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							Chinese Dragon
        Ke Liu
  ESL Presentation
   14th, 11, 2002
   What is a
Chinese Dragon?
Chinese Character:
         Today’s Dragons
• OX Face
• Tiger Teeth
• Pig Hair
• Beer Horns
• Horse Ears
      Today’s Dragons (cont’):
•   Goat Goatee
•   Snake Body
•   Falcon Claws
•   Fish Mustache
    and Surface
Today’s Dragons (cont’)
Today’s Dragons (cont’)
The first Dragon
looks the same
as it today?
       About 3000 years ago:
   (Xia Dynasty – Qin Dynasty, 2100 BC ? – 226 BC)

• Dog Body
• Falcon Claws
• Walking on
  ground
        About 2000 years ago:
          (Han Dynasty, 206 BC – 220 AD)

•   Snake Body
•   Pig Hair
•   Tiger Claws
•   Flying up to
    Sky
     About 1500 years ago:
        (Tang Dynasty, 618 AD – 907 AD)

• OX Face
• Tiger Teeth
• Fish
  Mustache
  and surface
• Flying in
  Clouds
 About 1500 years ago (cont’)
          (Tang Dynasty, 618 AD – 907 AD)

• Different kinds of
  dragons appeared
      About 1000 years ago:
        (Song Dynasty, 947 AD – 1279 AD)

• Falcon Claws
• Beer Horns
      About 500 years ago:
       (Ming Dynasty, 1368 AD – 1644 AD )

• Goat Goatee
• Horse Ears
          Final Version:
      (Qing Dynasty, 1644 AD – 1912 AD)

• Paramount
  God
• Only the
  Emperor
  can use
  dragon
  symbols
Today:
Today (cont’)
Some Artwork about Dragon
Thank You !