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The Dragon King, also known as the Dragon God, is a Chinese water and weather god. He is regarded as the dispenser of rain, commanding over all bodies of water. He is the collective personification of the ancient concept of the lóng in Chinese culture. There are also the cosmological "Dragon Kings of the Four Seas " (四海龍王; Sihai Longwang).
Ao Guang. Diorama at Haw Par Villa, Singapore, depicting the battle between the Eight Immortals and the forces of Ao Guang. Ao Guang (Chinese: 敖光; pinyin: Áo Guāng; or traditional Chinese: 敖廣; simplified Chinese: 敖广; pinyin: Áo Guǎng[a]) is the Dragon King of the East Sea in Chinese folklore. He featured prominently in different ...
Ao Run. The Dragon Kings of the Four Seas at the Great Temple of Mazu in Tainan. Ao Run (敖闰) or Ao Ji (敖吉), is the Dragon King of the West Sea (西海龙王, Xīhǎi Lóngwáng) and one of the Dragon Kings of the Four Seas in Chinese religion and Korean mythology. [1] As an important belief in Chinese folk religion, Four Dragon King ...
Qianlong era bixi near Marco Polo Bridge, Beijing. The nine sons of the dragon are Chinese dragons who are the mythological sons of the Dragon King. There are many variations in the different descriptions of the nine sons, including in basic facts like their names, but all versions state that there are nine.
Nezha. Nezha (哪吒) is a protection deity in Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese folk religion. His official Taoist name is "Marshal of the Central Altar" (中壇元帥). He was then given the title "Third Lotus Prince" (蓮花三太子) after he became a deity.
"The Dragon King's Daughter" (tr. John Minford) in Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations, Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty (Columbia University Press, 2000) "The Tale of the Supernatural Marriage at Dongting" (tr. Meghan Cai) in Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader, Volume 2 (World Scientific, 2016)
The White Dragon Horse, known as Bai Long Ma (Chinese: 白龍馬; pinyin: Bái Lóng Mǎ; lit. 'White Dragon Horse'), and Yu Long (Chinese: 玉龍; pinyin: Yù Lóng; lit. 'Jade Dragon'), in Chinese, is one of the main characters in the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West. [1] He is Tang Sanzang 's steed who later became one of the ...
Yulong, the Dragon King of the West Sea in the Chinese classical novel Journey to the West, becomes a naga after completing his journey with Xuanzang; Bakunawa, a dragon in Philippine mythology that is often represented as a gigantic sea serpent.