All About Dragon
03/18/2024 Monday 38-50F Mostly Cloudy Blog from https://www.lotusandmichael.com/ "Among the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, the dragon is the only one that exists totally in people’s imagination. Nobody ever saw it; but everyone heard about it, adored it, and it has become a totem of Chinese culture for centuries. The ancient documentation describes the dragon’s appearance as having “nine similarities”: It has bull’s head, snake’s body (that’s why some people call the snake “Lesser Dragon”), deer’s antler, shrimp’s eyes, lion’s nose, donkey’s mouth, cat’s ears, eagle’s claws, and fish’s tail. When we put all these nine components together, a vivid dragon reveals itself. According to Chinese tales, a dragon could fly into the heavens, swim in the ocean; climb and gallop; it could transform, hide; decrease to be tiny, and expand to be huge. Since it was the only species which people in the old days believed could cross between the heaven and water,