The legendary ancestors of mankind, Fuxi and Nuwa, were both dragon-bodied and human-headed (or serpent-bodied and human-headed), and were also known as the "Dragon Ancestors". The ancestors of the Chinese nation, Emperor Yan Di and Emperor Huang Di, legend has it that they are closely related to the dragon, "Emperor Huang Di's dragon Xuanyuan's dragon figure out of the river" ("Bamboo Clerk's Year"), and it is said that Emperor Yan Di was born for his mother's induction of the "head of the divine dragon", and was transformed into a red dragon after his death. Therefore, the Chinese people call themselves "the descendants of the dragon".
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The Chinese nation has a fine tradition of great cohesion and unity. In the long course of history, many peoples in the world have died out, and among them there are many who have made outstanding contributions to mankind. But the Chinese nation for thousands of years, although experienced and nature and the enemy of the harsh struggle but not disintegrate, and increasingly prosperous, is because she has a glorious overall image, there is a unity and progress of the spirit of the bond, the dragon plays the role of maintenance and centripetal. Dragon culture has become an important part of Eastern culture and has made great contributions to human civilization.
I hope that each of us Chinese people become a Chinese dragon: "The dragon can be big and small, can rise and hide; big clouds and fog, small hidden intermediary hidden shape, rise in the universe between the soaring, hidden is lurking in the waves. The dragon rides the time to change, as if people have the will to cross the four seas. Dragon is a thing, comparable to the world of heroes. A hero is a person who has a great ambition, a good plan in his heart, and the will to hide the opportunity of the universe and to swallow the sky and the earth."
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