dragons lay their eggs on the eastern banks of mountain streams, rivers or lakes, usually need a thousand years because it opens up an egg and the event is always accompanied by a storm. When the first crack appears in an egg, both parents burst into loud cries the cry of the father stirs the winds, while the mother calms them. So here, once again, the balance of yin and yang. But when the egg hatches and the baby is completely born, storms shake the ground. Even the full maturation of a dragon is a long quest ion, which requires more than three thousand years, through several stages: first the child has the appearance of a water snake, then in fifty years develops a head of carp, making a Kiao. During the thousand years that followed became more and more like a fish: it is now as big as a carp, but his appearance is that of a dragon has four little legs, a long tail ', the beard and four claws each leg, but has the ear is deaf and is called Kiao Leng. In another five years developing the horns, which are used to perform a function that is due
hearing, and called Kioh Lung, the dragon most common. After another thousand years they will reach the wings and the creature called Lung Ying. According to legends, the female usually gives the light dragon nine children (number mystical importance to the East) nested, each with specific characters and personalities, which ispiranole different representations. There is no agreement on their names, but according to most of the testimonials on the cornices of the palaces are the bold, adventurous Hsien Hao, who loves to climb; often you see a picture of a dragon on the cover pages of the times also because it says that these animals are always alert. Similarly, images of dragons are placed on the pinnacles, especially in the form of his brother Chi Wen, who delights to contemplate the distances. On the doors you find the dragon Jiao, tight-lipped as the valves of a mussel, and on the piers and arches of the bridges, although all the dragons worship water, it is more commonly Pa Hsia, who is an excellent swimmer. The Picture of Suan I, fond of smoke and fire, is on the legs of incense burners, where his brother Pi Hsi, sturdy pack animal, and decorate the baskets holding the bases of the monuments. On the handles of swords and knives is Ya Tzu, warlike and valiant warrior, while Pu Lao, a lover of the sounds and loud screamer when attacked, is represented on the bells, and music lover Chiu Niu on stringed musical instruments. Finally, we find figures of dragons on stone tablets and books, because they love literature and study, on the gates of prisons, because they intrigue the quarrels and troubles, and on the throne of Buddha, for their propensity to rest.
