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They traditionally symbolize potent and auspicious powers, particularly control over water, rainfall, typhoons, and floods. The dragon is also a symbol of power, strength, and good luck for people who are worthy of it in East Asian culture.

Chinese dragons are powerful and benevolent symbols in Chinese culture, with supposed control over watery phenomenon, e.g. summoning rain during a drought. Dragons are everywhere in China — in legends, festivals, astrology, art, names, and idioms.

Dragons are seen as lucky and good — quite different to the evil, dangerous, fire-breathing dragons of most Western stories.

• The Dragon is one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs.
•  Emperors in ancient China were identified as the sons of dragons. And, at that time, ordinary people were not allowed to have items with pictures of dragons on them.
• Chinese dragons are symbolic of being lucky, propitious, powerful, and noble; not as monsters as they are portrayed in Western stories.
• Most Chinese dragons’ pictures have long bodies like snakes and sharp claws like hawks — less like dinosaurs than Western dragons..
• Chinese dragons live at the bottom of seas, rivers, lakes, or anywhere with water.