Dragon, as a unique cultural cohesion and accumulation of our Chinese people, has taken root and is deeply hidden in the subconscious of each of us. Not only people's daily life, birth, old age, illness and death are almost all marked with dragon culture. From the perspective of dragon culture, the aesthetic consciousness of dragon culture has penetrated into all fields and aspects of our country's social culture. Dragon, in China, is associated with everything in the world. Dragon is a symbol of power, nobility and honor in traditional Chinese culture, as well as a symbol of luck and success. The reason why the dragon has such cultural symbolic significance has a lot to do with the incomparable magical power of the dragon in legends and myths: it soars in the sky and rides the mist, chases the waves when it descends into the sea, and controls the wind and rain in the world. But more importantly, it is because of the dragon’s incomparable magical power. For thousands of years, it has often been the "exclusive patent" of Chinese slaves and the supreme ruler of feudal society. It is synonymous with imperial power. Therefore, the emperor compares himself to the "real dragon emperor", and their bodies are called "dragon bodies" and "the clothes they wear" It is called "dragon robe", the chair they sit on is called "dragon chair", the cars and boats they ride on are called "dragon chariot" and "dragon boat"... In short, everything related to their daily life is named "dragon". The privilege of being above the rest. The relationship between dragon and imperial power has a long history, starting from the time of the Yellow Emperor. In the legendary era, the Yellow Emperor, who had the blood of a dragon, once patrolled around to observe the people's sentiments. He asked people to mine the tungsten from Shoushan Mountain, and then transported it to the foot of Jingshan Mountain to cast a tripod to commemorate his glorious victory in the war against Chiyou. After a while, the tripod was finally finished. Huangdi held a celebration ceremony in Jingshan Mountain to celebrate the completion of the giant tripod. Those invited to the ceremony were not only gods from all walks of life, but also people from all over the world. Everyone wanted to see what the tripod made by the Yellow Emperor looked like. When the time came, the emperor probably unveiled it in person. A bronze tripod that was more than three feet tall and as big as a vat appeared in front of gods and humans with dazzling golden light. Everyone admired it and stepped forward to take a closer look. The tripod was engraved with A vigorous swimming dragon shuttles among auspicious clouds, surrounded by ghosts, gods and various rare birds and animals from all directions. It can be said to be various and lifelike. While the people and gods were admiring the giant cauldron and the patterns on it with reverence, suddenly the sky was covered with thick clouds, blocking the sunlight. The sky quickly became dark. Everyone thought it was going to rain, but a golden light penetrated the thick cauldron. From the cloud, a divine dragon wearing golden armor came out of the cloud. Its tail and lower body were held in the cloud, its head rested on the tripod, and its long dragon beard hung down from the tripod's feet to the ground. Huang Di understood that he had completed his mission in the world, and God sent a dragon to pick him up. He jumped up, climbed on the dragon's back, and flew back to heaven. The people in the world were reluctant to let such a virtuous and wise monarch like Huang Di go back. They pulled the dragon's beards to prevent him from leaving. As a result, many dragon beards were pulled off, but Huang Di and the dragon still left. It is said that when the dragon's beard fell on the ground, many small and slender grasses grew. People later called this grass "dragon's beard grass". Most of the famous monarchs in the legendary era had an unclear and sanctimonious relationship with dragons. When Yao was in power, there was a great famine in the world, and floods were everywhere. In order to save the people, he ordered Gun to control the floods. Gun stole the soil from the Emperor of Heaven and used "blocking" methods to control the water, but in vain. He was killed by the angry Emperor of Heaven on Yushan Mountain, where Zhulong happened to be the patron saint. The landowner in Yushan did not receive sunlight, so he relied on a candle held in Zhulong's mouth for lighting all year round, so Gun's body did not rot for three years. The Emperor of Heaven was afraid that Gun would resurrect to seek revenge on him, so he never stopped trying to prove the truth. He sent a god named "Wu Dao", probably the "axe hand" in the sky, to go down to the world with a sword to spit on Gun's corpse. , when Wu Dao cut open Gun's belly, a horned dragon suddenly emerged from it, with a pair of pointed and sharp horns. It rolled and jumped a few times on the nearby hillside, and suddenly became a big dragon. It was Gun's son - Yu. Strangely enough, after Yu was born, Gun's body rolled down Yuyuan and turned into a dragon, "raising its beard and shaking its scales, crossing the waves". Yu inherited his father's ambition and finally conquered the flood and won the respect of all people. Later, the old Shun obeyed the public opinion and abdicated the throne to Yu, and Yu became the founding monarch of the Xia Dynasty. This may also be the reason why "the emperor is a real dragon" One of the historical basis for "Emperor". Another cultural symbolic meaning of the dragon is to be outstanding and different from the ordinary. The dragon is a divine creature, incomparable to human beings, so people often call those who have noble aspirations, good behavior, great ability, ambition and achievements as "dragons". When Zhuge Liang and Ge Kongming were plowing the land in Nanyang before growing up, they called themselves Mr. Wolong compared to Guan Zhongleyi, which meant that they only had three ambitions but no talent.
In terms of its own value, the Great Wall was originally a strategic defense facility that "prepared to control others, unprepared to control others". Due to differences in perspectives and value orientations, it is natural that the connotations symbolized by the Great Wall in the minds of different people in different eras are not so consistent. The Great Wall has become the symbol and symbol of the Chinese nation, which is a modern thing. This is a symbol that was refined and forged in the bloody war of resistance against the enemy when the whole country sang "Build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood" when the Chinese nation was in the most danger. The founders of the Republic of China designated "March of the Volunteers" as the national anthem to be sung from generation to generation. UNESCO listed the Great Wall as a world key protected cultural relic. Astronauts' reports on man-made structures that can be recognized by observing the earth from a distance have a profound impact on the Chinese nation. In other words, it has another meaning.