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Identifier: liondragoninnort00john (find matches)
Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ring shrine. The dragon, as is well known, figuresprominently in Chinese myth and legend and inChinese art-conceptions. It is regarded as a kind ofsymbol of empire and of things imperial: the dragon-body is the emperors person; the dragon-seat isthe emperors throne; the dragon-pen is theimperial autograph ; the dragon-flag is the imperialstandard. The myths connected with the dragon arevague and conflicting and no doubt they are of variousorigins, though Taoism, always an eclectic religion,has found room for them all in its capacious system.There are the dragons of the four quarters of theuniverse and a fifth for the centre; there are the four 1 We need not jeer at Chinese simplicity in this matter unless wereserve some of our gibes for the good folk of Settrington, Yorkshire,where it is considered prudent during a thunder-storm to leave thehouse door open in order to enable the lightning to get out if it shouldcome in. (County Folk-lore, vol. ii.: North Riding of Yorkshire,PP. 43-4-)
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SERPENT-WORSHIP 387 dragons of the seas (Hat lung wang), the dragon ofrain and clouds, the earth dragon (who is closelyconcerned with feng-shui1), the dragon of hiddentreasures, the heavenly dragon, and several proteandragons that can assume any shape and go anywherethey please. The Mother-dragon, judging from herclay image in the temples, seems to be quite anordinary and rather benevolent old lady, who—onemight think—should have been the last person inthe world to give birth to an uncanny son; but eventhe Dragon himself is similarly privileged to be repre-sented by the image of a man. Serpent-worship, which was one origin of thedragon-mythology,2 seems to have left several tracesof its existence in China : large snakes—especially inlocalities where snakes are rare—are often supposedto be manifestations of the divine Dragon.3 There isanother superstition to the effect that certain evildemons can assume a serpent-like shape and drivemen to death by haunting them and climbing on

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