Golden Fang

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 07:42:26 CDT 2009


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_dragon

Chinese dragons are legendary creatures in Chinese mythology and
folklore, with mythic counterparts among Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese
and Turkic dragons. In Chinese art, dragons are typically portrayed as
long, scaled, serpentine creatures with four legs. In contrast to
European dragons that are considered evil, Chinese dragons
traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly
control over water, rainfall, and floods. In yin and yang terminology,
a dragon is yang (male) and complements a yin (female) fenghuang
"Chinese phoenix".

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:57 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Obviously the fang belongs symbolically to a dragon.




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