Dragon in the Book of Changes
In Chinese culture, the "dragon" has always been a mysterious and important symbol as well as an important totem in national culture. Often people call themselves "the descendants of the dragon" and they can know where the "dragon" lives in Chinese Han culture. Such an important position.
As the important thing is important. What is the real "dragon"? As soon as this question is asked, many people may not be able to answer it.
In general folklore pictures, there are many images of dragons, but a closer look shows that the dragon in folklore is actually a patchwork combination of a bunch of different animals. "It" has antlers, wolf beaks, fish tentacles, and bird claws, snake bodies, and fish's flakes. Zoologists have done research on it, they believe that the "dragon" in Chinese culture is actually a fictitious creature, just a cultural totem.
However, in Xu Shen's "Shu Wen Jie Zi", he also said that the dragon is "the length of a lin worm, capable of dark and bright, capable of being thin and large, capable of being short and long, reaching the sky at the vernal equinox, and submerging in the abyss at the autumnal equinox." It is a creature that has existed... In short, there are many opinions, and no one can really make a conclusion.
In the Book of Changes, there are not a few hexagrams that mention the word "dragon". These descriptions of "dragon" were used by the martial arts novelist Jin Yong to invent the "eighteen palms of the dragon descending", and there are several familiar ones. Manipulations, such as "the dragon has regrets", "the flying dragon in the sky", "seeing the dragon in the field", "the dragon fighting in the wild"... and so on, have become quite familiar terms among the vast reading community.
However, familiar with the eyes, if you really want to find out the true meaning of these terms, or what is the "dragon" in these descriptions, probably not many people can say it clearly.
Because of this incomprehensible characteristic, the "dragon" in Han culture attracted great interest to Master Chen Yikui. After more than 50 years of research, he finally deciphered the "dragon" in ancient culture. The true meaning and truth of.
To put it bluntly, "dragon" is a natural phenomenon that everyone has seen and is familiar with. It is an abstract description that interprets the celestial phenomena in nature.
Yes, under the inheritance of the Han people's Yijing culture, the true appearance of the legendary beast "dragon" in mythology is actually thunder and lightning.
