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y things which are connected with the king or royalty contain the word long, such as long yan which means the appearance of the emperor, long ti which means the body of the emperor and long pao which means the robe for the emperor. Besides, long is supposed to bring good luck as an auspicious creature. In the phrase wang zi cheng long，long means a successful person with pretige.
In Modern Chinese Dictionary，the original meaning of long is a kind of a supernatural animal, which carries horns and whiskers and only has one head. It can make rain as wanted in legend. The second meaning 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. In the other words, long is the head of changeable water animals, which is helpful for everything. So people awe and admire it as totem. In lunar calendar, Feb. 2nd is a traditional festival of long. On this day, people pray 本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供spring rain and good harvest.
 In Modern Chinese Dictionary, it also refers to the emperor in the feudal society of china. It is recorded before Jie Zitui , who is a Chinese historical person, left Jin Dynasty, he wrote a poem,“有龙于飞，周遍天下……龙返其乡，得其处所。”Long in this poem represents emperor.
Long can be regarded as imagery of heroes and wise persons. There is a record in the old text The Stories of Three Countries，which says that “徐庶见先主，先主器之，诸先生曰：‘诸葛孔明者，卧龙也，先主岂愿见乎？’” Here, Xu Shu regarded Zhuge Liang as latent long，which means that Zhuge Liang ’s wisdom and talent were buried. Besides, there is another phrase long pan feng yi in ancient records to demonstrate wise persons who are not known by most people. Long in the ancient times also meant noble steed.

In modern Chinese, long in some phrases has lost its original meaning, and got meanings of trope. Such as, the phrase shui long tou, which looks like long. The phrase yi tiao long is not a real long, but series of good methods or ways. Besides, long juan feng and che shui ma long all mean trope.

B. Dragon in Western Countries
The dragon is often a s本论文由英语论文网www.51lunwen.org整理提供ymbol of devil to westerners. They regard the dragon as a fierce monster that can destroy some other things. Therefore, in their opinion, it can make many disasters. There are several stories of saints or heroes dealing with the struggles against such monsters, which in most cases are killed in the end. The most notable story perhaps is the story of Beowulf. An Anglo-Saxon epic around the year of 700A.D, tells how the hero Beowulf defeats a monster called Grandel, but he is eventually mortally wounded during the process of slaying a dragon.（Li Zuowen, page 85,2005）
Dragon is the symbol of devil, which can be seen in many western films. For example, in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, there is a cruel character—dragon. Most people know that Harry Potter is a righteous boy. In this movie, he fights against the dragon to stop it from destroying the world. In another cartoon film Shrek the Third, whose end is very different from other similar films, there is a very cruel dragon named Boss. In the film Boss always hurts others. There is another film about dragon---Region of Fire. In this movie, after the dragon was waked by others, he begins to destroy the world for a long time. Many people are killed by him. In the film Dragon Heart, because the figure has a half of heat from dragon, he beco本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。