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The earliest known depiction of a dragon is a stylised C-shaped representation carved in jade. Found in eastern Inner Mongolia, it belonged to the Hongshan culture, which thrived between 4500 and 3000 BCE. Just as the dragon continues to be a popular subject in Chinese art, the Hongshan figure, although the first, is still probably the most well-known as it is used today in everything from company logos to posters welcoming visitors at Beijing’s international airport.The Longzhou jie or Dragon Boat Festival was originally held in honour of the poet and statesman Qu Yuan (c. 340-278 BCE). The Chu Minister of State had ended his life by jumping into the Miluo River, which was his dramatic response to being exiled following a slanderous assault on his character by a rival politician. Boats were launched to search for his body but to no avail, and so his supporters threw into the waters rice dumplings (zongzi) in his memory. To further commemorate the tragedy, a boat race was held on the river each year thereafter – a practice which then spread to other rivers across China and which soon took on the wider function of placating the rain-bringing dragon. Consequently, the boats typically have a dragon head on their prow and a tall dragon’s tail at the stern. The race is today a colourful part of the Duanwu Festival and is usually held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

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In Chinese imagery, dragons symbolize imperial rule and good fortune. The dragons of Chinese legend dwelled in distant waters, and although usually wingless, they could fly. Crucially, they brought the rain, and hence the fruits of the soil. In the 12-year Chinese zodiac, dragon years are the most auspicious.Hugely popular as the forms for puppet-costumes in New Year celebrations, boats in festive races, ornamentation on buildings, and myriad other uses, dragons remain as current a symbol in modern China as they did thousands of years ago.And much of the dragon imagery in other Asian countries, particularly Japan and Vietnam, adapts designs long ago influenced by the Chinese. But if that continuity is straightforward to trace historically — like Zen Buddhism and the Kanji script, other cultural mainstays borrowed from China — other cultural parallels are harder to explain.In addition to the medieval dragons of Europe, fabulous dragon-like monsters show up in folklore of the American Indians of the North American plains, and the Maya and Aztecs, most famously as the plumed serpent god Quetzalcoatl.lag Of BhutanPixabay
he thunder dragon on the flag of Bhutan, a small nation in the Himalayas