Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Although the use of Chinese dragon as a motif has a long history, using dragon to represent the Chinese people only became popular since the 1970s. During the pre-modern dynastic periods, the dragon was often associated with the rulers of China and used as a symbol of imperial rule, and there were strict stipulations on the use of the dragon by ...
This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.
A famous legend intertwines the arrival of Prince Imseong, Empress Suiko, Prince Shōtoku, and the introduction of Myōken faith to Japan: In ancient times, during the reign of the one-hundred sixth emperor of Japan, Go-Nara-in of Chinzei there was a man named Tandai Ōuchi Tatara Ason Nii Hyōbugyō Yoshitaka.
However, the story, dubbed Con rồng cháu tiên ("Descendants of the Dragon and the Immortal"), is labeled as a truyền thuyết ("legend"), a "type of folkloric tale about historical characters and events, usually embellished with fantastical elements," [7] and is more akin to other fantastical legends, such as the story of Lê Lợi ...
Original file (829 × 1,410 pixels, file size: 15.35 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 322 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The nine sons of the dragon is a traditional name for a set of mythological creatures whose imagery is used in certain types of decorations. The concept was first mentioned by Lu Rong in the Ming Dynasty, although similar set of creatures (not necessarily nine) is recorded even earlier.
Yan Huang Zisun (Chinese: 炎黃子孫; lit. 'Descendants of Yan[di] and Huang[di]'), or descendants of Yan and Yellow Emperors, [1] is a term that represents the Chinese people and refers to an ethnocultural identity based on a common ancestry associated with a mythological origin.
There is debate whether Jesus claimed to be divine, or whether divinity was attributed to him progressively by his followers. [ 100 ] [ 101 ] Jesus did not make public claims of divinity. [ 102 ] In the first three centuries of the Christian movement, Jesus' identity and relation to God were often subjects of debate and controversy, and the ...