Chinese Dragon Research

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A Chinese dragon is a myth that was highly regarded in ancient China. In China, the dragon was a very important symbol to represent of power, strength and good luck by people associated with these traits or the ones who needed luck.
Dragons are known as Lung, based off the ancient Indiana Nagas.The dragon (Lung) is identified as one of the four primary benevolent spiritual animals.The symbol of all things male was the sun, the phoenix (feng) was female. The final two were the unicorn and the tortoise. After the creation of man, Tien Ti, the Emperor of Heaven, observed the wickedness of man and sent a flood which covered most of the land. Yu, a younger god, took pity and asked for man’s forgiveness. With Tien Ti’s permission Yu descended to earth with a giant black tortoise carrying magic soil to absorb the flood and an emerald scaled dragon whose wings he used to sculpt the land. For thirty years, he traveled the earth scattering the soil and used the dragon’s tail to carve out the steppes, mountains, rivers and valleys of China.
When drawing a symbol of a Chinese Dragon, nine entities
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The Eastern dragon has a long snake like body that is covered with scales. Many have hair or feathers running down the length of their back. They have long powerful tails with a spade shaped tip. At the end of each of their four legs were razor sharp claws which could tear through almost anything. The number of toes a dragon had represented which Asian country such as 3 toed dragons are Japanese, 4 toed dragons are Korean, and 5 toed dragons are Chinese. They have two antler-type horns decorating their wide-mouthed head, and two whiskers spreading out from their snout. Some eastern dragons had a great pearl in their throat or under its chin that symbolized wisdom and power.However,the eastern dragons had no wings but possessed magical powers which enabled them to fly and did not have the ability to breathe