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The dragon Chinese is a fantastic creature. A long time a powerful symbol to can favorable in folklore and the Chinese art, it is the personification of the yang concept and partner with the climate and water as the one that brings rain.

Legend of the yellow emperor

The legend indicates that it is Huang Di (yellow Emperor) used a snake for his blazon. Every time that he conquered a new tribe he added hiss enemy's emblem to his. Huang Di was immortalized in a dragon who decorated as his blazon. What explains for the Chinese dragon has the corp of a snake;  the scales and the tail of a fish;  the woods of a deer;  the face of a qilin (a creature mythical kind deer with fire everywhere on his corp);  and two pairs of the greenhouses of the eagles;  and the eyes of a demon. They fly in the sky in the middle of the clouds. Nearly all pictures of the Chinese dragons represent them playing with a pearl of fire. One supposes that it is this last that gives them their power and permits them to go up to the paradise.

Also, as the Chinese consider Huang Di as their ancestor, they refer to them even sometimes as "the descendants of the dragons". Legend of the carp

Another legend says that the carps capable some dragons will become to jump the door of dragon above. Several fall of water and cascades in China are considered as the places of the dragon doors. This legend is an allegory of the conduct and efforts to overcome the obstacles.

The toes of dragon

The Chinese imperial dragons have five toes to every foot;  the Korean and Indonesian dragons have four and the Japanese three of it. To explain this phenomenon the Chinese legend specifies that although the dragons are the farthest Chinese to the origin that they went they lost their toes and to explain that they only exist in these countries if they had been farther they would not have had a toe anymore. The Japanese legend is inverse that the dragons first appeared there and that they had more toes as they moved away t that farther they would have had too many fingers to walk correctly. In Korea and in Indonesia the two explanations apply according to the direction where journey the dragon.

Another interpretation:  according to several sources the Chinese dragons had four toes - but the imperial dragon had five of them. It was a major infringement for another that the emperor to use the symbol of the dragon in five greenhouses.