The Chinese Dragon

10 pages in this part of Mythical Monsters.

We now approach the consideration of a country in which the belief in the existence of the dragon is thoroughly woven into the life of the…

The Yih King is one of those books specially excepted from the general destruction of the books. References in it to the dragon are not…

Mr. Legge adds, "The Emperor referred them to the principal scholars in the service of the Government, to adjust the tables in order…

In the former we find only incidental references to either of these, such as, "XIV. The Emperor K'ung-kea. In his first year (в.c. 1611)…

THE "SHAN HAI KING" OR CLASSIC OF MOUNTAIN AND SEAS. Short notices of this remarkable work are given by Mr. Alexander Wylie* and Dr…

I notice that Retzoch, in his designs to illustrate Schiller's poem, "The Fight with the Dragon," makes the monster have only two…

There is a short reference to the Ying Lung or winged dragon; it is as follows :- "In the north-east corner of the Great Desert are…

G FIG. 65.--PING I (ICY EXTERMINATOR), A RIVER DIVINITY (?). From within the Sea and North. (Shan Hai King.) ७ MYTHICAL MONSTERS.

The annexed wood-cuts (Figs. 56, 57) of Ping I (Icy exterminator), and the Emperor K'i (в.c. 2197), each in cars, driving two dragons, are…

Mu, made up of extracts from upwards of eight hundred preceding authors, and including three volumes of illustrations by Li Shechin, of the…