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　Dragons are not only beautiful legendary creatures, but also have different gestures. Therefore, Chinese people love to put different dragon designs on things based on their shapes. The following are the most common kinds of dragon's gestures and the pictures we took to show you where they apprear in our life.

 

 

Dragon's nine sons: Different dragon desgins on different daily appliances.

　　It's said that the dragon have nine sons. Each of them has different interests. But actually, the images of "nine sons" are created by people in the past because they wanted to use different dragon designs to decorate their daily appliances. Some of them don't look like dragons because their images are integarted with other animals'. The following slideshow tells you the interests of these nine dragon's sons and where you can find them.

(Picture citation: the book "Chinese dragon encyclopaedia ")