[The China Project] Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived [The China Project] Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived
[The China Project] Not just a metaphor: Dragons of imperial China show us how people lived
The emperor, as “son of heaven,” was meant to mediate between the natural and the supernatural. When dragons were becoming visible to regular folk, as they were in the Yuan and Ming, the supernatural was bypassing its usual channels — a dangerous deviation.
