The origin of dragons

Dragons originated in the early Neolithic period, not less than 8000 years ago. During this period, primitive ancestors did not simply and passively rely on God's reward. They raise wild horses, bison, wild boar, etc., not just eating the wild fruits they have picked up, but selectively planting grains for harvest.

They can skillfully use fire, learn to build simple houses with wood, start grinding stone tools and bone tools, make pottery by hand, and gradually settle down and engage in production activities. Production activities make people's contact with nature more and more extensive, and nature, as an incredible force outside people, has a greater impact on people's spiritual world.

The productivity of early society was low, and people lived in a harsh natural environment, unable to control the natural forces independently and unable to explain their own sources. They are full of illusions, longings and even fears about nature, and worship all kinds of natural or supernatural forces that are more powerful than human beings. This is the social foundation of totem and ghosts and gods. ?

The formation time of dragon totem can be traced back to the ancient Fuxi era. According to historical records, Fuxi, the ancestor of China, once witnessed a strange animal with a dragon head and a horse body in the Yellow River, and realized it, so he invented gossip. From then on, he regarded the dragon as a tribal symbol and was called the dragon owner.

Officials of Fuxi tribe are all named after dragons. There are Hao Ying Qianlong, Dating Dragon, Chaos Dragon General, Kang Yin Dragon Slayer and Lu Li Shui Long. The whole Fuxi tribe is a country of the Long family.

Extended data

As a totem, the dragon is different from the general totem. It is not a single animal, but a collection of many animals, which highlights the great national spirit of the Chinese nation-harmonious thought. The earliest gods in ancient mythology were not people, but animals-totems.

Primitive people can't distinguish the boundaries between human beings and animals, and think that an animal is its own ancestor and protector. This is a totem. Totem, as the ancestor and symbol of clan and tribe, is generally a single animal. When a clan and tribe have a merger war, the victors often destroy their totems after capturing each other, and the newly generated tribe still has a single totem.

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