Chinese dragon culture

Author: Wang Da Da
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: This book is an outline of the history of the Chinese Dragon Culture. It highlights the unique contributions of the Dragon Ancestor Fuxi and his successors in the construction of the ancient Chinese astronomical system. From academic perspectives such as paleontology, astrometry, phenology, ethnology, and textual studies, it deciphers the truth behind the transformation of the Chinese dragon from a real animal to a cultural and astronomical symbol. It also explores the tribal and descendant groups that used the dragon as a totem and emblem, who, over at least ten thousand years, created the Great Mountain Calendar, the Fusang Jianmu Calendar, the Sun-Moon Five Planets Calendar, and the Phenological Calendar during their key eras. The great inventions of the Shangyuan Taichu Calendar, the Four Lands of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise, the Three Enclosures of Ziwei, Tian Shi, and Taiwei, the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions, the Ten Heavenly Stems, the Twelve Earthly Branches, the Twelve Celestial Gates, the Twelve Segments, and the Twenty-Four Solar Terms by the clans of Fuxi, Shennong, Emperor Yan, Chiyou, Genggong, Xihe, Changxi, and Emperor Huang were instrumental in establishing and perfecting these systems. The essence of these achievements lies in directly piercing the gateway of the heavenly way and being in constant harmony with human breath; the historical traces of the spread of these accomplishments to India and Babylon.