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day's cross-cultural communication is more and more frequently. If these differences are still not be noticed or paid no attention to, instead make ‘long’ and dragon simply equated, would possibly make the  process of communication misunderstandings between the two sides in the cross-cultural communications. Moreover, bring all kinds of communication difficulties and obstacles.
 
However, people have begun to notice the misunderstandings caused by the incorrect translations. Especially culture-loaded words, which stand for every nation’s culture and spirit, are translated carelessly. Then misunderstandings spread and expand.
 
‘Long’ is Chinese nation's most important sacred object, which is extremely different from dragon--a huge bloodthirsty monster. ‘Long’ as a symbol of Chinese culture, in English-Chinese or Chinese-English translation should be accurately expressed, correctly used, in order to maintain national culture connotation and cultural heritage to make more positive understanding of Chinese ‘long’ and eliminate errors before misunderstanding.
 
2. Chinese ‘long’ and Western ‘dragon’
 
2.1 ‘Long’ in China
 
In ancient China, there are many origins about ‘long’, such as lizard, crocodile and dinosaur and so on. ‘Long’ is regarded as totem in ancient times. Chinese people in ancient times admired ‘long’ though it is just an imaginary animal in the legend. 
 
Through the development of more than 8,000 years, ‘long’ has compromised a variety of animal features and been given a strong vitality in the formation process of the Chinese culture. In Modern Chinese Dictionary，the original meaning of ‘long’ is a kind of a supernatural animal, which carries horns and whiskers. It can make rain as wanted in legend. It is the head of animals, which can be black or bright, can be slender or coarse, can be short or long, flying to the sky in spring, and diving in the sea in autumn. ‘Long’ is an immortal, brew storms on rivers and seas, summon wind and call for rain, imbued with supreme heroism infinite magical powers. The image of ‘long’ is to draw on the many animal images in the most amazing parts. It highlights the creative spirit and harmony cultural philosophy that reflects   the Chinese ancestors’ desire to harness the natural and the national flourish, that is use the largest integrated resort to seek the great harmony goal.【王东，中国龙的新发现 M 背景：北京大学出版社，2000：P221】
 
‘Long’ as the totem of the China, has deeply permeated all aspects of social life in China, as well as occupies an exceptionally important part in the traditional Chinese culture. ‘Long’ has been given the meaning about divine, supreme, good luck, etc. Since the Tang Dynasty, ‘long’ has become a symbol of the emperor, and been closely linked. Emperor’s clothes is called ‘ long pao’, the children of emperor are called ‘long zi’, ‘long ti’ is the body of emperor. In addition, ‘long’ is also compared to the talented people and even the hero.【纪德裕，汉字拾取【M】上海：复旦大学出版社1997.p79】Zhuge Liang, a synonym for wisdom, has been as latent ‘long which means that Zhuge Liang ’s wisdom and talent were buried’. In the phrase ‘cheng long kuai xu’, ‘long’ means a fine son-in-law. Moreover, an expectation for the children to get on is ‘wang zi cheng long’
 
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