《汉字解码学》24 “龙”是中华民族的图腾 24 "Dragon" is the totem of the Chinese nation.

《汉字解码学》24  “龙”是中华民族的图腾。甲骨文“龙”字象一条龙的形象，线条生动而简洁。

龙  甲骨文象传说中之巨龙张口回绕之形。《说文》注：“鳞虫之长，能幽能明，能细能巨，能短能长，春分而登天，秋分而潜渊。从肉，飞之形,童省声。”徐铉注：“右旁象其宛转飞动之貌。”龙乃传说中之神异动物，中国古代作为帝王之象征。生物学上指远古之恐龙。

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龙 [龍] (名) ① dragon ② dragon as imperial symbol ③ a huge extinct reptile (dinosaur)。

目前发现的最早的中国龙形图案来自于约在8000年前的兴隆洼文化查海遗址，位于今内蒙古敖汉，临近辽宁阜新，为龙形堆塑，即用红褐色石块堆砌摆放的龙，全长近二十米，宽近两米，在村落遗址的中心广场内。最近发现的用海贝作的龙，也有6400年的历史。

《维基百科》介绍：传说中国的人类始祖伏羲、女娲，皆龙身人首（或蛇身人首），又被称为“龙祖”。华夏民族的先祖炎帝、黄帝，传说中和龙都有密切的关系，“黄帝龙轩辕氏龙图出河”（《竹书记年》），相传炎帝为其母感应“神龙首”而生，死后化为赤龙。因而中国人自称为“龙的传人”。

与西方的龙不同，东亚的龙是神圣祥瑞的象征。中国的古老的图腾中，有很多龙的雕塑都是腾云驾雾，翱翔九天的形象。这与一些民间传说有关，其中流传较广的有两则：一种说法是龙原本是地上的蛇，经过很长很长的时间来采集天地灵气与日月精华，蜕变为蛟，蛟又经过蜕变最终才成为龙，才具有掌管风雨和飞天的能力；另一种说法是，古时大海里有一座门，叫做龙门。这个龙门很大，大到看不到全貌。有一天，一条鲤鱼游到了龙门下被挡住了，鲤鱼就想跳过龙门游到其他地方。经过无数次跳跃，鲤鱼终于跳过了龙门，但此时鲤鱼却变成了另一种形象，长长的身体布满鳞片，头上有两个像鹿角的角，又长出了4条腿，还有着鹰爪，上能通天，下能潜海，又有呼风唤雨的能力。这个传说后来变成的“鱼跃龙门”的故事。

传说龙能隐能显，春风时登天，秋风时潜渊。又能兴云致雨和腾云驾雾。龙后成为皇权象征，皇帝又称为真龙天子，皇宫使用器物也以龙为装饰。龙被中国先民作为祖神敬奉，普遍尊尚“龙”。

24 "Dragon" is the totem of the Chinese nation. Oracle "Dragon" word as a one-stop image, vivid lines and simple.

Dragon Oracle as the legendary dragon mouth rewinding shape. "Shuo Wen" Note: "Scale insects of the long, able to secluded, can be fine to giant, can be short to long, the vernal equinox and ascending, autumnal equinox and latent." From the meat, flying shape, Tong Sheng. The dragon is the legendary god of animals, ancient China as a symbol of the emperor. Biology refers to the ancient dinosaur.
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Dragon [dragon] (名) ① dragon ② dragon as imperial symbol ③ a large extinct reptile (dinosaur).

At present, the earliest Chinese dragon-shaped pattern comes from the Xinghaiwa culture Zhahai site about 8,000 years ago. It is located in Aohan, Inner Mongolia, near Fuxin, Liaoning. It is a pile of red-brown stones. Long, nearly 20 meters in length, nearly two meters wide, in the village center of the site within the square. Recently discovered with the seashells for the dragon, there are 6400 years of history.
Fu Wei, Nu Wa, who are the first dragon body (or the snake who first), also known as the "Dragon ancestors." "Legend of the Chinese human ancestor Fu Xi, The ancestor of the Chinese Yan Emperor, the Yellow Emperor, the legendary and the dragon has a close relationship, "Dragon Emperor Xuanyuan's dragon figure out of the river" ( "bamboo secretary"), according to legend Yan Di for his mother "Dragon" After the red dragon. Thus the Chinese call themselves "descendants of the dragon."
Unlike the western dragon, the dragon of East Asia is a symbol of sacred auspiciousness. China's ancient totem, there are many dragon sculptures are clouds, flying nine days of the image. This is related to some folklore, which spread wide there are two: one argument is the dragon was originally a snake on the ground, after a long, long time to collect the world aura and the essence of the sun and the moon, transformed into Jiao, Jiao and after Transformation is the only dragon, only in charge of wind and rain and flying ability; another argument is that the ancient sea has a door, called the Dragon Gate. The gantry is large, large enough to see the whole picture. One day, a carp swim to the gantry was blocked, the carp wanted to skip the Dragon Gate to swim to other places. After numerous jumps, carp finally skip the gantry, but this time the carp has become another image, long body covered with scales, the head has two antlers as the angle, and grow 4 legs , As well as the eagle claw, on the ability to pass the sky, the next can submarine, and the ability to do anything they want. This legend was later turned into a "fishy goal" story.

Legend of the dragon can be hidden significantly, when the immortal spring, autumn when the potential Yuan. But also Xing Yu-induced rain and clouds. After the dragon became a symbol of imperial power, the emperor also known as the real dragon emperor, the palace is also used to decorate the dragon objects. Dragon was the ancestors of the Chinese ancestors worship, generally respect is still "dragon."