-chinese-dragon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22003"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22009,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22003\/revisions\/22009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}