The worship of dragons is a special phenomenon that has stretched for thousands of years in Chinese history. In the eyes of Chinese people, the dragon has extraordinary abilities. He has scales and horns, teeth and claws, can dig into the water, can hibernate and hibernate; he has natural power, can thunder and thunder. Regarding the image of the dragon, no exact image has been given no matter ancient or modern. But the image of the dragon that people express today is the perfect shape of the dragon. What was the original image of the dragon? snake. There are three main examples, one is ancient books, the other is historical records, and the third is the habit of mentioning dragons and snakes.
According to earlier and more reliable ancient documents, in ancient times, some famous tribes appeared on the land of China. The most famous ones are the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Yandi and Huangdi tribes in the Weihe River Basin, and the Shaohao tribe in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Taihao tribe in the Jianghuai Valley. It is said that the leader of the Yandi clan was "the head of the cow". Some scholars believe that the Yandi tribe uses the cow as its totem. However, according to the Yandi family's surname is "Jiang", it can be considered that the surname is from the matriline, Jiang is Qiang, so Yandi's matrilineal totem is sheep . The Yellow Emperor, according to Liezi·The Yellow Emperor, said: "The Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor fought in the wilds of Banquan. The handsome bear, the scorpion, the wolf, the leopard, the tiger and the tiger are the precursors, and the eagle, the eagle, the eagle, and the kite are the banners." The Huangdi tribe belongs to the Huaxia tribe; the Shaohao tribe and the Taihao tribe belong to the Dongyi tribe. The Shaohao tribe uses the bird as its totem, and the Taihao tribe uses the dragon as its totem. In the ancient times, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River where the Taihao tribes were active had a warm climate, most of the vegetation maintained the original pattern, and venomous snakes and beasts were everywhere. Seven or eight thousand years ago, people made stone tools and used collective power to hunt down beasts, but they were helpless against the poisonous snakes that existed in the grassy jungle and could survive on the lakeside of the swamp. The heart of fear respects the snake as a god.