Chapter 24 The Third Cold Dragon with Scales

October 29, 2008 at 22:42 Wu Cheng'en, a great novelist in the 16th century, mentioned a creature named Lenglong in his works.This is a story about a monk named Xuanzang who traveled to North India to seek Dharma in the middle of the seventh century AD. The team of international students led by the monk encountered trouble when passing through a city called Chechi.Three warlocks challenged them.One of the magicians, surnamed Yang, asked Xuanzang to bathe in scalding hot oil like himself.But the latter's senior aide discovered that while the warlock was taking a bath, the oil being heated was cold.He quickly found out the truth.It turned out that the warlock owned an animal named Cold Dragon.He put the cold dragon in the oil pan to keep the oil at a suitable temperature.Xuanzang managed to capture Lenglong.The temperature of the oil rose suddenly, and the warlock surnamed Yang died as a result.

A later literature researcher Wang Yinzhi pointed out that this kind of cold dragon has detailed clues to follow in the cultural genealogy of the empire.In the note "Yunxi Youyi" in the late Tang Dynasty, it was mentioned that some areas of the Tang Empire raised cold dragons and presented them to the emperor as a special product. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Empire was known for being kind to his brothers.Shen Wang Li Zhan benefited from this.King Shen suffered from a serious illness since he was a child.The fat on his abdomen was like a cloth bag, always hanging limply between his feet.Emperor Xuanzong sent Ji Zhou, the most famous imperial physician in the imperial court, to treat him, but to no avail.In order to facilitate movement, King Shen always wrapped the fat with wide, undyed silk fabrics and tied them firmly to his lower abdomen.In the cold winter, this device brought Shen Wang an extra warm effect, but in summer, they were so heavy that Shen Wang couldn't breathe.

Therefore, as soon as the southern provinces paid tribute to the two wonderful cold dragons, Emperor Xuanzong bestowed them on King Shen.Cold dragons are very close to humans.They are cold.Holding a cold dragon is like holding ice.King Shen wrapped them around his fat, and he no longer felt hot and painful. Duan Chengshi said that he had seen these two cold dragons in King Shen's court.Their shape is very similar to normal snakes.It is more than a foot long and the whole body is white.On the back of the head, there are reddish fleshy horns, but they are not as majestic as real dragon horns.Like other dragons, cold dragons also have four legs, but instead of scales, they are covered with cold slime.After careful observation, Duan Chengshi came to the conclusion that the weirdness of this animal is that it uses its stomach to cry.When they are in love, they will cry to each other, make a cry from their stomachs, and then squirt juice from their mouths.Therefore, their sound is very similar to hiccups.Sorrow is the most important reason for cold dragons to emit chills.When one of the two cold dragons died, Duan Chengshi watched the other dragon's mourning cause the candle's flame to solidify.

People in the Western Regions don't know about the magical products in southern China.They mistakenly believe that Lenglong can also spin silk and cocoon - spinning Lenglong's silk into cloth, you can get the southern version of the famous "Huo Huanbu".