This crouching dragon collectible makes a great gift for fantasy collectors or kids.
History To the Chinese, the Imperial Dragon (Crouching Dragon) or Lung, is considered to be the primary of four benevolent spiritual animals. Having unrivaled wisdom and power the dragon symbolized the Emperors of China themselves, who were actually called dragons. Hsi, China's first emperor was said to have a dragon's tail. Shen Nung, his successor was supposed to have been fathered by a dragon. The Chinese Emperor sat on a dragon throne, rode in a dragon boat and slept in a dragon bed. Young Emperors even played with dragon toys similar to the ones offered here. To distinguish the Chinese imperial dragon from all other dragons, only the Imperial Dragon bore five claws.
