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Dragon robes, also known as gunlongpao (simplified Chinese: 袞龙袍; traditional Chinese: 袞龍袍; pinyin: gǔn lóng páo; hangul: 곤룡포) or longpao for short, is a form of everyday clothing which had a Chinese dragon, called long (龍), [2] as the main decoration; it was worn by the emperors of China.
The first emperor of Sui, Emperor Gaozu, would wear tongtianfu on grand occasions, gunyi (衮衣; dragon robe) on suburban rites and visits to ancestral temple. [104] He also set the colour red as the authoritative colour of the court imperial robes; this included the clothing of emperors and the ceremonial clothing of the princes. [105]
Taoists have a 'scarlet gown' (絳袍) which is made of a large square-shaped cloak sewn at the hem to create very long deep sleeves used in very formal rituals. [25] They are often scarlet or crimson in colour with wide edging and embroidered with intricate symbols and motifs such as the eight trigrams and the yin and yang Taiji symbol.
In the German-language handover document of the imperial regalia to King Charles IV from 1350, the mantle is mentioned with the following description: A red cloak of St. Charles with two robes of good stone, pearls and gold. This shows that both the coat and the imperial crown were wrongly attributed to Charlemagne, who was canonized in 1165.
It broke in battle with Odin but was later reforged by Sigmund's son Sigurd who used it to slay the dragon Fafnir. After being reforged, it could cleave an anvil in half. Hǫfuð, the sword of Heimdallr, the guardian of the Bifröst bridge. Hrotti, part of Fafnir's treasure, which Sigurd took after he slew the dragon.
The mang robe is a garment with an image close to a dragon, similar to the dragon robe of the top authority (the emperor), except for the deduction of one claw. After the Ming dynasty, it was expressed that a long (lit. ' Chinese dragon ') would be demoted to a mang (lit. ' python ') if it lost one of its claw. [2]
House of the Dragon season 2, episode 2 picked up right where episode 1 left off on Sunday night -- with the Red Keep in utter chaos after the horrific beheading of Jaehaerys Targaryen. Spoilers ...
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – Dragonborn is the third and final add-on for the action role-playing open world video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.It was developed by Bethesda Game Studios and released by Bethesda Softworks on the Xbox Live Marketplace on December 4, 2012.