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 | | The Chinese dragon, generally depicted as a four-legged animal with a scaled, snakelike body, horns, claws, and large, demonic eyes, the Chinese dragon or 'lung' was considered the king of animals, and the dragon image was appropriated by Chinese emperors as a sacred symbol of imperial power. |
 | | Dragons lay an egg at a time and it takes 1,000 years to hatch and another 1,500 years for the dragon to be full-grown. |
 | | According to ancient texts the dragon was a creature with a pair of antlers like the one of a deer, a camel head, the eyes of a hare, and the neck of a serpent. |
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