Where did the dragon of Chinese national belief come from? Why do you believe in dragons?

In primitive belief, people think that all the people of this clan originated from a certain species. In most cases, it is considered to be related to animals. So totem belief is related to ancestor worship.

In many totem myths, people think that their ancestors came from or were related to some animals or plants. So some animals and plants became the oldest ancestors of this nation, which is the origin of totem worship.

For example, in the Dong legend, its ancestors and mother mated with a big snake, gave birth to a man and a woman, and slowly multiplied to become the ancestors of the Dong people. It is said that Dong people are descendants of snakes.

In our creation myth, Fuxi and Nu Wa are both images with human heads and snake bodies. The original image of the dragon totem is a snake with neither horns nor claws.

The horned dragon probably originated in Shang Dynasty, when the worship of diagonal was very enthusiastic. They think that the horn is a symbol of strength, so all animals that sacrifice must have horns, and that's when the horned dragon began.

Dragon totem is probably the result of a powerful tribe believing in snake totem at that time. When this tribe defeated the tribe that believed in horse totem, it immediately merged the totem culture of the two tribes and put the horse's head on the snake to prove the strength of its tribe.

With the passage of time, this tribe has been fighting and growing year after year, and gradually appeared the totem image with horns like deer, scales like fish, head like horse, body like snake, claws like eagle and ears like cattle. This new species totem not only represents the strongest power, but also contains the meaning of being worshipped by the world-dragon totem.

In ancient mythology, the dragon is in charge of the weather changes and has the ability to call the wind and rain. In ancient times, people were puzzled by many natural phenomena, and were more afraid of natural phenomena and disasters such as wind, rain, thunder and electricity, so they felt awe. Starting from the psychology of celestial worship, ancient ancestors produced the most primitive image of the dragon.

The earliest dragons came from the distorted image of lightning, and the pronunciation came from the rumbling thunder. Through the observation of nature and astronomical phenomena, the ancestors thought that there was a sacred thing in the sky that could summon wind and rain, thunder and appear in the form of lightning. According to the thunder, they call it a dragon.

Whenever the weather is overcast, dark clouds are surging, thunder is rumbling, and sometimes lightning can be seen, ancestors know that dragons are coming. Moreover, the temperament of the dragon is unpredictable, which makes them feel very scared, and the more they feel awe. Thus, the worship of dragons began.

After the ancestors gradually entered the agricultural society, floods and droughts directly related to the prosperity of agriculture. In the eyes of ancestors, their harvest seems to have a lot to do with the magical dragon, so the dragon is closely related to the cultivation of crops. This may explain why, in China's mythology, dragons can be in charge of weather changes and food abundance.

Dragons can be big or small, can be raised or hidden; It's cloudy and foggy when it's big, and it's hidden when it's small; Rise and fly in the universe, hide and lurk in the waves. This spring is deep, dragons change with time, Jews succeed and travel all over the world. The dragon is a thing, comparable to the hero in the world.