Are Asian Dragons Are Lucky?

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The dragon has little similarities with the Basilisks other than they are both reptilian creatures and that both have poisonous defenses. The Basilisk has a poisonous breath while the dragon has a venomous bite. “Then the wound dealt by the ground-burner earlier began to scald and swell; Beowulf discovered deadly poison suppurating inside him,” (Beowulf, 2712-2715). The difference between them is that the dragon is much wiser and personifies greed which the Basilisk does not.

Chinese culture is known for their amazing myths, dragons are China's number one symbol and model of their country

espite their small size, sea dragons are carnivorous animals and therefore have a purely meat-based diet. The sea dragon uses its pipe-like snout to suck its prey into its oddly tooth-less mouth. Sea dragons hunt crustaceans, plankton, shrimp and even small fish, using their camouflage to their advantage. Sea dragons have numerous natural predators in the south and western coastal waters of Australia but are rarely even spotted to the elaborate camouflage of the sea dragon. Those few sea dragons that are unlucky enough to be found, are usually spotted by large fish. As with sea horses, it is the male sea dragon who care for the eggs once they have been laid by the female. The female lays around 250 eggs onto the long tail of the male sea horse.

At the core of any nation’s culture are its religious beliefs. In China there are the “Three Jewels” Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, as described in Lopez (1996). There are small numbers of people practicing other religions such as Christianity and Islam, but these are the three dominant beliefs of the region. While they are separate in content, they have coexisted for several thousand years. Lopez (1996) goes on to say, “Historical precedent and popular parlance attest to the importance of this threefold division for understanding Chinese culture…Buddhism is the sun, Daoism the moon, and Confucianism the five planets…suggesting that although they remain separate, they also coexist as equally indispensable phenomena of the natural world.” Each belief system stands alone, and at the same time needs the other(s).

The dragon in Chinese was a benevolent creature with powers to bring floods, rain, and even hurricanes to a land. Besides this ability, the dragon signified strength, good luck and power. Kings took on the symbolism of the Dragon as hopping to bring good fortune to their domain. The Chinese dragon has transformed from an imaginary prodigy that representing the Chinese people's pioneering unrelenting spirit of keeping pace. Is the dragon prevailing in China, but it's also well liked among the Chinese people living around the world; it has become an important representation of China and Chinese culture.

In this world, in the presence of a lie-consuming dragon, lies take the form of monsters. The size of said monsters depend on the severity of the lie being told, and how badly the liar doesn’t want to be found out. But this doesn’t apply to all dragons, however. Dragons come into existence to fulfill the need or a strong wish of a human. A human who has seen all of their loved ones die and firmly wishes for solace will bring about an immortal dragon. A human who has been trapped all their life will bring about a dragon with powers of intangibility. It’s not a hard concept to grasp, really.

The Yin Yang symbol also commonly referred to as the Tai-Chi symbol is easily thought of in today’s popular culture as a reference to the Sun (yang) the moon (yin) and the universe. Allen Tsai’s article provides some insight into the origins of the symbol itself, the meaning behind the curvature of the symbol, and how the Chinese symbol has found a place in popular culture. Allen Tsai goes into explicit detail on how the Chinese developed a surprising understanding of the stars and how they used the constellations and the sun to determine the seasons, the length of a calendar year and the time of the earths rotation around the sun. Tsai explains how the symbol is at its basic meaning a “Chinese representation of the entire celestial

Dragon have been predominant in many cultures for centuries. Its function may differ culture to culture but its identity has become a universal symbol; we all have the dragon in common. Dragons are everywhere and appear to be the most documented creature in all of ancient history, second to that of the human being (Isaacs 19). These magnificent creatures like any other monster have an origin. Scholars, however, debate the origin of the dragon pointing to several aspects; diffusion and conception from other biological organisms. Is there a definite origin of the dragon? This debate has sparked another simply because it appears that the dragon’s identity

These powers make dragons a symbol of strength and power among the Chinese people, enough so that

There was a song singing, “In ancient east there is a dragon/ its name is China/ in ancient east there was a group people/ they are all descendants of Dragon” (Wang). The dragon can fly to wherever it wants so that it decided to take a rest in the street of Bellaire in Houston of the United States in 1870. The dragon left its 250 descendants here and formed a so-called Chinatown here. At the beginning, Chinese people did not have the sense of local American dream because of language problems and lack of knowledge. They could not interact with local Americans so well based on their culture and living habits; they had no ideas how to talk to Americans. Fortunately, by 1980, its population reached more than 20,000 and its economics went much

In China, there are some things that represent good luck and bad luck.Now, I will list the things I know as follows.

Dragons – mythological creature or reality? On a set of dry and volcanic islands off the coast of Asia, the lines of dragon myth and reality are blurred. These Indonesian islands where temperatures can soar to 95 degrees Fahrenheit and 70% humidity is the home to an apex predator with the size, strength, and long, yellow forked tongue reminiscent of creatures of legendary tales (Freedman, 2008). The Komodo dragon is not just the world’s largest lizard, it is also one the of deadliest lizards on Earth (Freedman, 2008).

Dragons in Asia are considered lucky because they are wise and powerful and people respect the dragon because they breathe clouds, move the season, and control the water of rivers lakes and seas. They are linked with the Yang( 10 facts about Chinese dragons). On Asia dragon was part of the culture for more than 4,000 years and made a huge impact on culture because they believed the dragon's were real and they also worshiped them as well. In China, Japan, and Korea they believed that dragons where real and powerful and the people gave them respect because they think that the dragon's created everything(Asian Dragons). One interesting fact about an Asian dragon is that the people believed that they were more a s serpent type creature, but

Last month, I had the chance to visit the San Diego Zoo, and saw a lot of animals including the giant pandas. While most of the tourists would only stand for a few moments in front of the other animal, many of them linger before the two giant pandas, Baiyun and Xiaoliwu. In fact, it was the only exhibit that we had to wait in a line to see, despite the zoo not being all that busy. It’s evident that pandas are extremely popular animals, not only because of its unique fur coat color, but also because how rare the animal is; they are almost verging on the edge of extinction. According to John Vidal in his article, the two pandas at Edinburgh has increase the zoo numbers “by four million people in two years” (Vidal) This, however, raises many different questions. Why are the giant pandas becoming endangered? Is there anything that we humans are doing to help? More importantly, should we help the giant pandas if they have truly become a species that cannot survive on their own in the wild? I believe that the giant pandas have certain traits that are accelerating their extinction, but we have the responsibility to give the pandas our help to avoid that disaster, because we are a community and everything in the communities has its own functions; we cannot decide for the land or the animals whether or not to end the existence of one species.